About
Santee Cooper
Established in 1934, Santee Cooper is South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, and the state’s largest power producer. Santee Cooper operates an integrated electric utility system, including facilities for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. As a public-power provider, Santee Cooper is the primary source of electricity for approximately 2 million people in all 46 counties of South Carolina, including more than 200,000 residential and commercial customers directly in Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry counties. Santee Cooper also supplies electricity to the state’s electric cooperatives through Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. As a fully integrated electric utility, Santee Cooper is the single-source provider of the generation, transmission, and distribution facilities necessary to provide unsurpassed reliability and customer service to all their customers.
About the Request for Proposal (RFP)
With support from Sargent & Lundy, Santee Cooper is issuing this Request for Proposal (RFP) to seek additional generation resources to add to its portfolio to meet expected load growth in their service territory starting January 1, 2028.
Santee Cooper is requesting proposals for firm capacity and energy from dispatchable resources for delivery to its load in the Santee Cooper balancing authority – including thermal or energy storage resources – totaling up to 750 MW. Santee Cooper may be required to bundle multiple offers to meet their load growth forecasts.
The RFP is open to existing or new projects. Santee Cooper will consider new projects with a Commercial Operation Date (“COD”) and existing projects that will become available to, or transferred to, Santee Cooper on or after January 1, 2028. Santee Cooper prefers transactions in the form of a build-transfer, asset acquisition, or other structured products including power purchase agreements (“PPAs”).
Santee Cooper is not interested in solar PV resources as a response to this RFP, as future solar PV resources will be procured through a separate competitive bid.
Additional information of the requirements of this ASRFP can be found on the RFP Documents Section.
About
Sargent & Lundy
Sargent & Lundy has been retained by Santee Cooper to provide support with the administration of this RFP. Sargent & Lundy is an engineering consulting firm providing comprehensive engineering, energy business consulting, and project services for power generation and delivery systems. Learn more about Sargent & Lundy at sargentlundy.com.
Additional Resources
Project schedule
RFP milestone dates and deadlines.
RFP documents
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RFP Q&A
Read RFP questions and answers.