DATE: February 4, 2020
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Robert W. Bash, Director of Internal Services/Chief Information Officer
SUBJECT: Resolution and Solar Photovoltaic Energy Services Agreement with FFP, BTM Solar, LLC (Forefront Power)
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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1. Conduct a public hearing in accordance with California Government Code ? 4217.12 for the Board to determine that the terms of each of the proposed energy services agreements with FFP BTM SOLAR, LLC (ForeFront Power) (in recommended actions #3 and #4, below) are in the best interests of the County, and to find that the anticipated costs to the County for electrical energy or conservation services to be provided by the solar photovoltaic (PV) energy system (in recommended action #3 below) and the energy storage system (in recommended action #4 below) under each of those proposed agreements, respectively, will be less than the County's anticipated marginal costs for the purchase of such energy and conservation services in the absence of each such proposed agreement, respectively.
2. Adopt and authorize the Chairman to execute Resolution making the determinations and findings as described in recommended action #1 (Gov. Code, ? 4217.12).
3. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute Energy Services Agreement-Solar, Fresno County-Juvenile Justice Campus, including General Terms and Conditions of Energy Services Agreement, with ForeFront Power to finance, design, construct, install, operate, and maintain an approximately 27-acre, 3,585 kW (DC) (estimated) solar PV energy system (including solar panels) at the Juvenile Justice Campus, located at 3333 E. American Avenue, Fresno, CA, 93725 (the JJC), for the County to purchase energy at specified rates, for a possible twenty-five (25) year term, with an option to purchase the solar PV energy system after the 5th anniversary of commercial operation of the solar PV energy system.
4. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute Energy Services...
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