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A RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE FORM AND AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTION OF BLUE CREEK WIND SCHEDULE WITH AMERICAN MUNICIPAL POWER, INC. AND TAKING OF OTHER ACTIONS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
Brief Description: American Municipal Power (AMP) has negotiated a power purchase agreement (PPA) for competitively priced green energy and capacity from the Blue Creek Wind Project located in Northwest Ohio. The City's power supply consultant is recommending Hudson purchase 3MW from the PPA to replace a portion of retired landfill green energy, and a small portion of its remaining requirements need.
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Purpose & Explanation
The Blue Creek Wind Farm (BCW) is a 304 MW wind generation facility on 80 acres of land in Van Wert Ohio (see attached). Over the past few years, AMP power supply staff has been actively looking at potential opportunities for Hudson to bring on additional renewable energy sources at competitive pricing as current resource contracts expire. With the landfill gas going offline at the end of 2021, and the remaining requirements contract reaching term at the end of 2024, AMP recommended the City purchase 6 MW at a price not to exceed $59.00/MW for a term of 5 years.
Upon review of AMP's recommendation, the City's Power Supply Consultant Mr. John Courtney recommended Hudson should only purchase 3MW as opposed to 6MW. Mr. Courtney indicated that 6MW is too many MW and would take up nearly half of the City's "open position" in the overall portfolio. Mr. Courtney's opinion is there may be opportunities in the future that will offer better terms than the current BCW offer. As such, staff is in agreement with signing on the BCW PPA for 3MW at a price not to exceed $59.00/MW for a term of 5 years. This purchase will put the City's renewable position at approximately 23.4%.
Amp continues to investigate and review the following opportunity.
* Potential solar power resource PPA in the PJM footprin...
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