About CMPAS

As a power agency and utility services organization, CMPAS works hard to help public power utilities achieve competitively-priced, personalized power portfolios that optimize locally-owned resources and unique load factors in the energy market.

CMPAS believes planning is the most important service we provide to members and affiliates. Typically, CMPAS members’ power supply and transmission portfolio represents 60-70 percent of their utility costs. A well-planned portfolio mitigates electric utility risk through a combination of resource types, cost characteristics, market strategies for energy and capacity, and power and load factor studies.

As a power agency and utility services organization, CMPAS provides information and recommendations so that local utility staff and commissions can maximize customer satisfaction, minimize costs, and protect against uncertainty.

CMPAS acquires, retains and develops the necessary industry talent in-house, so our members can focus on local issues. The industry specialists at CMPAS apply their knowledge of best practices for power supply planning and development, energy economics, energy scheduling in the MISO and SPP markets, transmission ownership and management, distribution planning, utility accounting and finance strategies, and government and industry compliance.

Markedly different than an “all in” full requirements agency, utilities in a project agency such as CMPAS can belong as either full or partial requirements members and do not have to participate in any projects. Each CMPAS member owns a distinct local power portfolio comprising legacy resources, assets, and other characteristics to meet the needs of their load profile.

CMPAS provides planning services to help members and affiliates gain a greater understanding of their power portfolio’s inherent risks and cost drivers. Based on a utility’s preference, CMPAS provides management services for existing portfolios and project development for new needs.

Through collaboration and economies of scale, CMPAS leverages purchasing power that increases access to opportunities. These opportunities have allowed CMPAS to achieve competitive rates and a 47 percent carbon-free portfolio.

The cost-sharing capability of the project-oriented business model makes agency-sponsored projects more competitive. Through collaborative partnerships, CMPAS lowers the cost of project planning, development, and management services that leads to competitive rates.

CMPAS works hard to help utilities achieve competitively-priced, individualized portfolios that optimize locally-owned resources and unique load factors. At CMPAS, members and affiliates share costs for professional expertise related to power supply, transmission, energy market, and distribution projects in every phase from planning, development, and management.

CMPAS’s resource planning and procurement efforts over the last 10 years have produced some of the lowest public power costs in the region. As the Agency built significant diversity into its portfolio, it successfully reduced wholesale costs from the upper 25 percentile in the region to the lower 25.