RFP Community Solar Subscription Services

The City of Syracuse is seeking proposals from New York State licensed and regulated Community Solar providers to supply a portion of the City’s energy needs with discounted energy by becoming a customer for various solar farms in the region. The City of Syracuse owns 190 buildings and facilities of which 184 are operationally managed by City staff. Of those 184 buildings and facilities, the City has selected electrical accounts that annually (based on fiscal year 2025) use over 10,000 kwh. This selection results in 76 disparate accounts with National Grid that the City is making available for subscription to a discounted energy source. Details on the 76 accounts’ usage is provided in Attachment 1, further information such as account number and address will be provided to the vendor upon contract award. Electrical accounts are from various Departments within the City’s inventory of buildings and facilities to include streetlights, traffic signals, water facilities, City Hall, and other recreation and departmental buildings. Regardless of their classification, all electrical accounts are managed by the City’s Budget Office. Combined, the 76 accounts totaled 14,480,380 kwh of use in fiscal year 2025 (July’24 to June’25). Ideally, the City would like to allocate all kwhs of use towards discounted energy sources; however, options to scale allocation over a defined timeline or based on available solar farm capacity are acceptable for this RFP.