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Pre-RFPEnvironmental ServicesDetected Jun 17, 2026

The updated 2025 Holland Community Energy Plan (CEP) lays out multi-year strategies and possible actions for reducing community carbon emissions across five key levers: electric portfolio, building energy consumption, transportation, education, and carbon offsets. The document explicitly references actions such as new power purchase agreements for solar and wind, local solar and storage pilots, building electrification incentives, PACE district implementation, mobility strategic planning, expanded EV charging, a regional community education center, and a community-based carbon offset system. The Holland Energy Fund is identified as a key executor of these strategies, and the plan calls for external research/marketing firms, mobility planning partners, and potential carbon-offset project developers. No specific procurements are named yet, but the detailed action steps and targets through 2030 signal a pipeline of consulting, engineering, program design, marketing, and data/IT projects that will need vendor support as the city moves from planning to implementation over the 2026–2030 period.

The plan recommends annual reporting to City Council and a three-year review cycle, which will creat...

City of Holland cityCommunity Energy Plan implementation across electric, buildings, transport, education

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Environmental Services

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Capital plan & early discussion

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RFP / solicitation posted

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Award & contract

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