As a clarification to the June 5, 2024 project selection protocol announcement, per the Public Regulation Commission’s April 18, 2024 order, the Program Administrator must consider the bid size of a waitlisted project to determine its eligibility for selection without exceeding the 20% developer cap.
Per the order, “In determining whether there would be such a violation, the Program Administrator would rely upon the information provided in the bid application for the waitlisted project.” Even if a waitlisted project has downsized, the project’s original size will be considered when applying the 20% developer cap.
As an example, a Subscriber Organization (SO) has a 5 MW selected project and a 5 MW waitlisted project, both in SPS territory. As SPS has a 45 MW allocation, the 5 MW waitlisted project could not be selected because the total of 10 MW would exceed the 20% developer cap (45 MW x 20% = 9 MW). If the SO requests to downsize the waitlisted project to 4 MW, the project’s original bid size of 5 MW must still be used to evaluate whether its selection would exceed the developer cap. As a result, the project cannot be selected from the waitlist under these conditions.
Please reach out to the Program Administrator at [email protected] or 877-794-0109 with any questions.
