Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
Division 89 - COMPETITIVE BIDDING GUIDELINES
Section 860-089-0300 - Resource Ownership

Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 860-089-0300

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 12, December 1, 2024

(1) An electric company may submit or allow its affiliates to submit bids in response to the electric company's request for proposals.

(a) Electric company and affiliate bids must be treated in the same manner as other bids.

(b) Any individual who participates in the development of the RFP or the evaluation or scoring of bids on behalf of the electric company may not participate in the preparation of an electric company or affiliate bid and must be screened from that process.

(2) An electric company may propose a benchmark bid in response to its RFP to provide a potential cost-based alternative for customers. The electric company may make elements of the benchmark resource owned or secured by the electric company (e.g., site, transmission rights, or fuel arrangements) available for use in third-party bids.

(3) If benchmark bid elements secured by the electric company are not made available to all bidders, it must provide analysis explaining that decision when seeking RFP acknowledgement and recovery of the costs of the resource in rates.

(a) If electric company resources are offered and made available for use in third-party bids, then the RFP may provide for appropriate compensation of electric company resources by third-party bidders.

(b) Separate electric company affiliate bids are not subject to this section of this rule, and no information on any decision to offer the use of separate electric company affiliate-owned elements to third-parties is required to be supplied to the Commission.

(4) An electric company may consider ownership transfers within an RFP solicitation.

(5) The electric company issuing the RFP must allow independent power producers to submit bids with and without an option to renew, and may not require that bids include an option for transferring ownership of the resource.

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS Ch. 183, 756, 758, 2016 OL Ch. 28

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 756.040, 758.060, 2016 Ch. 28, Sect. 6

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