Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Review the City’s opons for management of its energy distribuon system and provide the City with a brief report of those opons. 2. Review the current Distribuon Lease Agreement and Wholesale Power Contract 3. Review the proposed Professional Retail Operaons Agreement and related opons and riders 4. Meet with City staff and elected officials to discuss the current contracts and proposed Pro Agreement 5. Based on feed back from City staff and elected officials, develop recommendaons for contract language and structure to include in a new Pro Agreement. Recommendaons should be consistent with current industry standards for the retail operaon, maintenance, and build out of the City’s energy distribuon system. 6. The City has the following specific needs to be discussed/included in a new agreement. These will be ve>ed by the consultant and may be modified or added to by the consultant following the consultants review of exisng and proposed contracts/agreements. a. A step up clause during the term of the agreement for increasing the percentage of renewable energy mix allowed by the agreement b. Support for renewable energy projects outside the City’s current 10% renewable cap either owned by the City or NPPD. These may be for economic development purposes or to increase the City’s use of renewable energy behind the meter. NPPD has provided potenal contract language for a Renewable Energy Parcipaon Program that may meet these requirements.
