Pre-procurement notice
Soft Market Test: Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for Quorn Solar Farm
Notice details
- Published
- Category
- Not specified
- Buyer region
- East Midlands
- Source
- View official notice
Public buyer
Public buyer
Leicestershire County CouncilTender value£10,000,000
- Planned startAs published in the notice
- Planned endAs published in the notice
Work description
Leicestershire County Council "the Council" is undertaking a Soft Market Testing (SMT) exercise to understand how to maximise the benefit from its investment into a solar farm currently planned to be completed by Autumn 2023.
The site is expected to generate approximately 10,000 MWh of electricity which would be fed directly into the energy grid. The grid connection with Western Power Distribution has been previously secured.
The Council has set out several questions that it is seeking information on from the industry to help the Council determine how it should approach procuring a PPA and to maximise the return on its investment in constructing a solar farm.
At this stage it is soft market test only and NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
Solar farm location: Poole Farm, Barrow Road, Quorn, LE12 8EN
Estimated value and market approach date given in this notice are indicative and subject to change. Value will be dependent on the approach, contract duration and various other factors, some of which are considered by this market test.