New Jersey’s Basic Generation Service Auctions — Served as the Commission’s consultant for the annual BGS Auction, the best-known and one of the largest full requirements auctions in the country. This annually procures one-third of the electric supply for New Jersey’s residential and small commercial and industrial customers and 100% of the electric supply for the State’s larger commercial and industrial customers.   Read 2009 report... Read 2010 report...     Illinois 2010 RFPs — Served as the Commission’s advisor for the annual ComEd and Ameren RFPs, two of the largest sealed bid RFPs.     FirstEnergy Ohio’s Auction in 2009 — Advised the Ohio Commission for FirstEnergy’s 2009 Auction for Standard Service Offer supply. The auction, which secured around 11,500 MW, was a major step in the transition of Ohio's competitive market.

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Full Requirements Procurements

Boston Pacific is the monitor of choice for nearly all of the major full requirements solicitations in PJM and MISO. We have years of hands-on experience in helping procure full requirements (also known as Standard Offer or Basic Generation Service) supply in many different regions via many different methods.

In total, Boston Pacific has monitored or managed the procurement of around 100,000 MW of full requirements supply resulting in billions of dollars of successful purchases. Our work has included:

• All utilities in Maryland’s SOS RFPs from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2010
• The District of Columbia‘s 2005 through 2010 SOS RFPs
• Delaware’s 2007 through 2010 SOS RFPs
• New Jersey’s 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Basic Generation Service Auctions
• The Illinois Commerce Commission’s 2006 Auction and 2008, 2009, and 2010 RFPs
• FirstEnergy Ohio’s 2009 Auction
• Allegheny Power’s current RFP in its Pennsylvania service territory and
• Delmarva Power's 2007 Virginia RFP

These engagements reflect different markets (Eastern PJM, Western PJM and MISO) and a range of procurement methods, from the descending clock auctions in New Jersey, Ohio, and Illinois (2006) to the sealed-offer pay-as-bid solicitations of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Illinois (from 2008 on), to the multi-round timed auction currently used in Delaware.