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6.1.G. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er January 28, 2013 SUBJECT Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Redwood City and the County of Alameda for the Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project RECOMMENDATION Approve and authorize the City Manager to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the County of Alameda and other agencies participating in a Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project. BACKGROUND Redwood City is a participant in a Renewable Energy Procurement Project (R-REP), an initiative intended to use collaborative procurement to purchase renewable energy systems, i.e., solar or photo-voltaic collectors, for public agencies throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. Twenty public agencies, including cities, counties and special districts are participating in the project (attachment 1). Alameda County is the lead agency, in partnership with two local nonprofit organizations, Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Contra Costa Economic Partnership. The R-REP is based upon the successful Silicon Valley Collaborative Renewable Energy Procurement Project (SV-REP). In that instance, multiple agencies came together with the goal of creating enough of a market demand to obtain favorable pricing for the energy projects. Redwood City has completed feasibility studies for sites under consideration for inclusion in the project (attachment 2). The results were reported to the Environmental Initiatives Sub-Committee in October 2012. The sub-committee supported staff's recommendation to bring the MOU to Council. ANALYSIS Each agency participating in the R-REP is required to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in order to participate in the solicitation process and to benefit from the vendor selection (attachment 3). The MOU defines the roles and responsibilities of Participating Agencies and is intended to provide stability to the project during the solicitation process. Any party may terminate the MOU at any time up to thirty (30) days prior to the issuance of the Solicitation pursuant to the schedule developed by County of Alameda in collaboration with the parties for such solicitation, or at any time after a Vendor is selected.