Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify past outstanding, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC under parent vendor NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc (Vendor # 043736) and authorizes the assignment of all past outstanding, present, and future business done by the City of Columbus from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC to DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC. The doing-business-as name remains the same.
Ordinance 0210-2021 authorized the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a letter of intent and negotiate solar power purchase agreements for the Division of Power and to enter into associated interconnection agreements. It also authorized the Director of Finance to enter into license or lease agreements for selected Department of Public Utilities (DPU) sites. Ordinance 3114-2022 modified the terms and conditions of these power purchase agreements to increase the negotiated price and to amend the right of entry agreements. Ordinance 1849-2024 further modified the agreements by appropriating funds to pay for the negotiated prices. Ordinance 0597-2025 modified the agreements to appropriate fiscal year 2025 funding for the estimated payments and to deal with a name change and assignment of existing contracts and purchase orders for the vendor over the Parsons Avenue Solar Field.
SUPPLIER:
DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC | D365 Vendor #054020 | Federal EIN on file | Certification Pending
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$0.00 is budgeted and available for this modification.
$0.00 has been spent year-to-date for the Jackson Pike Solar Field
$0.00 was spent in 2024
$0.00 was spent in 2023
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify past outstanding, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC under parent vendor NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc and assign all past outstanding, present, and future business done by the City of Columbus from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC to DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0210-2021 authorized the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a letter of intent and negotiate solar power purchase agreements for the Division of Power and to enter into associated interconnection agreements; and
WHEREAS, power purchase agreements with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC and DG Columbus Solar LLC, both subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc., were signed in December of 2021 for the Jackson Pike and Parsons Avenue solar sites, respectively; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 3114-2022 modified the terms and conditions of these power purchase agreements to increase the negotiated price and to amend the right of entry agreements; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1849-2024 further modified the agreements by appropriating funds to pay for the negotiated prices; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0597-2025 modified the agreements to appropriate fiscal year 2025 funding for the estimated payments and to deal with a name change and assignment of existing contracts and purchase orders for the vendor over the Parsons Avenue Solar Field; and
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify past outstanding, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC under parent vendor NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc (Vendor # 043736) and assign all past outstanding, present, and future business done by the City of Columbus from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC to DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify past outstanding, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC under parent vendor NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc (Vendor # 043736) and assign all past outstanding, present, and future business done by the City of Columbus from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC to DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Utilities is hereby authorized to modify past outstanding, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC under parent vendor NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc (Vendor # 043736) and assign all past outstanding, present, and future business done by the City of Columbus from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc dba DG Columbus Jackson Pike LLC to DG 2025 Retained Holdings LLC. The doing-business-as name remains the same.
SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.