Yes, the Pre-Qualification as currently posted is applicable to all RFPs. If a bidder is interested in more than one RFP, only one Pre-Qualification Application and Bid Participation Fee need to be submitted. The deadline for submission is the earliest of the due dates for the selected RFPs:

(Posted 4/2/09)

The compressed timeframe for contract execution means that as much of the contract information as possible is being collected in advance, in order to streamline contract preparation for winning bidders.

(Posted 3/31/09)

No. The bids in each procurement are considered independently.

(Posted 3/30/09)

The purpose of the pre-bid letter of credit is to assure that winning bidders will execute a binding agreement to provide the offered product. The pre-bid letter of credit will be returned to winning bidders as soon as a binding contract is executed and any required performance assurance is provided. The pre-bid letter of credit will be returned to losing bidders soon after the winning bidders are notified.

(Posted 3/26/09)

Yes, the results have been posted to the ICC website.

(Posted 4/16/09)

Submission instructions are posted on the Bidder Registration page.

(Posted 4/8/09)

The numbers in the table are the actual values that will be procured, the percentages have already been applied. See also page 3 of the Capacity RFP.

(Posted 4/8/09)

Yes. Another party may post the pre-bid ILOC for a bidder's offer as long as that party uses the final Form of Pre-Bid ILOC provided as Attachment B, which will be posted on or before Wednesday, April 8th.

(Posted 4/3/09)

Yes. All bidders must post a Pre-Bid Letter of Credit using the final Form, which will be posted on or before Wednesday, April 8th.

(Posted 4/3/09)

All bidders will be required to use the final Form of Pre-Bid Letter of Credit as posted on or before April 8th, without additional modifications. We are aware of the tight timeline to turn around the Letter of Credit, and best efforts will be made to issue the final document as early as possible, but we cannot guarantee anything earlier than April 8th. Fax submissions will be accepted on April 10th in order to meet the deadline.

(Posted 4/2/09)

Section 5.6, Bidder Registration, of the Capacity RFP requires pre-qualified bidders to provide a pre-bid irrevocable letter of credit (ILOC) in the amount of $100,000. The RFP also specifies the form, date, and validity period for the ILOC.

This requirement is consistent with the 2008 AIU Capacity RFP that was successful last year. AIU has not established a procedure or rules for accepting cash or other collateral in place of the pre-bid ILOC. The Procurement Administrator does not consider the ILOC requirement unduly burdensome for bidders. Therefore cash or other collateral cannot be provided as a substitute for the pre-bid ILOC.

(Posted 4/2/09)

It is possible that a FERC ruling on MISO’s proposal for pro rata load shedding may remove the daily resource adequacy requirement from MISO planning requirements.  However, SERC/NERC operating standards may still require the daily resource adequacy requirement.  Any ruling by FERC on this issue will be reviewed at that time for the impact on the daily resource adequacy requirement.  

(Posted 4/1/09)

The Contract Quantity must be offered into the MISO Day-Ahead Energy Market in a manner that complies with the offer requirements of a Planning Resource under Section 69 of the TEMT. The Capacity Source or any replacement Capacity will be deemed to be “Available” to Buyer on any given day if it is not experiencing an Outage at the time the Ameren Illinois System Peak occurred on that day.

If the Capacity Source is unavailable because of a planned or force outage, the Seller shall provide an Outage Notice to Buyer’s LBA, and provide notice to Buyer if seller intends to provide replacement Capacity and the specifics of the replacement Capacity during such Outage.  The Minimum Monthly Availability requirements in the Confirmation Agreement determine how the monthly Capacity Payment is adjusted based on Daily Availability during the month.

(Posted 4/1/09)

No.  MISO’s requirements for Capacity address the need for capacity from a planning perspective.  The local requirements for Capacity from SERC or the LBA address daily operating issues which is different than planning requirements.

(Posted 4/1/09)

No. The Capacity Supplier must be able to deliver capacity to the Ameren Illinois Utilities load zone.  

(Posted 4/1/09)

No. All comments will be reviewed following the April 3rd submission deadline, and final contracts will be made available to all bidders and other interested parties on or before April 8th.

(Posted 4/1/09)

The two Forms of Letter of Credit are for two different purposes. The Form of Pre-Bid Letter of Credit (RFP Attachment B) is to be used for the Letter of Credit that must be in place prior to bid submission, the purposes of which is to ensure that winning bidders sign contracts with the Ameren Illinois Utilities. The Form of Letter of Credit that is Exhibit E to the Confirmation Agreement (RFP Attachment A) will be used as Performance Assurance (as needed) following the signing of the Confirmation Agreement. Bidders are invited to submit comments to both documents (RFP Attachments A and B) prior to 5:00 pm CPT on Friday, April 3rd.

(Posted 4/1/09)

Final bids will only be accepted from 7:00 am CPT to 12:00 noon CPT on April 13th. The bid submission form (an Excel document) will, however, be available earlier and can be prepared in advance if so desired and then submitted on the Bid Date. The submission process will consist of uploading the saved Excel file to the secure procurement website.

(Posted 3/31/09)

Bidder registration materials (including the final Form of Pre-Bid Irrevocable Letter of Credit and the Bidder Registration Form) will be provided to pre-qualified bidders on or before April 8th. Bid submission materials will be available to pre-qualified bidders prior to the Bidder Practice Session on April 9th.

(Posted 3/31/09)

All bidders have the opportunity to submit comments to the Confirmation Agreement and Pre-Bid Letter of Credit. These comments will be reviewed and considered for inclusion in the final documents, which will be posted on April 8th.

(Posted 3/30/09)

Bids for each month will be evaluated independently. A price will be required for each 10-MW block bid, although more than one block can be bid at a given price. As stated in section 3.2 of the Capacity RFP: "Bidders may not offer bids with contingencies, such that acceptance of one bid is conditioned upon the acceptance or rejection of another bid." This holds true for bids within the same month and bids between different months.

(Posted 3/30/09)

The Confirmation Agreement is based on the EEI, therefore bidders do not need to have one previously in place, only the Confirmation Agreement will be needed.

(Posted 3/26/09)

Bidders may submit proposed changes to the Confirmation Agreement in redlined form. All comments will be reviewed before finalizing the Confirmation Agreement (the final document will be available on April 8th). All winning bidders will use the same Confirmation and Pre-Bid Letter of Credit, therefore no negotiation will take place outside of the comment period.

(Posted 3/26/09)

This certification will be made as part of the Bidder Registration package, it does not need to be included with the Pre-Qualification Application. Language in a form that bidders will need to sign and return.

(Posted 3/26/09)

Yes, as stated in the RFP, please submit links to the latest 10-Q, latest 10-K, and any 8-Ks filed since the last 10-K or 10-Q, whichever is most recent. Paper copies of these documents do not need to be submitted if the documents are available electronically.

(Posted 3/26/09)

Invoices will be issued shortly following RECs award notifications, they will be sent to winning bidders before the end of May, with payment due by June 30th, as stated on the Supplier Fee Form.

(Posted 5/14/09)

Yes, the results have been posted to the ICC website.

(Posted 5/7/09)

There would be no overlap of hours, as the contract states Off-Peak would be all hours in EST that are not On-Peak hours. Therefore an hour cannot be both On and Off Peak.

Since the Midwest ISO (MISO) operates its market in EST year round, this is how the Financial Swap Market was established. This is consistent with how ICE trades the same product on its exchange.

(Posted 5/4/09)

No. The ICC may accept or reject the results of the procurement sooner than 5:00 pm on May 8, 2009, at which point non-winning bids are closed. The clause highlighted is intended only to clarify that the bids only need to remain open until the ICC decision, even if it occurs sooner than 5:00 pm on May 8, 2009.

(Posted 5/4/09)

The supplier fee is preliminarily estimated to be $0.04/MWh. The final supplier fee and additional information will be posted on the Energy Bidder Registration by Monday, May 4th.

(Posted 5/1/09)

Yes, in this case, the Ameren Illinois Utilities would prefer to receive a single consolidated guaranty for both the capacity and energy contracts that would replace the capacity contract guaranty. Please see the Bidder Registration page for MSWord versions of the Form of Guaranty for bidders with both capacity and energy contracts.

(Posted 5/1/09, Revised 5/4/09)

Successful bidders for both the 2009 capacity and energy procurements can but will not be required to provide separate parent guaranties. Rather, they are encouraged to provide a single consolidated guaranty to cover all resulting capacity and energy Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts for the three Ameren Illinois Utilities. [Note that Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts also include BGS-FP Supplier Forward Contracts in effect with the AIUs after May 31, 2009.] Since the AIUs have determined a single unsecured credit limit for bidders, providing a single consolidated guaranty avoids dividing the unsecured credit amount among guaranties relating to these contracts. Having a single consolidated guaranty is also consistent with any collateral requests (margin calls) that would include both capacity and energy market exposure calculations.

(Posted 5/1/09)

The Ameren Illinois Utilities will expect any such transfer of funds by 10:00 AM on the next Business Day in the relevant time zone.

(Posted 5/1/09)

Please see the Bidder Registration page for MSWord versions of the Form of Guaranty for bidders with various combinations of BGS, capacity and energy contracts that have the information for the "Guaranteed Party" filled in.

Please note that a single consolidated Guaranty (instead of three Guaranties) is recommended to cover the unsecured credit offered by the three Ameren Illinois Utilities.

(Posted 5/1/09, Revised 5/4/09)

Yes. Please note that successful bidders will be required to provide collateral to cover any amount by which market exposure exceeds the guaranty. Thus lowering the guaranty below the unsecured credit award may increase that bidder's collateral requirement.

(Posted 4/30/09)

Guaranties provided for successful bidders in the 2009 AIU Capacity and/or Energy Solicitations will cover both capacity and energy contracts. Thus if a successful bidder provided cash or a letter of credit as collateral for capacity contracts and is awarded any energy contracts, that bidder may put a guaranty in place to cover both contracts and AIU will return any collateral amounts, provided that any market exposure calculated at that point is less than the guaranty, i.e. additional collateral is not required.

(Posted 4/30/09)

The monetary value for the monthly settlement will be determined by summing the hourly products of the difference between the Fixed Price and the Floating Price times the MW quantity for each hour in the appropriate calendar month. The Fixed Price will be provided from the terms of the ISDA Confirmation Letter and the hourly Float Price can currently be obtained from the Midwest ISO webpage under the "Market Info" tab.

(Posted 4/30/09)

As stated in section 4.1 of the RFP, the products will be divided between the three Ameren Illinois Utilities as follows: 50% to AmerenIP, 33% to AmerenCIPS, and 17% to AmerenCILCO.

(Posted 4/29/09)

Consistent with paragraph 5.5 of the RFP for Standard Wholesale Energy Products, an unsecured credit limit (collateral threshold) has been determined for each bidder or its designated guarantor. A bidder's guarantor may provide a guaranty in any amount it chooses, provided, however, the Ameren Illinois Utilities (AIUs) will assign a value to a guaranty only up to the unsecured credit limit determined for that guarantor. The bidder will be required to post cash or letter of credit to cover amounts of calculated exposure that exceed the lower of (i) the unsecured credit limit specified by the guaranty or (ii) the guarantor's credit limit.

(Posted 4/29/09)

The Fixed Price Customer Supply Contract concept attempts to link the 2009 capacity RFP and 2009 energy RFP contracts (and any other contracts designated as Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts) through cross default (see Section 1(j) of the form agreement), close-out netting (see Section 1(i) of the form agreement) and collateral netting (see Section 8(a) of the form agreement and Total Exposure Amount discussion below). In this way, the credit exposure and default risk of both parties under Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts is mitigated to some degree.

As discussed above, the Total Exposure Amount is the method of providing for collateral netting across all Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts to allow for more efficient use of collateral and of credit limits. For the Confirmation Letter, the normal definition of “Exposure” applies. For other Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts, however, “exposure” is defined pursuant to the particular Fixed Price Customer Supply Contract and will apply and be netted with the Confirmation Letter “Exposure” to determine the Total Exposure Amount applicable across all Fixed Price Customer Supply Contracts.

(Posted 4/29/09)

The structure of the Energy RFP contract is a long form confirmation; meaning that all transactions between a bidder and a utility will be placed into Table 1 and will be governed by this single document. The long form confirmation incorporates the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement and 1994 ISDA Credit Support Annex. This structure is different from a master agreement with different confirmations underneath it, but functionally works in the same way by having all transactions and legal documents act as a single agreement; the long form confirmation, though, is one document with only one signature block.

(Posted 4/29/09)

The monetary value for the monthly settlement will be the determined by summing the hourly differences between the Fixed Price and the Floating Price for the appropriate calendar month. The Fixed Price will be provided from the terms of the ISDA Confirmation Letter and the hourly Float Price can currently be obtained from the Midwest ISO webpage under the "Market Info" tab.

(Posted 4/29/09)

The ICC currently has Special Open Meetings scheduled for Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:30 am and Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:30 am with the Energy RFP results on the agenda.

(Posted 4/28/09)

Each bidder's total collateral threshold under the Ameren Illinois Utilities Capacity and Energy RFPs is consistent with the ComEd Standard Products RFP. The values in the individual contracts will be different because the collateral threshold is divided over three utilities, but the total amount is the same.

(Posted 4/28/09)

Winning energy bidders will execute three contracts, one with each Ameren Illinois Utility.

(Posted 4/28/09)

The Bidder Registration Form and Form of Pre-Bid Letter of Credit, along with submission instructions for both are now posted on the Energy Bidder Registration page. Bid submission materials are also available. If you are affiliated with a pre-qualified bidder but do not have the password to access the page, please contact aiurfp@levitan.com.

(Posted 4/28/09)

Information regarding submission and terms of the pre-bid letter of credit can be found on the Energy Bidder Registration page. If you are affiliated with a pre-qualified bidder but do not have the password to access the page, please contact aiurfp@levitan.com.

(Posted 4/24/09)

Winning bidders will have the option to provide either a single guaranty covering all three Ameren Illinois Utilities or three separate guaranties, one for each transaction. The Ameren Illinois Utilities' credit personnel will work with winning bidders following award notifications to answer any bidder-specific questions.

(Posted 4/22/09)

Yes; the total amount of unsecured credit offered to affiliated bidders will be limited to the maximum of $80 million of unsecured credit that could be offered to any single bidder. This maximum limit will be applied regardless of whether the affiliated bidders rely on a parent company guarantee. If the total of the unsecured credit amounts calculated for the affiliated bidders exceeds the $80 million maximum, then the $80 million of unsecured credit will be divided among the affiliated bidders pro rata with the unsecured credit amounts calculated for the individual affiliated bidders.

(Posted 4/21/09)

As stated in the RFP, the Ameren Illinois Utilities will enter into binding contracts within three days after the ICC decision approving the results of the procurement event. Performance assurance must be provided immediately following contract execution, that is, the performance assurance will also be due within three business days of the ICC decision. Under the IPA Act, the ICC is allowed two business days to make its decision. If they take the full two days, the decision and award notifications will take place on Friday, May 8th, and contracts and associated documents will need to be executed and in place by Wednesday, May 13th. If the ICC takes less time to make its decision, the notification and execution dates will be moved up accordingly.

(Posted 4/21/09)

The Procurement Administrator and Procurement Monitor will submit their reports to the ICC on Wednesday, May 6th. The ICC will then have until Friday, May 8th, to accept or reject the results of the RFP. It is possible that the ICC will not take the whole two days, but nothing earlier than May 8th can be guaranteed. If the information is available in advance, we will notify bidders of the ICC's meeting schedule. Winning bidders will have three business days from the ICC decision to execute contracts and post performance assurance.

(Posted 4/20/09)

AMIL.BGS3 (AmerenCILCO), AMIL.BGS6 (AmerenCIPS) and AMIL.BGS9 (AmerenIP) are slices of the AIU system with the same LMPs.

(Posted 4/20/09)

Section 5.6, Bidder Registration, of the Energy RFP requires pre-qualified bidders to provide a pre-bid irrevocable letter of credit (ILOC) in the amount of $250,000. The RFP also specifies the form, date, and validity period for the ILOC.

This requirement is consistent with the 2008 AIU Energy RFP that was successful last year. The Ameren Illinois Utilities have not established a procedure or rules for accepting cash or other collateral in place of the pre-bid ILOC. The Procurement Administrator does not consider the ILOC requirement unduly burdensome for bidders. Therefore cash or other collateral cannot be provided as a substitute for the pre-bid ILOC.

(Posted 4/16/09)

The Bidder Registration form will be available on either April 24th or April 27th. The final Form of Pre-Bid Letter of Credit is scheduled to be released on or before April 29th, as stated in the RFP, although efforts will be made to release it sooner, given the tight schedule. The deadline for submitting the Pre-Bid Letter of Credit and the Bidder Registration Form has been changed to Monday, May 4th, in order to give bidders as much time as possible to secure the necessary LC. Additional instructions will be made available once the forms are issued.

(Posted 4/16/09)

There will be 48 separate products.

(Posted 4/16/09)

The volumes of energy products to be procured will be presented in the Energy RFP when it is issued on April 8th. In the interim, page 33 the IPA's Procurement Plan states the volumes anticipated to be procured in this RFP.

(Posted 3/31/09)

No. The delivery schedule is at the discretion of the bidder, as long as all the RECs are delivered by the contract deadline. See Section 3 (Deliveries and Quantity) of the REC Contract for more information.

(Posted 5/15/09)

Invoices will be issued shortly following award notifications, they will be sent to winning bidders before the end of May, with payment due by June 30th, as stated on the Supplier Fee Form.

(Posted 5/14/09)

Both PJM GATS andd M-RETS allow generators outside of their ISO service areas to register with them.

(Posted 5/13/09)

Yes, Green-e will be accepted as an alternative tracking system and Certification Authority for this procurement.

(Posted 5/13/09)

Yes, ERCOT will be accepted as an alternative tracking system and Certification Authority for this procurement.

(Posted 5/13/09)

No. Whether bids are for Unit-Specific or Unit Non-Specific RECs is not considered in the evaluation process. This information is requested with bid submission only to streamline contract preparation.

(Posted 5/13/09)

No. The only items that are needed from bidders in advance of or on bid day are:

1. Bidder Registration Form, signed and faxed (617-531-2826) or emailed by 5:00 pm on Friday 5/15
2. Pre-Bid Letter of Credit, faxed (617-531-2826) or emailed by 5:00 pm on Friday 5/15 with original to be delivered on Monday 5/18
3. Supplier Fee Form, signed and faxed (617-531-2826) or emailed by 12:00 noon on Monday 5/18
4. Completed Bid Form, submitted as described in the Bid Submission section of the Bidder Registration page

All contract execution steps will occur following award notifications to winning bidders. The Ameren Illinois Utilities will prepare partially executed contracts, which will be sent to winning bidders to sign and return.

(Posted 5/13/09)

No. The Delivery Schedule will be filled in during the contract execution phase, it does not need to be specified in advance of being awarded blocks.

(Posted 5/13/09)

No. The Bidder Registration Form and Supplier Fee Form need to be signed by a representative who can bind the company to the contents of those forms, but it can be a different person that the officer who will sign the contracts if a bidder is awarded blocks.

(Posted 5/13/09)

On bid day, bidders will need to specify the number of 5,000-REC blocks they are bidding at a given price in each of one or more REC Classes. Additionally, bidders will need to specify whether the RECs will be Unit-Specific or Unit Non-Specific. If Unit-Specific is selected, the Name, Location, EIA number, and Online Date of each facility will also need to be specified. Finally, bidders will need to indicate which Certification Authority they will be utilizing. Please see Section 6 of the REC Contract and #R21 below for additional information.

(Posted 5/12/09)

Please see Section 3 (Deliveries and Quantity) of the REC Contract for details of how the Delivery Schedule will be set.

(Posted 5/12/09)

As stated in Section 3.4 of the RECs RFP, bidders do not need to specify the source of the RECs in advance of submitting bids. However, each block must consist of RECs that have the same vintage and are only of one Class. Section 5 of the REC Contract presents two options bidders, to specify that the RECs included in the Contract are either unit-specific (Option 1) or unit non-specific (Option 2). Bidders will indicate as part of the bid submission process which Option they are choosing.

(Posted 5/12/09)

The Applicable Program for this contract is the Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard, as defined in 20 ILCS 3855/1-75(c).

(Posted 5/12/09)

A definition of Certification Authority is provided in Section 1.12 of the Master REC Agreement (attached to the REC Contract as Exhibit E). A definition of GIS, as included in the Certification Authority definition, is provided in Section 1.32 of the Master REC Agreement.

(Posted 5/12/09)

Yes, because RECs generated as early as January 1, 2009 will be accepted, a winning bidder can deliver all or a portion of their awarded quantity on the contract Effective Date, which would reduce the Remaining Contract Value that Performance Assurance would be posted to cover.

(Posted 5/11/09)

RECs must be generated by May 31, 2010 and delivered by July 15, 2010. See Section 3 (Deliveries and Quantity) of the final REC Contract for more details.

(Posted 5/11/09)

Bidders only submit one Pre-Bid LC, which covers all three Utilities.

(Posted 5/8/09)

The relevant contact information for the Pre-Bid Letter of Credit is shown in paragraph 15 of the Letter of Credit, and also is listed on the Bidder Registration page.

(Posted 5/8/09)

Winning RECs bidders will execute three contracts, one with each Ameren Illinois Utility.

(Posted 5/8/09)

The Ameren Illinois Utilities will expect any such transfer of funds by 10:00 AM on the next Business Day in the relevant time zone.

(Posted 5/8/09)

As explained in Section 11(d)(ii)(B) on page 6 of the draft REC Contract, the Performance Assurance required for this transaction "shall be equal to the positive difference, if any, between 10% of the Remaining Contract Value and the Seller’s Collateral Threshold, rounded up to the nearest $10,000, as estimated by Buyer." The budget for the total procurement is $16.6 million, therefore that would be the highest total contract value a bidder could be awarded.

(Posted 5/7/09)

The amount of unsecured credit (collateral threshold) awarded to a bidder will be determined based on the guarantor's long-term unsecured senior debt credit ratings, as shown in Table A of the 2009 Energy RFP. The amount of the parent guaranty would normally be equal to the amount of unsecured credit. The guarantor may provide a guaranty for less than that amount, but lowering the guaranty may increase that bidder's collateral requirement (as explained in #E22).

(Posted 5/1/09)

Section 5.6, Bidder Registration, of the RECs RFP requires pre-qualified bidders to provide a pre-bid irrevocable letter of credit (ILOC) in the amount of $10,000. The RFP also specifies the form, date, and validity period for the ILOC.

This requirement is consistent with the 2009 AIU RECs RFP that was successful last year. The Ameren Illinois Utilities have not established a procedure or rules for accepting cash or other collateral in place of the pre-bid ILOC. The Procurement Administrator does not consider the ILOC requirement unduly burdensome for bidders. Therefore cash or other collateral cannot be provided as a substitute for the pre-bid ILOC.

(Posted 5/1/09)

We will make every effort to turn the final pre-bid letter of credit around earlier than Monday, May 11th, although we cannot guarantee that it will available prior to the date stated in the RFP. The LC will then be due by 5:00 pm CPT on Friday, May 15th, but at that point we will only need a faxed or emailed copy of the LC, in order to give bidders as much time as possible to secure the LC, with the original to follow for delivery on Monday, May 18th.

(Posted 5/1/09)

There are two components to the Bidder Registration process, the Bidder Registration Form and the Pre-Bid Letter of Credit. The Bidder Registration Form will be available to pre-qualified bidders upon notification of pre-qualification and credit status, i.e. no later than Friday, May 8th. The final form of the Pre-Bid Letter of Credit will be available on or before Monday, May 11th. Please see #R11 above for more information about the Pre-Bid LC.

(Posted 5/1/09)

An explanation of why the bidder does not have credit ratings (e.g., privately-held company) will suffice for the pre-qualification application. If we have additional questions as part of the credit review we will follow up with the bidder.

(Posted 4/28/09)

Bidders participating in only the RECs RFP do not need to provide financial statements. The same pre-qualification application is being used for all three RFPs involved in the procurement process, and the financial statements were needed for the collateral threshold calculation under the Capacity and Energy RFPs. For the RECs RFP, collateral threshold calculation is based only on credit ratings, as described on pages 9 and 10 of the RFP.

(Posted 4/28/09)

Collateral thresholds for the RECs RFP will be determined based on bidder credit ratings as provided in the Pre-Qualification Application relative to the categories in Table A on page 10 of the RFP. Collateral thresholds for RECs contracts are independent of the thresholds calculated for the Capacity and Energy RFPs.

(Posted 4/27/09)

No. Each bidder only needs to submit a single pre-qualification package for participation in all three RFPs. Credit thresholds for the RECs RFP will be calculated separately from the threshold for the Capacity and Energy RFPs, but the same credit rating information will be used. Bidders will be notified of their RECs pre-qualification status on or before May 8th.

(Posted 4/24/09)

To have the same vintage, for purposes of this RFP, means only that the RECs must all be generated during the Vintage "Year" of January 2009 to May 2010.

(Posted 4/22/09)

As part of the Bidder Registration process, all pre-qualified bidders will be required to attest that the RECs they are bidding will be derived from eligible renewable resources from one of the six REC classes, as included in their bid. The form for making this attestation will br provided to bidders. Also as part of the registration process, we will give bidders the opportunity to declare the source of their RECs in order to streamline the contract execution process if Option 1 (Unit-Specific RECs) is the desired contract structure.

(Posted 4/21/09)

This RFP is designed to procure RECs for the June 2009 to May 2010 procurement period. RECs generated from January 2009 to May 2010 can be used to meet the procurement target quantity for that period.

(Posted 4/21/09)

The quantity of RECs to be procured and the budget will be presented in the RECs RFP when it is issued on April 20th. In the interim, page 40 the IPA's Procurement Plan has additional information on these subjects.

(Posted 4/16/09)

Yes. The procurement information from the 2008 RECs procurement is available here.

(Posted 4/8/09)