City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2023-1747

• File #: 2023-1747
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 7/14/2023
• In control: Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure
• On agenda: 7/18/2023
• Final action: 7/25/2023
• Enactment date: 7/25/2023
• Enactment #: 485
• Effective date: 7/28/2023
• Title: Resolution amending Resolution No. 446 of 2021, which authorized the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Works to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements and/or Commodity Master Agreement(s) with Direct Energy Business LLC ("Direct Energy") for the supply of electricity to City buildings and facilities, by extending the current term by three years through 2029 and adding additional services such as the purchase of renewable energy certificates from a sleeved Wind Renewable Energy Opportunity, for an annual increase of Twenty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-Three Dollars and Forty-Three Cents ($25,963.43) and a new total amount not to exceed of Three Hundred Fifty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-Nine Dollars and Twenty Cents ($357,529.20).
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS (AMENDING)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/28/2023	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
7/25/2023	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
7/19/2023	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
7/18/2023	1	City Council	Read and referred
7/18/2023	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass

title
Resolution amending Resolution No. 446 of 2021, which authorized the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Works to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements and/or Commodity Master Agreement(s) with Direct Energy Business LLC ("Direct Energy") for the supply of electricity to City buildings and facilities, by extending the current term by three years through 2029 and adding additional services such as the purchase of renewable energy certificates from a sleeved Wind Renewable Energy Opportunity, for an annual increase of Twenty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-Three Dollars and Forty-Three Cents ($25,963.43) and a new total amount not to exceed of Three Hundred Fifty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-Nine Dollars and Twenty Cents ($357,529.20).

body
WHEREAS, the City is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium ("WPEC"), which is comprised of public and private entities who have partnered together in order to optimize savings and maximize their use of renewable energy sources; and

WHEREAS, WPEC members have agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding to share in the aggregated purchase of electricity in prorated volumetric amounts based upon members' actual usage thereof; and

WHEREAS, the City along with other WPEC members have previously hired an energy consultant, Enel X North America, Inc. ("Enel X'), for services relating to energy procurement strategies including with regard to hiring an electricity supplier/subaccount holder for an agreement to commence in June 2021; and

WHEREAS, each WPEC member has separately entered into an agreement with Enel X for said energy consultant services; and

WHEREAS, the City along with other WPEC members require enhanced services with regard to long term electricity supply in order to meet WPEC goals of reducing emissions and achieving greater financial savings, for example, the establishment and management of an electricity subaccount al...