Great River Energy issues RFP seeking power supply resources
Elk River, Minn. (April 26, 2006) - Great River Energy has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for up to 300 megawatts (MW) of conventional peaking power supply resources and up to 250 MW of conventional intermediate power supply resources to be available in the 2009 and 2010 timeframes, respectively.
In the RFP, Great River Energy states it is interested in a broad spectrum of responses, from power purchase arrangements to Great River Energy ownership of specific resources. A copy of the complete Request for Proposal is available on Great River Energy’s website at: http://www.greatriverenergy.com/makingelectricity/newprojects/2006_1_gre_pkg_inter_rfp.pdf. For more information about the RFP, contact Stan Selander at 763-241-2446 or sselander@grenergy.com.
Great River Energy requested that interested parties submit pre-qualification documents by May 10, 2006. Proposals from projects meeting prequalification criteria will be due by June 9, 2006.
In addition to seeking specific amounts of peaking and intermediate resources, Great River Energy is also soliciting interest from potential developers of smaller projects that may be used as a substitute for conventional central station baseload power plants. Possible projects include combined heat and power projects and heat recovery projects for electricity production, among others.
In the meantime, Great River Energy continues negotiations with potential wind energy developers that were selected from an RFP for renewable energy last fall. Great River Energy plans to add a minimum of 100 MW of wind energy, including some Community-Based Energy Development (C-BED) projects, to its generation mix by the end of 2007. Thirty-one developers responded to the 2005 RFP with more than 50 proposals. Winning proposals will be selected by Great River Energy this summer.
Great River Energy is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative providing wholesale electric energy and related services to 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin serving 600,000 customers, or approximately 1.7 million people. For more information about Great River Energy, visit: www.GreatRiverEnergy.com.
