Market Development and Governance Structure Analysis Services

The Vendor is required to provide to procure the services of a consultant to develop the public private partnership plan to roadmap clean energy deployment—particularly district geothermal. With urban density, struggles at the state level for developing increased grid reliability and infrastructure, geothermal is one of the best solutions available for cost-effective energy for major renovations and new construction.
- Develop a comprehensive plan that:
•    Establishes strategic partnerships to advance geothermal market development within city;
•    Identifies opportunities to reduce soft costs through targeted policy and financing strategies;
•    Recommends appropriate governance structures to support district or networked geothermal project implementation;
•    Evaluates and prioritizes a pipeline of potential geothermal projects, emphasizing collaboration with prospective customers and district energy suppliers; and
•    Ensures that at least 50% of the identified project pipeline serves low-income and disadvantaged communities.
- Provide a market analysis and framework for increased geothermal and network geothermal adoption in city.
- This framework will include a market assessment of overall local demand potential, an assessment of potential project partners, including anchor institutions, and recommendations of partner firms for geothermal design, engineering, and management.
- Facilitation of meetings or introductions with interested parties to explain the opportunity and garner interest.
- Provide recommendations for connection to work force development programs for construction and ongoing maintenance.
- Strategies will outline incentives and risk-mitigation mechanisms to attract investment and propose procurement and aggregation structures to build economies of scale.
- Evaluate the current process in city and identify opportunities to reduce soft costs through permitting, policy, or regulatory improvements in comparison to best practices in the Country. This includes analyzing the potential of current local and state incentives.
- Complete a thorough analysis and summary of district energy governance and cost structures from throughout the Country making recommendations for potential structures for the City. 
- The focus of this task will be on district or network energy systems that support or sell energy to a mix of customers including government owned buildings, not for profits, and/or commercial entities, or, are operated for or by local governments. 
- Governance structures should analyze for-profit, government owned, and not-for-profit models with cost structures, estimated or example rates, governance agreements and applicable local, public service commission, and state enabling legislation.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 12, 2025