Amount of Tranche 1 projects revealed....On page 3, item 6, of this document dated June 29, 2021, found
HERE PREPA states the following:
"PREPA personnel and technical advisors from the firm Sargent & Lundy are currently working around the clock to complete the initial technical valuation of the 70 PROJECT PROPOSALS PREPA received on June 18, 2021 in response to its Tranche 1 RFP." 70 projects is a lot of competition.
There's only 1000mw up for grabs and Montalva wants 80-160 of it
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How many of the 70 projects are utility-scale, like Montalva, we can only guess.
I suppose we can assume that a dozen or so are of the remaining shovel-ready projects.
I'm also guessing that there would have been quite a few smaller projects, or VPP's, that were proposed, compared to utility-scale projects.
If that's the case then the 70 number will be drastically reduced come Phase 2 of Tranche 1 since PREPA made it clear that the grid lacks the technology to monitor and communicate with VPP's, and therefore they should be eliminated from Tranche 1 and 2.
On July 15, 2021 we will find out how many of the 70 proposed projects have their paperwork in order and make it into Phase 2 of Tranche 1.
Phase 2 is a "Project Committee Review and Recommendation" which includes a qualitative evaluation, a pricing evaluation and an interconnection feasibility evaluation.
Let's hope Montalva will be there.