All Source Request for Offers

April 1, PG&E issued its All Source Long-Term Request for Offers Solicitation. PG&E is seeking to procure 800-1200 MW of new resources, with a preference to obtain new dispatchable, operationally flexible resources with on-line dates no later than May 2015.

PG&E is advising all Potential Participants that the posting of the Form Agreements for the Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) and the Purchase and Sale Agreement (“PSA”) will be delayed until the week of May 12. PG&E will send a separate notice when the Form Agreements have been posted to the website.

Long-Term Request For Offers Targeted Schedule

Event	Date
PG&E Issues RFO	April 1, 2008
Bidder's Conference	April 21, 2008 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Notices of Intent to Offer due	April 25, 2008
Deadline for Participants to initiate gas interconnection studies	April 28, 2008
Form Agreements Distributed	May 9, 2008
Deadline for Submissions of Bids	July 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Preliminary Discussions begin	July 21 - October 17, 2008
PG&E selects shortlist	October 20, 2008
Deadline for Participants to submit LGIP or SGIP application	October 27, 2008

Long-Term RFO Protocol and related information and data

Long-Term Request for Offers Protocol, Issued April 1, 2008 (DOC, 438 KB)
Attachments to Solicitation Protocol
- Appendix A: Cover Sheet (XLS, 36 KB) (Revised: 05-16-08)
- Appendix B: Offer Agreement (DOC, 38 KB)
- Appendix B1: Offer Agreement - Confidentiality Agreement (DOC, 45 KB)
- Appendix C: Form of Letter of Credit (DOC, 37 KB)
- Appendix C1: Request for Taxpayer ID Number (W9) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Appendix D: Notice of Intent to Offer (DOC, 42 KB)
- Appendix E: FERC Order 2004 Waiver (DOC, 28 KB) Revised: 07-07-08
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Form Agreement (DOC, 625 KB) (Revised: 07-03-08)
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Form Agreement Redline (DOC, 631 KB) (Revised: 07-03-08)
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Appendices only: pdf file (PDF, 1.9 MB) (Reposted: 07-01-08)
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Appendices only: zip files (ZIP, 1.2 MB) (Posted: 07-07-08)
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Composite as of 07-03-08 (DOC, 3.8 MB) (Repost: 07-16-08)
- Appendix F: Power Purchase Agreement - Composite as of 07-03-08 redline (DOC, 3.8 MB) (Repost: 07-16-08)
- Appendix G: Purchase and Sale Agreement - Form Agreement (DOC, 691 KB) (Released: 05-14-08)
- Appendix H1: Offer Data Form - Power Purchase only (XLS, 29 KB)
- Appendix H2: Offer Data Form - Purchase and Sale Agreement only (XLS, 36 KB)
- Appendix I1: Generation Facility Form - Non-As-Available Resources (XLS, 639 KB)(Revised: 07-07-08)
- Appendix I2: Generation Facility Form - As-Available Resources (XLS, 276 KB)
- Appendix J: Project Description (DOC, 128 KB) (Revised: 04-21-08)
- Appendix K: Credit and Finance Information (DOC, 167 KB)
- Appendix K: Table A: Financial Pro Forma Template - Construction Uses (XLS, 34 KB)
- Appendix K: Table B: Financial Pro Forma Template - Financial Projections (XLS, 31 KB) (Revised: 06-30-08)
- Appendix L: Electric Transmission Information Sheet (DOC, 96 KB)
- Appendix L1: Transmission Proxy Costs (DOC, 251 KB)
- Appendix M: Gas Interconnection Form (DOC, 31 KB)
- Appendix M1: Application for Gas Transmission Service (PDF, 192 KB)
- Appendix M2: Agreement to Perform Tariff Schedule Related Work (PDF, 21 KB)
- Appendix N1: Technical Specifications: Simple Cycle (CT) (DOC, 1.2 MB)
- Appendix N2: Technical Specifications: Combined Cycle (DOC, 1.3 MB)
- Appendix N3: Technical Specifications: Generation Operation Characteristics (DOC, 245 KB) (Revised 07-07-08)
- Appendix N4: Technical Specifications: Performance Testing Protocol (DOC, 173 KB)

Participants Workshop

PG&E held the Participants Workshop (PPT, 996 KB) on June 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). This workshop was available through the webinar only. There was an opportunity for potential participants to submit Questions via the Long-term RFO mailbox which are posted below under the Question and Answers section.

PG&E did walk through the sample form below: Sample+AppendixI1_GenFacilityInfo_NonAsAvailable_0618_SampleCC.xls (XLS, 658 KB).

Bidder's Conference

The All Source RFO Bidder's Conference was held on April 21, 2008 from 1:00 pm - 3:00 (PPT) in the auditorium at 245 Market Street in San Francisco. The All Source RFO presentation is below.

All Source RFO Conference Presentation (PPT, 3 MB)

We had approximately 90 people attend the Conference either in person or via the Genesys Meeting Center. We had several request to publish the list of attendees.

There were several questions from the attendees at the Conference as well as through the Meeting Center. The questions and answers are posted below. If you have any additional questions we encourage you to submit them via email to the All Source Long-term RFO mailbox at LTRFO@exchange.pge.com. We will be frequently updating the Questions and Answers section of this website.