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Grant PUD Annual Power Auction

Auction for a 4.22% Slice  of the 2025 Priest Rapids Project Output.

 

Getting Started

Before getting started, please update your contact information using the following form. We rely on this information for our emailing and phone directory. Even if you have updated your information last year (and it is unchanged) we still encourage everyone to fill out the contact information.

Review and download required documents and forms below.

AUCTION CHECKLIST

This document provides a list of tasks and items that need to be performed or delivered in order to participate in the Power Auction.

2024 Auction Schedule

for a 4.22% slice of 2025 PRP 

March 8, 2024

Send out Notice to Start Auction Process

April 16, 2024

Auction Percentage for Calendar Year 2025 announced 

 

May 17, 2024

Deadline to submit information to Pre-Qualify to Bid

 

June 4, 2024

Auction Bids due between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.

 

June 11, 2024

Contract Execution with Auction Winner

 

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Required documents

BID FORM

Bid Form is for bid submittal. Please do not alter the Bid Form as any altered forms will not be accepted. Grant will be auctioning a 4.22% slice of the 2025 Priest Rapids Project. 

 
COLLATERAL THRESHOLD TABLE

information on the collateral establishment process.



GUARANTY

this is the form of guaranty that will be accepted by Grant PUD. Guaranty and/or collateral postings are required upon Contract execution.



FINAL CONTRACT FOR OPEN-MARKET SALE OF PRIEST RAPIDS PROJECT POWER



FINAL CONTRACT FOR OPEN-MARKET SALE OF PRIEST RAPIDS PROJECT POWER REDLINE

All proposed edits from contract for 2024 Slice are reflected in this document.



PREQUALIFICATION APPLICATION

This must be filled out and returned to Grant by May 17, 2024, in order to participate in the auction. Please be sure to include the applicant's "Certificate of Incumbency or Authorized Signatory Booklet" along with the prequalification application. Once your application is processed you will be contacted by Jerrod Estell jestell@gcpud.org notifying you of your Collateral Threshold and Guarantee Requirement.



EXAMPLE OF CERTIFICATE OF INCUMBENCY

 


SAMPLE RESOLUTION

In addition to the signed Contract, the auction winner will also need to present a board resolution, ordinance or policy authorizing said signatory to enter in a contract with the District for the purchase of energy prior to Contract execution June 11, 2024. If you have a corporate resolution that demonstrates authority to enter into the Contract, please send a copy to us prior to the auction so that we can assure that it meets the legal requirements of our process.

 

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Winner for 2025 PRP Slice


Puget Sound Energy

 
 

History of the Power Auction

On Feb. 11, 1998, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an “Order Modifying Initial Decision," which requires Grant PUD to sell a portion of its firm and non-firm Priest Rapids Project power. We developed a marketing plan to comply with the FERC order. See details, below.

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THE PLAN MUST

 

  • Be fair and equitable
  • Be non-discriminatory
  • Be pursuant to market-based principles and procedures

Grant PUD developed the "open-market auction" (power auction) process to establish the market price of project power in response to the FERC order.

The power auction is the first of its kind in the nation. The first power auction happened in 2005 and has been received well by the industry. It is our goal to not only meet the tenets of the FERC order but also provide access to our clean, renewable, hydro resource on the Columbia River.

Research Documents & Links

 

You may find these documents and links helpful in evaluating our power products.

Priest Rapids Project (Wanapum & Priest Rapids Hydro Developments - WAPR)

The District's BA Hosting Principles located in Exhibit B of the CONTRACT FOR OPEN-MARKET SALES OF PRIEST RAPIDS PROJECT POWER addresses scheduling requirements and reserves. The District has a requirement that the Auction winner has Grant's BA as the host and that the BA Hosting Principles Appendix is part of the Open Market Contract.

PRP Operations Overview gives a cliff notes overview of significant power and non-power requirements. This information is helpful in understanding operations on the dams and also give insight to interpreting data files available on our website.

Priest Rapids Project Scheduled Outages is a file showing, on a daily basis, when turbines, generators, and transformers are expected to be out of service and the resulting expected number of generators available at both the Wanapum and Priest Rapids Developments.

Disclaimer

Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, WA (District) will be conducting an auction for the sale of a percentage portion of the electrical generation output and associated products (Project Slice) from the District’s Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Project.

The information provided on this Web site relates to the auction process and project slice description. While the District believes this information to be accurate, potential bidders shall be solely responsible for conducting their own investigation and analysis. The District makes no warranties or representations of any kind whatsoever relating to the auction or project slice, except as expressly set forth in the written contract documents made available to prospective bidders.