California Clean Energy Procurement

Capstone/Eurowind

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Capstone Infrastructure is generating our low-carbon future, driving the energy transition forward through creative thinking, strong partnerships, and a commitment to quality and integrity in how we do business. A developer, owner, and operator of clean and renewable energy projects across North America, Capstone’s portfolio includes approximately 776MW gross installed capacity across 30 facilities, including wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and natural gas cogeneration power plants. Please visit www.capstoneinfrastructure.com for more information.

Eurowind Energy develops, builds, owns and operates power plants that generate clean and renewable electricity. Energy business is our playground. We want to play a significant role in our future energy society.

We are your professional partner throughout the entire process: from greenfield development, to construction and operation of wind, solar and battery projects. We mean it when we say that we are the simple link to a complex market www.eurowindenergy.com

Pattern Energy

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Pattern Energy is a leading renewable energy company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates high-quality wind and solar generation, transmission, and energy storage facilities. Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence.

Our approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude drive us to pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises.

Headquartered in the United States, Pattern has a global portfolio of more than 35 power facilities and transmission assets, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers. 

Renewable America

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Renewable America is committed to investing in end-to-end development of local small utility-scale solar+storage and multi-customer community microgrids projects. Through this infrastructure improvement we provide emergency power to vulnerable populations and critical facilities during grid outages. Dispatchable renewable energy can transform the traditional grid through decentralized generation and create Local Resiliency. Our vision is to lead the way to the future of Community Microgrids by developing projects in strategic locations while minimizing possible environmental impacts on the land.

Our extensive services include engineering, financing, construction, and maintenance. With every project, we reaffirm our commitment to supporting our communities with economic development and renewable energy access. Renewable America has over 235 megawatts (MWdc) of solar and 450 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy storage projects under development throughout California. Our projects are strategically located to provide maximum benefit to the region, while also meeting the community’s demand needs.

You can learn more about us at www.renewam.com.

Ascend Analytics

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Ascend Analytics is an innovative energy analytics software and services company based in Boulder, CO. Since 2002, Ascend has provided power industry clients such as utilities, retailers, independent power producers, and financiers with analysis and insights to support robust decisions from the next day to the next 30 years. Our software and expertise are widely leveraged for battery dispatch bidding optimization, hedging and risk management, budgeting, integrated resource planning, RFO procurement valuation, and strategic planning. Ascend’s Market Intelligence service provides portfolio managers, power traders, strategic planners, and C-suite executives with the insight and confidence to make critical investments in new clean, reliable, and resilient energy infrastructure. For more information check out our website at www.ascendanalytics.com.

Aurora Energy Research

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Aurora Energy Research is a market-leading energy analytics company. With over 225 experts covering European, Australian and US power markets, Aurora provides transaction support, project finance, and subscription insight to utilities, developers, investors and lenders. The core of the business built around belief in the power of sophisticated modelling and data to help deliver actionable insights for the energy transition. Aurora is one of the few respected energy pricing analytics providers that delivers sufficiently rigorous and accurate forecasts to be bankable across a number of regions. Aurora’s head office in the USA is in Austin, TX.

Baker Botts

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Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 725 lawyers and 14 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.

For more than 175 years, Baker Botts has delivered results-oriented services, establishing us as a leading law firm. Our reputation is complemented by our leadership in government, the judiciary and our communities. Regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction of a client, our commitment is to help achieve their business objectives.

Clearway Energy Group

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Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., we own and operate more than 8 gigawatts of renewable and conventional energy assets across the country. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new renewable energy projects for one future, Clearway’s 6.9 gigawatts of operating wind, solar, and energy storage assets offset the equivalent of more than 10.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions for our customers today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Carlsbad, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Houston; and Princeton, N.J. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com

Stoel Rives LLP

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Stoel Rives is a leading U.S. corporate and litigation law firm providing high quality services to sophisticated business clients at every stage of their evolution. With 350 attorneys in seven states and Washington, D.C., Stoel Rives is a nationally recognized leader in the energy and natural resources industries. From deals and disputes to compliance and counseling, clients turn to Stoel Rives for their most complex business challenges. Let’s navigate the future together. Learn more at www.stoel.com

Innergex

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For over 30 years, Innergex has believed in a world where abundant renewable energy promotes healthier communities and creates shared prosperity. As an independent renewable power producer that develops, acquires, owns and operates hydroelectric facilities, wind farms, solar farms and energy storage facilities, Innergex is convinced that renewable energy will lead the way to a better world. Innergex operates in Canada, the United States, France and Chile and manages a large portfolio of high-quality assets with an aggregate net installed capacity of 3,582 MW (gross 4,184 MW) and an energy storage capacity of 159 MWh. Innergex also holds interests in 13 projects under development with a net installed capacity of 731 MW (gross 768 MW) and an energy storage capacity of 745 MWh, as well as several prospective projects at different stages of development.

IOWN

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By connecting project development expertise and funding with renewable energy projects, IOWN builds the bridge between projects, off-takers, and investors.

With the strong determination stemming from the Scandinavian work ethic and mentality, IOWN was founded in Europe in 2012 and entered the U.S. energy market in 2014 to develop projects better than anyone else. From that moment, our focus has been to create and cultivate a business model that methodically can identify optimal opportunities and strategically develop turnkey renewable energy facilities for ourselves and our valued clients.

Day to day, IOWN strives to be the partner of choice in the transformation of society to sustainable energy systems and beyond, acknowledging that creating revenue today is as important as creating value for tomorrow.

NextEra Energy Resources

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NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (together with its subsidiaries) is a clean energy leader and is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the U.S., with approximately 27,400 megawatts of total net generating capacity, primarily in 40 states and Canada as of year-end 2022. NextEra Energy Resources, together with its affiliated entities, is the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, and a world leader in battery storage. The company has invested billions of dollars – with plans to invest even more – in energy infrastructure across North America, including new wind and solar facilities, transmission and natural gas pipelines. Furthermore, NextEra Energy Resources is shaping the future of energy through innovation and a wide range of clean energy solutions to help businesses and customers across the country meet their emissions reduction goals.

Avangrid

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AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) aspires to be the leading sustainable energy company in the United States. Headquartered in Orange, CT with approximately $41 billion in assets and operations in 24 U.S. states, AVANGRID has two primary lines of business: Avangrid Networks and Avangrid Renewables. Avangrid Networks owns and operates eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.3 million customers in New York and New England. Avangrid Renewables owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy generation facilities across the United States. AVANGRID employs more than 7,600 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital for three consecutive years as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens. In 2022, AVANGRID ranked second within the utility sector for its commitment to the environment and the communities it serves. The company supports the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals and was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2022 for the fourth consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.

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Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. is the US subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation responsible for serving the North American power systems, rail transportation and water treatment industries with electrical and electronic products, systems and services. Products include gas circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, power transformers, gas insulated substations, power electronics and electricity transmission technologies, generator services, nuclear power plant control systems, ozone water treatment systems, uninterruptible power supplies, rail transportation equipment, and Diamond Vision video display screens.

Nixon Peabody

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At Nixon Peabody, we create positive impact for our clients, our communities, our people, and our firm. We deliver exceptional service, building and preserving trust while fostering a culture of collaboration, respect, and diversity. Deep industry knowledge, experience, and entrepreneurial spirit fuel creative solutions to the most complex legal problems. And our shared humanity drives our passion for helping others and connects us to our clients and each other.

Greenleaf Power

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Greenleaf Power is a leading renewable energy transition company focused on biomass power plants that recover agricultural and wood “waste” that would otherwise increase the risk of forest fires or be sent to landfills. Greenleaf is augmenting existing sites with adjacent zero-carbon technologies and expanding into adjacent markets through diversified technologies such as co-located BESS development, biochar, and gasification. Greenleaf aims to be the leader in the implementation and operation of innovative projects that recycle biogenic wastes to create renewable and reliable energy. Greenleaf provides a range of energy products including SB 1383-compliant biomass-to-electricity conversion.

River City Bank

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At River City Bank, we believe in doing our part to make California a greener and cleaner place
to live. We also believe it’s essential to support and partner with organizations taking the lead in
driving climate change policy, sustainability practices, and clean energy.

As a culmination of the Bank’s long-term involvement in the clean energy sector, the Bank
established the Clean Energy Division in 2018 under the leadership of Rosa Cucicea.
River City Bank was the first bank to provide credit and banking services to Community Choice
Aggregators (“CCAs”) in California and have actively worked with numerous CCAs since
financing the launch of Marin Clean Energy in 2010.

The Clean Energy Division also provides debt financing to renewable energy projects ranging
from $5 to $50 million. Our project lending team has deep experience working with various
financing structures, project developers, and tax equity investors to successfully finance projects
to completion.

California Wind Energy Association (CALWEA)

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Center for Sustainable Energy

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Clean Coalition

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The Clean Coalition is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid through technical, policy, and project development expertise. The Clean Coalition drives policy innovation to remove barriers to procurement and interconnection of distributed energy resources (DER) – such as local renewables, advanced inverters, demand response, and energy storage – and we establish market mechanisms that realize the full potential of integrating these solutions. The Clean Coalition also collaborates with utilities and municipalities to create near-term deployment opportunities that prove the technical and financial viability of local renewables and other DER.

CMUA California Municipal Utilities Association

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Green-e

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Green-e is a program of the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, and is North America’s leading independent risk assurance and consumer protection program for the purchase and sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e offers certification and verification services through Green-e Energy, a renewable energy certification program; Green-e Climate, a greenhouse gas emission reduction certification program; Green-e Direct, an energy purchase certification program, and Green-e Marketplace, a program that provides forward-thinking organizations a simple, nationally recognized logo they can use to communicate their renewable energy and climate commitment to their customers and stakeholders. To learn more about Green-e Certified products and programs available in U.S. and Canada and coming soon for some international regions, visit www.green-e.org.

OpenADR Alliance

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The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard, helps utilities manage the growing pool of distributed energy resources (DER), which includes renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicle charging. The OpenADR standard supports communications to all DER resources to manage changes in load shape, energy inputs and power characteristics of DER assets. For more information please visit www.openadr.org.

Power Association of Northern California (PANC)

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