Puerto Rico’s Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A), in association with power authority PREPA, issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) to provide 3,000MW of new generation capacity. PREPA will enter into one or several public-private partnership (PPP) contracts for generation using technologies that qualify as firm capacity, such as thermal, battery storage and renewables with batteries. Coal-fired and nuclear energy resources will not be permitted.
The generation facilities must be operational within 30 months from the notice to proceed. The call is part of the US territory’s power system transformation and aims to address resource adequacy shortfalls.
