Maine § 35-A §3484 Procurement methods

Maine Statutes

§ 35-A §3484 — Procurement methods

Maine § 35-A §3484

Title 35-APUBLIC UTILITIES

Part 3ELECTRIC POWER

Ch. 34-CDISTRIBUTED GENERATION

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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 35-A, § 35-A §3484 (2026).

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1.Initial competitive procurement. The following standards and methods apply to the initial competitive procurement of distributed generation resources associated with commercial or institutional customer accounts under section 3485 and of shared distributed generation resources under section 3486:

2.Subsequent block contract rate procurements. Subsequent to the initial competitive procurement under subsection 1, the remaining procurement under sections 3485 and 3486 must proceed pursuant to the following:

3.Failure to complete timely procurement. If any procurement block remains unfilled for more than 12 months from the time the previous block was filled:

4.Bid or offer qualification. The commission shall establish minimum requirements for bids or offers in a solicitation under this s

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1.
Initial competitive procurement.
The following standards and methods apply to the initial competitive procurement of distributed generation resources associated with commercial or institutional customer accounts under section 3485 and of shared distributed generation resources under section 3486:
2.
Subsequent block contract rate procurements.
Subsequent to the initial competitive procurement under subsection 1, the remaining procurement under sections 3485 and 3486 must proceed pursuant to the following:
3.
Failure to complete timely procurement.
If any procurement block remains unfilled for more than 12 months from the time the previous block was filled:
4.
Bid or offer qualification.
The commission shall establish minimum requirements for bids or offers in a solicitation under this section, including:
5.
Ensuring competition.
Prior to each solicitation under subsections 1 to 3, the commission shall establish standards to ensure that the solicitation has a sufficient number of unique bidders and quantity of qualified bids to be determined competitive. If the commission concludes that a solicitation is not competitive, the commission may reduce the target procurement quantities to produce the greatest quantity that may be procured consistent with this subsection and shall defer to subsequent solicitations the capacity reduced in the solicitation.
6.
Bid selection.
Following a review of bids received in the solicitations under subsections 1 to 3, and after any adjustment to the target quantity under subsection 5, the commission shall select one or more winning bids that, in the aggregate, meet the target procurement quantity. If there are multiple qualified bids at the same offer rate, the commission shall give preference to the qualified bid or bids that minimize the cost to the standard buyers or, if there is no difference in cost, to the bid that was submitted first.
7.
Standard contract and milestones.
Prior to a solicitation, the commission shall provide, in consultation with the standard buyer or standard buyers, a standard contract that commits the standard buyer and a project sponsor to commercially reasonable behavior and includes provisions including an interconnection fee list and interconnection schedule to ensure that the project proceeds to commercial operation on a reasonable timeline. The standard contracts for all standard buyers must be substantially identical to the extent commercially reasonable.