Direct any questions regarding this RFP to James Carney, jcarney@zone7water.com, by May 17, 2024, at 3:00PM Pacific. An addendum will be issued, if needed, within one week. The addendum will be posted to the Zone 7 website. Zone 7 is the wholesale treated drinking water supplier to retailers serving over 270,000 people in Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin and, through special agreement with the Dublin San Ramon Services District, to the Dougherty Valley area of San Ramon. Zone 7 also supplies untreated water for irrigation of about 5,000 acres of agriculture property, primarily South Livermore Valley vineyards. Zone 7 also provides regional flood protection within the service area and administers oversight of the local groundwater basin--the Livermore Valley Groundwater Basin. Of the approximately 55,000 acre-feet of water used in Zone 7's service area (on average in a normal rainfall year) Zone 7 estimates that approximately 53% of water use is residential, approximately 11% is commercial/industrial, approximately 14% is agricultural, approximately 18% is landscape/other and approximately 4% is public water use. The 55,000 acre-feet of water referred to above includes treated water provided to retailers by Zone 7, local groundwater pumped by the water retailers, untreated agricultural irrigation water provided by the State Water Project, and local surface water. Zone 7 owns and operates groundwater production wells within four wellfields in the basin. The Chain of Lakes wellfield, as shown in Exhibit D, currently contains three active wells (COL1, COL2, and COL5). Zone 7 has secured a PG&E NEM2A IA for these three wells, to be served by the solar facility, with point of interconnection at COL5. Exhibit B provides relevant information from the PG&E IA and application. The successful Respondent shall finance, design, install, own, operate and maintain a floating solar energy system (hereinafter referred to as the "solar facility") at Zone 7's Lake I reservoir. The successful Respondent will also be responsible for the delivery of electricity to the Agency under a long-term Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
.webp)
