event, to the extent the SPO Fee was already paid by the Project Participant or by CCCFA, Morgan Stanley agrees to reimburse the Project Participant or CCCFA, as appropriate. To the extent CCCFA incurs any SPO Fee if the bonds are not issued as a result of the Project Participant’s unwillingness or inability to proceed, other than due to an inability to achieve a minimum established target discount, the Project Participant agrees that it will be liable for such SPO Fee and make direct payment to Kestrel therefor, or to CCCFA if the SPO Fee was already paid by CCCFA.
Morgan Stanley shall have no responsibility for any fees or expenses incurred by CCCFA or the Project Participant, or their agents, employees, advisors or counsel, in connection with the issuance of the Bonds and the purchase of the Prepaid Energy, other than the Rating Agency Fee and SPO Fee as described in this MOU and as further described in the Bond Purchase Agreement (as defined herein).
Miscellaneous
CCCFA and Project Participant each acknowledge and agree that: (i) the transaction contemplated by this MOU is, in each case, an arm’s length, commercial transaction between the CCCFA and Morgan Stanley (in its role as “Underwriter” and/or the “Energy Supplier”, as applicable) in which the Underwriter and the Energy Supplier are each acting solely as a principal and not acting as a municipal advisor, financial advisor or fiduciary to CCCFA or the Project Participant; and (ii) CCCFA and the Project Participant will consult their own legal, accounting, tax, financial and other advisors, as applicable, to the extent each has deemed appropriate.
CCCFA acknowledges and agrees that Morgan Stanley is not making a commitment to extend credit, make a loan or otherwise fund the Bonds beyond the obligations contained in a mutually satisfactory bond purchase agreement (the “Bond Purchase Agreement”). CCCFA acknowledges that the services provided under this MOU involve professional judgment on Morgan Stanley’s part and that the results cannot be, and are not, guaranteed.
Nothing contained herein shall preclude the Underwriter from carrying on its customary and usual business activities. The Underwriter specifically reserves the right, but is not obligated, to bid for and maintain secondary markets on any of CCCFA’s outstanding bonds subject to appropriate information barriers. Services provided by the Underwriter in connection with this MOU shall not limit the Underwriter from providing services for CCCFA or the Project Participant in conjunction with other services requested by CCCFA or the Project Participant except as limited by rule of law or regulation.
In connection with the services agreed to herein, it is understood that the Underwriter will render professional services as an independent contractor. Neither the Underwriter nor any of its agents or employees shall be deemed an employee of CCCFA or the Project Participant for any purpose.
Except as described in this paragraph, this MOU is intended to be, and shall be construed only as, a non-binding MOU, intent on summarizing and evidencing discussions between CCCFA, the Project Participant, and Morgan Stanley, as of the date hereof. Except as described below, any legally binding obligation of the parties with respect to the transaction described herein shall exist only upon the execution and delivery of definitive agreements related thereto, into which this MOU Item 2
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and all prior discussions shall merge. It is expressly understood that this MOU is not a contract to execute any definitive agreements or to otherwise consummate the transactions described herein. The parties will cooperate in negotiating definitive agreements providing for the transactions contemplated by this MOU, but each party reserves the right of final approval or disapproval, for any reason, of the documentation relating to such agreements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions above under the headings “Rating Agency Fee and SPO Fee” shall be binding upon the parties.
Sincerely,
_________________________
Grant Fraunfelder, Executive Director
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC
ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
SILICON VALLEY CLEAN ENERGY AUTHORITY
By: ____________________________
Name: Amrit Singh
Title: Chief Financial Officer/Director of Administrative Services Date: [July __], 2025
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY
By: ____________________________
Name: Garth Salisbury
Title: Treasurer – Controller
Date: [July __], 2025
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TRUST INDENTURE
Between
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as Trustee
$[__]
Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds
Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate])
Dated as of September 1, 2025
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND GOVERNING LAW .............................................................................. 3 Section 1.01. Definitions................................................................................................... 3 Section 1.02. Captions .................................................................................................... 30 Section 1.03. Rules of Construction ............................................................................... 30 Section 1.04. Governing Law ......................................................................................... 30 Section 1.05. Consents.................................................................................................... 30 ARTICLE II AUTHORIZATION AND ISSUANCE OF BONDS................................................................ 30 Section 2.01. Authorization of Bonds and Refunding Bonds; Application of Proceeds.................................................................................................... 30 Section 2.02. Terms of Series 2025[_] Bonds; Payment ................................................ 31 Section 2.03. Conditions for Issuance of Bonds............................................................. 33 Section 2.04. Initial Interest Rate Period; Subsequent Interest Rate Periods ................. 34 Section 2.05. Daily Interest Rate Period......................................................................... 35 Section 2.06. Weekly Interest Rate Period ..................................................................... 36 Section 2.07. Term Rate Period ...................................................................................... 37 Section 2.08. Commercial Paper Interest Rate Periods .................................................. 39 Section 2.09. Index Rate Periods.................................................................................... 41 Section 2.10. Notice of Conversion ................................................................................ 44 Section 2.11. Liquidity Facility ...................................................................................... 45 Section 2.12. Provisions Regarding Commodity Swaps ................................................ 45 Section 2.13. Provisions Regarding Interest Rate Swap................................................. 47 Section 2.14. CPI Index Rate Periods............................................................................. 48 ARTICLE III GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF BONDS .......................................................... 51 Section 3.01. Medium of Payment; Form and Date; Letters and Numbers.................... 51 Section 3.02. Legends..................................................................................................... 51 Section 3.03. Execution and Authentication................................................................... 51 Section 3.04. Exchange, Transfer and Registry.............................................................. 52 Section 3.05. Regulations With Respect to Exchanges and Registration of Transfers ................................................................................................... 53 Section 3.06. Bonds Mutilated, Destroyed, Stolen or Lost............................................. 54 Section 3.07. Temporary Bonds...................................................................................... 54 Section 3.08. Payment of Interest on Bonds; Interest Rights Preserved......................... 54 Section 3.09. Book Entry System; Appointment of Securities Depository .................... 55 Section 3.10. Subsidy Payments..................................................................................... 57 Section 3.11. Limitation of Liability of the Issuer.......................................................... 57 ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION OF BONDS AND TENDER PROVISIONS................................................... 57 Section 4.01. Extraordinary Redemption........................................................................ 57 Section 4.02. Sinking Fund Redemption ........................................................................ 58 Item 2
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-ii-Section 4.03. Optional Redemption................................................................................ 59 Section 4.04. Redemption Notice ................................................................................... 61 Section 4.05. Bonds Redeemed in Part........................................................................... 62 Section 4.06. Redemption at the Election or Direction of the Issuer.............................. 62 Section 4.07. Redemption Other Than at the Issuer’s Election or Direction.................. 62 Section 4.08. Selection of Bonds To Be Redeemed ....................................................... 63 Section 4.09. Payment of Redeemed Bonds................................................................... 63 Section 4.10. Cancellation and Destruction of Bonds .................................................... 63 Section 4.11. Optional Tender During Daily or Weekly Interest Rate Periods.............. 64 Section 4.12. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on Day Next Succeeding the Last Day of Each CP Interest Term.................................................................. 64 Section 4.13. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on the Mandatory Purchase Date, Index Rate Tender Date or Term Rate Tender Date ................................. 64 Section 4.14. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on Conversion of Interest Rate Period ........................................................................................................ 65 Section 4.15. General Provisions Relating to Tenders ................................................... 65 Section 4.16. Notice of Mandatory Tender for Purchase................................................ 68 Section 4.17. Irrevocable Notice Deemed to Be Tender of Bond; Undelivered Bonds Deemed Purchased on Mandatory Purchase Date ......................... 69 Section 4.18. Remarketing of Bonds; Notice of Interest Rates ...................................... 69 Section 4.19. The Remarketing Agent............................................................................ 70 Section 4.20. Qualifications of Remarketing Agent; Resignation; Removal ................. 70 Section 4.21. Successor Remarketing Agents................................................................. 70 Section 4.22. Tender Agent ............................................................................................ 71 ARTICLE V ESTABLISHMENT OF FUNDS AND APPLICATION THEREOF........................................... 71 Section 5.01. Pledge Effected by This Indenture............................................................ 71 Section 5.02. Establishment of Funds and Accounts...................................................... 72 Section 5.03. Project Fund.............................................................................................. 73 Section 5.04. Revenues and Revenue Fund; Other Amounts......................................... 74 Section 5.05. Payments from Revenue Fund .................................................................. 75 Section 5.06. Operating Fund ......................................................................................... 76 Section 5.07. Debt Service Fund—Debt Service Account ............................................. 76 Section 5.08. Debt Service Fund–Redemption Account ................................................ 79 Section 5.09. Commodity Swap Payment Fund ............................................................. 79 Section 5.10. General Reserve Fund............................................................................... 79 Section 5.11. Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund .......................................................... 80 Section 5.12. Assignment Payment Fund ....................................................................... 81 Section 5.13. Purchases of Bonds................................................................................... 81 Section 5.14. Administrative Fee Fund........................................................................... 81
ARTICLE VI DEPOSITORIES OF MONEYS, SECURITY FOR DEPOSITS AND INVESTMENT OF FUNDS................................................................................................................................ 82 Section 6.01. Depositories .............................................................................................. 82 Section 6.02. Deposits..................................................................................................... 82 Item 2
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-iii-Section 6.03. Investment of Certain Funds..................................................................... 83 Section 6.04. Valuation and Sale of Investments ........................................................... 84 ARTICLE VII PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER................................................................ 85 Section 7.01. Payment of Bonds..................................................................................... 85 Section 7.02. Extension of Payment of Bonds................................................................ 85 Section 7.03. Offices for Servicing Bonds...................................................................... 86 Section 7.04. Further Assurance ..................................................................................... 86 Section 7.05. Power To Issue Bonds and Pledge the Trust Estate.................................. 86 Section 7.06. Power To Fix and Collect Fees and Charges for the Sale of Energy........ 86 Section 7.07. Creation of Liens....................................................................................... 86 Section 7.08. [Reserved]................................................................................................. 87 Section 7.09. Limitations on Operating Expenses and Other Costs............................... 87 Section 7.10. Amendments to Power Supply Contracts................................................. 87 Section 7.11. Power Supply Contract; Energy Remarketing.......................................... 88 Section 7.12. Energy Purchase Agreement..................................................................... 89 Section 7.13. [Reserved]................................................................................................. 89 Section 7.14. Commodity Swaps.................................................................................... 89 Section 7.15. Interest Rate Swap .................................................................................... 90 Section 7.16. Accounts and Reports............................................................................... 90 Section 7.17. Payment of Taxes and Charges................................................................. 91 Section 7.18. Tax Covenants .......................................................................................... 91 Section 7.19. General...................................................................................................... 92 Section 7.20. Bankruptcy................................................................................................ 92 Section 7.21. [Reserved]................................................................................................. 92 Section 7.22. [Reserved]................................................................................................. 92 Section 7.23. Avoidance of Failed Remarketing ............................................................ 92 ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES ..................................................................... 93 Section 8.01. Events of Default ...................................................................................... 93 Section 8.02. Accounting and Examination of Records After Default........................... 94 Section 8.03. Enforcement of Agreements; Application of Moneys after Default......... 94 Section 8.04. Appointment of Receiver.......................................................................... 96 Section 8.05. Proceedings Brought by Trustee............................................................... 96 Section 8.06. Restriction on Bondholder’s Action ......................................................... 96 Section 8.07. Remedies Not Exclusive ........................................................................... 97 Section 8.08. Effect of Waiver and Other Circumstances.............................................. 97 Section 8.09. Notice of Default....................................................................................... 97 ARTICLE IX CONCERNING THE FIDUCIARIES................................................................................. 98 Section 9.01. Acceptance by Trustee of Duties.............................................................. 98 Section 9.02. Paying Agents; Appointment and Acceptance of Duties.......................... 98 Section 9.03. Responsibilities of Fiduciaries.................................................................. 98 Section 9.04. Evidence on Which Fiduciaries May Act ................................................. 99 Item 2
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-iv-Section 9.05. Compensation ......................................................................................... 100 Section 9.06. Certain Permitted Acts............................................................................ 100 Section 9.07. Resignation of Trustee ............................................................................ 101 Section 9.08. Removal of the Trustee........................................................................... 101 Section 9.09. Appointment of Successor Trustee ......................................................... 101 Section 9.10. Transfer of Rights and Property to Successor Trustee............................ 102 Section 9.11. Merger or Consolidation......................................................................... 102 Section 9.12. Adoption of Authentication .................................................................... 102 Section 9.13. Resignation or Removal of Paying Agent and Appointment of Successor................................................................................................. 102 Section 9.14. Trustee’s Reliance................................................................................... 103 Section 9.15. Trustee’s Liability................................................................................... 103 Section 9.16. Trustee’s Agents or Attorneys................................................................ 105 Section 9.17. Notice of Lien Filings............................................................................. 105 ARTICLE X SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES ................................................................................... 105 Section 10.01. Supplemental Indentures Not Requiring Consent of Bondholders......... 105 Section 10.02. Supplemental Indentures Effective With Consent of Bondholders........ 107 Section 10.03. General Provisions.................................................................................. 107 ARTICLE XI AMENDMENTS ......................................................................................................... 108 Section 11.01. Mailing.................................................................................................... 108 Section 11.02. Powers of Amendment............................................................................ 108 Section 11.03. Consent of Bondholders.......................................................................... 109 Section 11.04. Notifications by Unanimous Consent ..................................................... 110 Section 11.05. Exclusion of Bonds................................................................................. 110 Section 11.06. Notation on Bonds .................................................................................. 110 ARTICLE XII MISCELLANEOUS ................................................................................................... 111 Section 12.01. Defeasance .............................................................................................. 111 Section 12.02. Evidence of Signatures of Bondholders and Ownership of Bonds......... 114 Section 12.03. Moneys Held for Particular Bonds ......................................................... 115 Section 12.04. Preservation and Inspection of Documents............................................. 115 Section 12.05. Parties Interested Herein ......................................................................... 115 Section 12.06. No Recourse on the Bonds; Non-Liability of the Issuer......................... 115 Section 12.07. Publication of Notice; Suspension of Publication .................................. 115 Section 12.08. Severability of Invalid Provisions........................................................... 116 Section 12.09. Holidays.................................................................................................. 116 Section 12.10. Notices .................................................................................................... 116 Section 12.11. Notices to Rating Agencies..................................................................... 117 Section 12.12. Counterparts............................................................................................ 117 Section 12.13. Waiver of Jury Trial................................................................................ 117 Section 12.14. Electronic Signatures.............................................................................. 118 Item 2
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-v-Exhibit A — Form of Bonds
Exhibit B — Form of Index Rate Determination Certificate Exhibit C — Form of Written Direction and Redemption Notice Exhibit D — Form of Index Rate Continuation Notice
Schedule I — Initial Project Participant
Schedule II — Scheduled Debt Service Deposits
Schedule III — Terms of Commodity Swaps
Schedule IV — Amortized Value of Series 2025[_] Bonds
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TRUST INDENTURE
THIS TRUST INDENTURE, dated as of September 1, 2025 (this “Indenture”), is by and between California Community Choice Financing Authority, a joint powers authority and public entity of the State of California (the “Issuer”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States and authorized to accept and execute trusts of the character herein, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the Act (capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given such terms in Section 1.01 hereof), Central Coast Community Energy, East Bay Community Energy Authority, Marin Clean Energy, and Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to which the Issuer was organized and established for the purpose, among other things, of entering into contracts for electricity and energy services and agreements for services to facilitate the sale and purchase of electricity and other related services, and for issuing bonds to assist the Members (as defined herein) in financing such contracts, agreements, purchases, sales and services; and WHEREAS, the Issuer is authorized under the Act to acquire electricity and energy services and enter into agreements for services to facilitate the sale and purchase of electricity and other related services, and to issue revenue bonds to finance the cost of acquisition of such electricity and energy services and other agreements, and is vested with all powers necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it was created; and
WHEREAS, the Issuer has determined to finance the Cost of Acquisition of the Clean Energy Project through the issuance of Bonds pursuant to this Indenture; and WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this Indenture has been in all respects duly and validly authorized and approved by resolution of the Board of the Issuer; and WHEREAS, the Trustee is willing to accept the trusts provided for in this Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, and the Issuer and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of the other, for the benefit of the Holders of the Bonds issued pursuant hereto and the other parties secured hereby:
GRANTING CLAUSES
FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF the premises, the mutual covenants of the Issuer and the Trustee herein, the purchase of the Bonds by the Holders thereof and the obligations of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap, if any, and in order to secure:
(i) the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds and the payment of the Interest Rate Swap Payments, in each case according to the tenor and effect of the Bonds and the Interest Rate Swap, and Item 2
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2 (ii) the performance and observance by the Issuer of all the covenants expressed or implied in this Indenture and in the Bonds,
the Issuer does hereby grant to the Trustee a lien on and security interest in the Trust Estate and convey, assign and pledge unto the Trustee and its successors in trust, all right, title and interest of the Issuer in and to the Trust Estate, subject to conveyance, assignment and pledge of the Commodity Swap Payment Fund in favor of the Commodity Swap Counterparties as set forth below, and further subject to the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, and all other rights hereinafter granted for the further securing of the Bonds; FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF the obligations of the Commodity Swap Counterparties under the Commodity Swaps and the mutual covenants of the Issuer and the Commodity Swap Counterparties thereunder, and in order to secure the payment of the Commodity Swap Payments, the Issuer does hereby convey, assign and pledge unto the Trustee and its successors in trust, all right, title and interest of the Issuer in the Commodity Swap Payment Fund and the amounts on deposit therein, subject to the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, which conveyance, assignment and pledge shall have priority over the foregoing conveyance, assignment and pledge of the Commodity Swap Payment Fund and the amounts and investments on deposit therein in favor of the Bonds and the Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all the same with all privileges and appurtenances hereby and hereafter conveyed and assigned, or agreed or intended so to be, to the Trustee and its respective successors in said trust and assigns forever;
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms and trusts herein set forth for the equal and proportionate benefit, security and protection of (i) all Holders of the Bonds without privilege, priority or distinction as to the lien or otherwise of any Bond over any other Bond or the payment of interest with respect to any Bond over the payment of interest with respect to any other Bond, except as otherwise provided herein, and (ii) the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty, if any; and PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Issuer, its successors or assigns shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, the principal or Redemption Price, if any, on the Bonds and the interest due or to become due thereon, the Commodity Swap Payments and the Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any, at the times and in the manner provided in the Bonds, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap, respectively, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall cause the payments to be made into the Funds as required hereunder, or shall provide, as permitted hereby, for the payment thereof as provided in Section 12.01, and shall well and truly keep and perform and observe all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be kept, performed and observed by it, and shall pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums of money due or to become due to it in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof, then upon such final payments or provisions for such payments by the Issuer, the Bonds, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap shall cease to be entitled to any lien, benefit or security under this Indenture, and all covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer to the Holders of the Bonds shall thereupon cease, terminate and be discharged and satisfied; otherwise this Indenture shall remain in full force and effect.
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3 The terms and conditions upon which the Bonds are to be issued, authenticated, delivered, secured and accepted by all Persons who from time to time shall be or become the Holders thereof, and the trusts and conditions upon which the Revenues, moneys, securities and funds held or set aside under this Indenture, subject to the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, are to be held and disposed of, which said trusts and conditions the Trustee hereby accepts, and the respective parties hereto covenant and agree, are as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND GOVERNING LAW
Section 1.01. Definitions. The following terms shall, for all purposes of this Indenture, have the following meanings:
“Account” or “Accounts” means, as the case may be, each or all of the Accounts established in Sections 4.15 and 5.02.
“Accountant’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by an independent certified public accountant or a firm of independent certified public accountants, selected by the Issuer, who may be the accountant or firm of accountants who regularly audit the books of the Issuer and must be identified upon selection in writing to the Trustee.
“Act” means the Joint Exercise of Powers Act constituting Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of the California Government Code, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Administrative Fee Fund” means the Administrative Fee Fund established in Section 5.02.
“Advance” means the amounts paid to the Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer, pursuant to the Custodial Agreements.
“Alternate Liquidity Facility” means a Liquidity Facility for a Series of Bonds delivered to the Trustee in substitution for a Liquidity Facility then in effect with respect to such Bonds. “Amortized Value” means, with respect to any Bond to be redeemed when a Term Rate Period is in effect with respect to such Bond, the principal amount of such Bond multiplied by the price of such Bond expressed as a percentage, calculated by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, selected by the Issuer, based on the industry standard method of calculating bond prices (as such industry standard prevailed on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate), with a delivery date equal to the date of redemption of such Bond, a maturity date equal to the earlier of (a) the stated maturity date of such Bond or (b) the Term Rate Tender Date of such Bond and a yield equal to such Bond’s original reoffering yield on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate. The Amortized Value of the Bonds as of certain dates during the Initial Interest Rate Period is set forth in Schedule IV.
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4 “Applicable Factor” means (a) with respect to the initial issuance of a Series of Bonds bearing interest at a SOFR Index Rate, the percentage or factor of the SOFR Index determined by the Underwriter and specified in the Index Rate Determination Certificate for such Series of Bonds, or (b) with respect to a Series of Bonds for which the Interest Rate Period is being converted to a SOFR Index Rate Period (including a change in such Interest Rate Period from one SOFR Index Rate Period to another SOFR Index Rate Period), the percentage or factor of the SOFR Index determined by the Remarketing Agent and specified in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate or Index Rate Continuation Notice, provided in each case that the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel addressing the selection of such percentage or factor. The Applicable Factor shall be determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, in accordance with Section 2.09(a) and included in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate, and once determined shall remain constant for the duration of the applicable SOFR Index Rate Period.
“Applicable Spread” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds for which the Interest Rate Period is an Index Rate Period, or for any Series of Bonds for which the Interest Rate Period is converted to an Index Rate Period, the margin or spread, which may be positive or negative, determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, in accordance with Section 2.09(a), on or prior to the Issue Date or Conversion Date for such Bonds, as applicable, and specified in the applicable Supplemental Indenture or Index Rate Determination Certificate or Index Rate Continuation Notice, as applicable, which shall be added to the applicable Index (or the product of the Applicable Factor and the applicable Index, as the case may be) to determine the Index Rate. Once so determined, the Applicable Spread shall remain constant for the duration of the applicable Index Rate Period. The Applicable Spread shall be determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, in accordance with Section 2.09(a) and included in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate.
“Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate” means, for the Bonds of any maturity, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the year of such maturity or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, as published by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. at least one Business Day and not more than 15 Business Days prior to the date that notice of redemption is required to be given pursuant to Section 4.04. If no such yield curve rate is established for the applicable year, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the applicable year shall be determined, and the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yield curve rates on a straight line basis. This rate is made available daily by Refinitiv Global Markets and is available to its subscribers through its internet address: www.tm3.com. In calculating the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate, should Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. no longer publish the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate, then the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall equal the Consensus Scale yield curve rate for the applicable year. The Consensus Scale yield curve rate is made available daily by Municipal Market Analytics and is available to its subscribers through its internet address: www.mma-research.com. In the further event Municipal Market Analytics, Inc. no longer publishes the Consensus Scale, the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be determined by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, based upon the rate per annum equal to the annual yield to maturity, calculated using semi-annual compounding, of those tax exempt general obligation bonds rated in the highest Rating Category by Moody’s and S&P with a maturity Item 2
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5 date equal to the stated maturity date or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, of such Bonds having characteristics (other than the ratings) most comparable to those of such Bonds in the judgment of the quotation agent. The quotation agent’s determination of the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be final and binding on all parties in the absence of manifest error and may be conclusively relied upon in good faith by the Trustee. “Assignment Payment” means any payment received from the Energy Supplier, or the Master Custodian on its behalf, in connection with an assignment of the Energy Management Agreement to a replacement Seller, as such term is defined in the Energy Management Agreement.
All references herein to payments made by or received from the Energy Supplier shall be deemed to include payments made by or received from the Master Custodian for and on behalf of the Energy Supplier.
“Assignment Payment Fund” means the Assignment Payment Fund established in Section 5.02.
“Attesting Party” means an individual authorized by a resolution of the Board to attest the signatures of Authorized Officers.
“Authorized Denominations” means with respect to any (a) Term Rate Period or Index Rate Period, $5,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and (b) Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, Daily Interest Rate Period or Weekly Interest Rate Period, $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $100,000.
“Authorized Newspaper” means The Wall Street Journal or The Bond Buyer or any other newspaper or journal printed in the English language and customarily published on each Business Day devoted to financial news and selected by the Issuer, with prior written notice to and approval of the Trustee, whose decision shall be final.
“Authorized Officer” means (a) the Treasurer/Controller of the Issuer, and (b) any other person or persons designated by the Board by resolution to act on behalf of the Issuer under this Indenture. The designation of such person or persons shall be evidenced by a Written Certificate of the Issuer delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee containing the specimen signature of such person or persons and signed on behalf of the Issuer by its Treasurer/Controller, which incumbency certificate shall be amended by the Issuer, with notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and the Custodian, whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. Such designation as an Authorized Officer shall remain in effect until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives actual written notice from the Issuer to the contrary, accompanied by a new certificate.
“Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to Bonds registered in the Book Entry System, any Person who acquires a beneficial ownership interest in a Bond held by the Securities Depository, and the term “Beneficial Ownership” shall be interpreted accordingly. “BLS” means the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Issuer, or if said Board is abolished, the board, body, commission or agency succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the power Item 2
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6 and duties granted or imposed by this Indenture are given by law, and which shall be identified in a Written Notice of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee. “Bond” or “Bonds” means any of the Bonds and Refunding Bonds authorized by Section 2.01 of, and at any time Outstanding pursuant to, this Indenture. “Bond Counsel” means Ballard Spahr LLP or any other counsel of nationally recognized standing in matters pertaining to the tax exempt status of interest on obligations issued by states and their political subdivisions and instrumentalities, duly admitted to the practice of law before the highest court of any state of the United States, and selected by the Issuer. “Bond Payment Date” means each date on which (a) interest on the Bonds is due and payable, (b) an Interest Rate Swap Payment, if any, is due, or (c) principal of the Bonds is payable at maturity or pursuant to Sinking Fund Installments.
“Bond Purchase Fund” means the fund by that name established pursuant to Section 4.15(a), including the Remarketing Proceeds Account and the Issuer Purchase Account therein.
“Bond Registrar” means the Trustee and any other bank or trust company organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America or national banking association appointed by the Issuer to perform the duties of Bond Registrar under this Indenture. “Bondholder” or “Holder of Bonds” or “Holder” or “Owner” means any Person who shall be the registered owner of any Bond or Bonds.
“Book Entry System” means the system maintained by the Securities Depository and described in Section 3.09.
“Business Day” means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which commercial banks in New York, New York, or the city in which is located the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee, the Custodian, or the Calculation Agent are authorized by law or executive order to close, (c) a day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is closed, (d) a day on which the payment system of the Federal Reserve System is not operational, and (e) for purposes of determining the SIFMA Index Rate and the SOFR Index Rate, any day other than Saturday, a Sunday, or a day that SIFMA recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading fixed-income securities. With respect to any action required to be taken by the Issuer hereunder, the term “Business Day” shall exclude any date on which the operational offices of the Issuer are authorized by law or executive order to close.
“Calculation Agent” means, with respect to any Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, the Calculation Agent with respect to such Bonds appointed by the Issuer, with written notice to the Trustee, pursuant to the applicable Calculation Agent Agreement and the Indenture. “Calculation Agent Agreement” means, with respect to any Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, such agreement as is entered into by the applicable Calculation Agent and the Issuer with respect to such Series of Bonds providing for the determination of the applicable Index Item 2
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7 Rate in accordance with Section 2.09 or Section 2.14, as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or modified pursuant to the terms thereof and this Indenture, as applicable. “Cede” means Cede & Co., the nominee of DTC, and any successor nominee of DTC with respect to the Bonds pursuant to Section 3.09.
“Clean Energy Project” means the Issuer’s purchase of Energy pursuant to the Energy Purchase Agreement and related contractual arrangements and agreements, and the purchase of any Energy to replace Energy not delivered as required pursuant to the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each period comprised of CP Interest Terms for the Bonds of such Series, during which CP Interest Term Rates are in effect for the Bonds of such Series.
“Commodity Swap” means, individually, and “Commodity Swaps” means, collectively, (i) ISDA Master Agreement, Schedule and Confirmation between the Issuer and [Commodity Swap Counterparty #1], (ii) ISDA Master Agreement, Schedule and Confirmation between the Issuer and [Commodity Swap Counterparty #2], and (iii) any replacement agreement permitted by Section 2.12(b), each pursuant to which the Issuer will pay to the respective Commodity Swap Counterparty an index based floating price and such Commodity Swap Counterparty will pay to the Issuer a fixed price in relation to the quantities of Energy to be delivered under the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Commodity Swap Counterparty” means, individually, and “Commodity Swap Counterparties” means, collectively, (i) [__], and its successors and assigns (“[Commodity Swap Counterparty #1]”), (ii) [__], and its successors and assigns (“[Commodity Swap Counterparty #2]”), and (iii) the counterparty to any replacement Commodity Swap that meets the requirements of Section 2.12(b).
“Commodity Swap Mandatory Termination Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(c)(iii).
“Commodity Swap Payment Fund” means the Commodity Swap Payment Fund established in Section 5.02.
“Commodity Swap Payments” means, as of each scheduled payment date specified in a Commodity Swap, the amount, if any, payable to the Commodity Swap Counterparty thereto by the Issuer (including any such amount paid to the Custodian pursuant to Section 3 of each Issuer Custodial Agreement).
“Commodity Swap Receipts” means, as of each scheduled payment date specified in a Commodity Swap, the amount, if any, payable to the Issuer by the Commodity Swap Counterparty thereto.
“Continuing Disclosure Undertaking” means the Continuing Disclosure Undertaking, dated the date hereof, between the Issuer and the Dissemination Agent, as the same may be amended from time to time.
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8 “Contract Price” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Power Supply Contracts. “Conversion” means (a) a conversion of a Series of Bonds from one Interest Rate Period to another Interest Rate Period, (b) with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, the establishment of a new Index, a new Index Rate and/or a new Index Rate Period and (c) with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest in a Term Rate Period, the establishment of a new Term Rate and/or a new Term Rate Period. A Conversion may occur only on a Mandatory Purchase Date.
“Conversion Date” means the effective date of a Conversion of a Series of Bonds and shall occur only on a Mandatory Purchase Date.
“Cost of Acquisition” means all costs of planning, financing, refinancing, acquiring, transmitting, storing and implementing Clean Energy Project, including:
(a) the amount of the prepayment required to be made by the Issuer under the Energy Purchase Agreement;
(b) the amount for deposit into the Capitalized Interest Subaccount of the Debt Service Account for capitalized interest on the Bonds, with such interest being calculated in accordance with the definition of “Debt Service;”
(c) the costs and expenses incurred in the issuance and sale of the Bonds, including, without limitation, legal, financial advisory, accounting, engineering, consulting, municipal advisory, financing, technical, fiscal agent and underwriting costs, fees and expenses, bond discount, rating agency fees, and all other costs and expenses incurred in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the Bonds and preparation of this Indenture;
(d) all other costs incurred in connection with and properly chargeable to, the acquisition or implementation of the Clean Energy Project; (e) the allowance for working capital requirements of the Issuer with respect to the Clean Energy Project in such amounts as shall be deemed reasonably necessary by the Issuer; and
(f) with respect to any Series of Refunding Bonds, the amounts necessary to purchase, redeem and discharge Bonds being refunded, including the payment of the Purchase Price or the Redemption Price of such Bonds, any necessary deposits to the Debt Service Account, and all other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Series of Refunding Bonds, including the costs and expenses described in (e) and (f) above. “CP Interest Term” means, with respect to a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, each period established in accordance with Section 2.08 during which a CP Interest Term Rate is in effect for the Bonds of such Series.
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9 “CP Interest Term Rate” means, with respect to any Bond of a Series of Bonds in the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an interest rate established periodically for each CP Interest Term in accordance with Section 2.08.
“CP Mandatory Purchase Date” means (i) each Mandatory Purchase Date and (ii) the day next succeeding the last day of each CP Interest Term.
“CPI” means, the non-seasonally adjusted U.S. City Average All Items Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (“CPI”), published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor (“BLS”) and reported on Bloomberg CPURNSA or any successor service (“Bloomberg CPURNSA”). If such index is not then reported by such source but the CPI has otherwise been reported by the BLS, the Calculation Agent will determine the CPI as published by the BLS for such Month using a source it deems to be accurate and appropriate. “CPI Index Rate Formula” means (i) the total of CPI for the applicable Reference Month less CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month, divided by (ii) CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month, which formula would be expressed mathematically as ((CPIt — CPIt-12) / CPIt-12), where:
CPIt = CPI for the applicable Reference Month; and
CPIt-12 = CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month.
All values used in the CPI Index Rate Formula will be truncated to six decimal places and rounded to the nearest fifth decimal place (one hundred thousandth of a percentage point), rounding upwards if the sixth decimal place is five or greater (e.g., 9.876555% (or .09876555) would be rounded up to 9.87656% (or .0987656) and 9.876554% (or .09876554) would be rounded down to 9.87655% (or .0987655)). All percentages resulting from any calculation of the interest rate will be truncated to four decimal places and rounded to the nearest third decimal place (one thousandth of a percentage point), rounding upwards if the fourth decimal place is five or greater (e.g.,
9.8765% (or .098765) would be rounded up to 9.877% (or .09877) and 9.8764% (or .098764) would be rounded down to 9.876% (or .09876)). All dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on Bonds bearing interest at the CPI Index Rate will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward).
If the sum of (i) the CPI Index Rate Formula and (ii) the Applicable Spread on any CPI Index Rate Reset Date yields a number equal to or less than zero, the interest rate on such CPI Index Rate Bonds shall be 0.00% (zero percent) for the applicable month. “CPI Index Rate” means the interest rate per annum determined by the Calculation Agent equal to the sum of (a) the result of the CPI Interest Rate Formula, plus (b) the Applicable Spread, as set forth in Section 2.14.
“CPI Index Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each period during which a CPI Index Rate is in effect for such Bonds.
“CPI Index Rate Reset Date” means, the first Business Day of each calendar month.
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10 “CPI Interest Period” means the period from and including a CPI Index Rate Reset Date, to but excluding the next following CPI Index Rate Reset Date. “Custodial Agreements” means, collectively, the Energy Supplier Custodial Agreements and the Issuer Custodial Agreements.
“Custodian” means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Custodian under the Custodial Agreements and its successors and assigns. “Daily Interest Rate” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, the final daily interest rate for such Bonds determined by the Remarketing Agent by 11:00 a.m. New York City time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Daily Interest Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each period during which a Daily Interest Rate is in effect for such Bonds. “Debt Service” means with respect to any Outstanding Bonds, for any particular period of time, an amount equal to the sum of:
(a) all interest payable during such period on such Bonds, but excluding any interest that is to be paid from Bond proceeds on deposit in the Debt Service Account, plus (b) the Principal Installments payable during such period on such Bonds, calculated on the assumption that, on the day of calculation, such Bonds cease to be Outstanding by reason of, but only by reason of, payment either upon maturity or application of any Sinking Fund Installments required by this Indenture; provided that (i) the interest on any Bonds with a related Interest Rate Swap shall be calculated on the basis of the fixed interest rate payable by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap, and (ii) principal and interest due on the first day of a Fiscal Year shall be deemed to have been payable and paid on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Year. “Debt Service Account” means the Debt Service Account in the Debt Service Fund established in Section 5.02.
“Debt Service Fund” means the Debt Service Fund established in Section 5.02. “Debt Service Fund Agreement” means any debt service fund agreement, that is a Qualified Investment, among the Trustee, the Issuer and a provider, or between the Issuer and a provider and assigned to the Trustee, relating to amounts deposited in the Debt Service Account of the Debt Service Fund. The initial Debt Service Fund Agreement shall be the Debt Service Account Investment Agreement between the Issuer and [Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc.], dated the Initial Issue Date.
“Debt Service Fund Agreement Guaranty” means any unconditional guaranty, in favor of the Issuer and the Trustee, guarantying the obligations of the provider under any Debt Service Fund Agreement.
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11 “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.08. “Defeasance Securities” means (a) Government Obligations and (b) to the extent that such deposits or certificates of deposit are Qualified Investments, deposits in interest-bearing time deposits or certificates of deposit which shall not be subject to redemption or repayment prior to their maturity or due date other than at the option of the depositor or holder thereof or as to which an irrevocable notice of redemption or repayment, or irrevocable instructions have been given to call for redemption or repayment, of such time deposits or certificates of deposit on a specified redemption or repayment date has been given and such time deposits or certificates of deposit are not otherwise subject to redemption or repayment prior to such specified date other than at the option of the depositor or holder thereof, and which are fully secured by Government Obligations to the extent not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. “Depository” means any bank, trust company, national banking association, savings and loan association, savings bank or other banking association selected by the Issuer as a depository of moneys and securities held under the provisions of this Indenture, and may include the Trustee. “Dissemination Agent” means that certain dissemination agent appointed by the Issuer, pursuant to the Continuing Disclosure Undertaking, and any successor Dissemination Agent appointed by the Issuer in accordance with the Continuing Disclosure Undertaking. “DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, and its successors and assigns.
“Early Termination Payment Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 17.4(d) of the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Electronic Means” means the following communication methods: e-mail, facsimile transmission, secure electronic transmission containing applicable authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys issued by the Trustee, or another method or system specified by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee as available for use in connection with its services hereunder. “Eligible Bonds” means any Bonds other than Bonds which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be owned by, for the account of, or on behalf of the Issuer or a Project Participant.
“EMMA” means the Electronic Municipal Market Access system, the website currently maintained by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and any successor municipal securities disclosure website approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Energy” has the meaning given to such term in the Power Supply Contracts. “Energy Management Agreement” means the Energy Management Agreement, dated as of [__], 2025, between the Energy Supplier and Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. [Confirm] “Energy Purchase Agreement” means the Prepaid Energy Sales Agreement, dated as of [__], 2025, between the Issuer and the Energy Supplier.
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12 “Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund” means the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund in established in Section 5.02.
“Energy Supplier” means Energy Prepay [__], LLC.
“Energy Supplier Custodial Agreement” means, individually, and “Energy Supplier Custodial Agreements” means, collectively, each Custodial Agreement dated as of the Initial Issue Date among each Commodity Swap Counterparty, the Energy Supplier, the Trustee and the Custodian.
“Energy Supplier Documents” means (i) the Energy Purchase Agreement, (ii) the Energy Management Agreement, (iii) the Funding Agreement, (iv) the Master Custodial Agreement, (v) the Energy Supplier LLCA, and (vi) the Seller Swap (as defined in the Energy Purchase Agreement).
“Energy Supplier LLCA” means the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Energy Supplier, dated as of [__], 2025. “Event of Default” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.01. “Extraordinary Expenses” means extraordinary and nonrecurring expenses. Termination payments under a Commodity Swap shall not be considered an Extraordinary Expense. “Failed Remarketing” means, (a) with respect to the Bonds on any Mandatory Purchase Date, a failure to either (i) pay the Purchase Price of the Bonds required to be purchased on such date or (ii) redeem such Bonds in whole on such date (including from any funds required from an Assignment Payment to the Assignment Payment Fund) or (b) with respect to the Bonds (i) if, on the last day of the current Reset Period prior to a Mandatory Purchase Date, the Issuer has not entered into a bond purchase agreement, firm remarketing agreement or similar agreement with respect to the remarketing or refunding of such existing Bonds, or (ii) if the conditions of (b)(i) above are satisfied, but the Purchase Price of the Bonds required to be purchased on the Mandatory Purchase Date is not delivered to the Trustee by noon New York City time on the fifth Business Day preceding such Mandatory Purchase Date.
“Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel” means an Opinion of Bond Counsel to the effect that an action proposed to be taken is not prohibited by this Indenture and will not, in and of itself, cause interest on the applicable Bonds to be included in gross income for purposes of federal income taxation.
“Fiduciary” or “Fiduciaries” means the Trustee, the Paying Agents, the Bond Registrar, the Calculation Agents, the Custodian, the tender agent or any or all of them, as may be appropriate.
“Final Fixed Rate Conversion Date” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, the date on which such Bonds begin to bear interest for a Term Rate Period which extends to the Final Maturity Date for such Series of Bonds.
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13 “Final Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, [_____] 1, 20[__] and (b) with respect to any other Series of Bonds, the final Maturity Date set forth in the related Supplemental Indenture.
“Fiscal Year” means (a) the twelve-month period beginning on January 1 of each year and ending on and including the next December 31, or (b) such other twelve-month period established by the Issuer from time to time, upon Written Notice to the Trustee, as its fiscal year. “Fitch” means Fitch Ratings, Inc., its successors and assigns, and, if such corporation shall no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency, “Fitch” shall be deemed to refer to any other nationally recognized securities rating agency designated by the Issuer in a Written Notice delivered to the Trustee.
“Fund” or “Funds” means, as the case may be, each or all of the Funds established in Section 5.02 and Section 4.15.
“Funding Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Funding Recipient” has the meaning given to such term in the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“General Reserve Fund” means the General Reserve Fund established in Section 5.02. “Government Obligations” means:
(a) Direct obligations of (including obligations issued or held in book entry form on the books of) the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America, obligations unconditionally guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States of America, and evidences of ownership interests in such direct or unconditionally guaranteed obligations; or
(b) Any bonds or other obligations of any state of the United States of America or of any agency, instrumentality or local governmental unit of any such state which: (i) are not callable at the option of the obligor prior to maturity or as to which irrevocable notice has been given by the obligor to call such bonds or obligations on the date specified in the notice; (ii) are rated in the two highest Rating Categories of S&P and Moody’s; and (iii) are fully secured as to principal and interest and redemption premium, if any, by a fund consisting only of cash or obligations described in clause (a) above, which fund may be applied only to the payment of interest when due, principal of and redemption premium, if any, on such bonds or other obligations on the maturity date or dates thereof or the specified redemption date or dates pursuant to such irrevocable notice, as appropriate; or (c) Any other bonds, notes or obligations of the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof which, if deposited with the Trustee for the purpose described in Section 12.01(c), will result in a rating on the Bonds which are deemed to Item 2
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14 have been paid pursuant to Section 12.01(c) that is in the same Rating Category of the obligations listed in subsection (a) above.
The determination as to whether any bond, note or other obligation constitutes a Government Obligation shall be made solely at the time of initial investment or purchase; provided that, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for monitoring any ratings or determining whether any bond, note or other obligation is or continues to be a Government Obligation. “Increased Interest Rate” means (a) during the Initial Interest Rate Period, [8]% per annum, and (b) during any subsequent Interest Rate Period, the rate (if any) set forth in a Supplemental Indenture or Written Direction of the Issuer with respect to such Interest Rate Period; provided that the Increased Interest Rate shall be payable for the Increased Interest Rate Period only to the extent Issuer receives Ledger Event Payments.
“Increased Interest Rate Period” means the period from and including the date on which a Ledger Event occurs to but not including the earliest of: (a) the date on which an Early Termination Payment Date occurs and (b) the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date or any prior redemption date, and (c) the Interest Payment Date immediately succeeding the last date on which the Energy Supplier paid a Ledger Event Payment.
“Indenture” means this Trust Indenture as from time to time amended or supplemented by Supplemental Indentures in accordance with the terms hereof. “Index” means the SIFMA Index, the SOFR Index or CPI, as applicable. “Index Rate” means a SIFMA Index Rate, the SOFR Index Rate or a CPI Index Rate, as applicable.
“Index Rate Continuation Notice” means a Written Notice delivered by the Issuer in the form of Exhibit D hereto pursuant to Section 2.09(c) or Section 2.14(c)(i). “Index Rate Determination Certificate” means a Written Certificate delivered by the Issuer in the form of Exhibit B hereto pursuant to Section 2.09(b)(i) or Section 2.14(b)(i). “Index Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, an Interest Rate Period during which the Bonds of such Series bear interest at an Index Rate. “Index Rate Reset Date” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, each date on which the applicable Index Rate is determined by the Calculation Agent based on the change in the applicable Index as of such date, which shall be the date or dates so specified in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate or Index Rate Continuation Notice with respect to such Index Rate Period (including, by way of example and not limitation, each Business Day, Thursday of each week, the first Business Day of each calendar month, the first Business Day of a calendar quarter or SOFR Effective Date). “Index Rate Tender Date” means, with respect to any Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the date so specified in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate or Index Rate Continuation Notice with respect to such Index Rate, which date shall be the next-occurring Item 2
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15 Mandatory Purchase Date, which shall be a date not later than the Final Maturity Date. The Index Rate Tender Date shall always be a Business Day, unless such date is the Final Maturity Date. If a date (other than the Final Maturity Date) that is not a Business Day is specified as an Index Rate Tender Date, then the Index Rate Tender Date shall be the Business Day immediately following such specified date.
“Initial Interest Rate Period” means, with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, the period from the Initial Issue Date to and including [_______], 20[__]; provided that in the event that all of the Series 2025[_] Bonds are redeemed (or purchased in lieu of redemption) pursuant to Section 4.03, the Initial Interest Rate Period shall end on and as of the day of such redemption or purchase.
“Initial Issue Date” means the date of initial issuance and delivery of the Series 2025[_] Bonds.
“Initial Mandatory Purchase Date” means [__] 1, 20[__], which is the day following the last day of the Initial Interest Rate Period for the Series 2025[_] Bonds. “Interest Accrual Date” means, with respect to any Bond (a) during any Daily Interest Rate Period or Weekly Interest Rate Period for such Bond, the first day thereof and, thereafter, each Interest Payment Date in respect thereof other than the last such Interest Payment Date during that Daily Interest Rate Period or Weekly Interest Rate Period, as applicable, (b) during any Index Rate Period for such Bond, the first day thereof and, thereafter each Interest Payment Date in respect thereof other than the last such Interest Payment Date during that Index Rate Period, except as otherwise provided in the Supplemental Indenture for such Bond, (c) during any Term Rate Period for such Bond, the first day thereof and, thereafter, each Interest Payment Date in respect thereof other than the last such Interest Payment Date during that Term Rate Period, and (d) for each CP Interest Term for such Bond within a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, the first day thereof. “Interest Payment Date” means, with respect to any Bond (a) during any Daily Interest Rate Period or Weekly Interest Rate Period for such Bond, the first Business Day of each Month, (b) during any Index Rate Period for such Bond, the first Business Day of each Month, except as otherwise provided by Supplemental Indenture for such Bond, (c) during any Term Rate Period for such Bond, each [__] 1 and [__] 1, provided that the first Interest Payment Date for any subsequent Term Rate Period shall be at least ninety (90) days from the first day of such period, (d) during any Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period for such Bond, the day next succeeding the last day of each CP Interest Term for such Bond, (e) any redemption date for such Bond, (f) any Mandatory Purchase Date for such Bond, and (g) the Maturity Date of such Bond. “Interest Rate Determination Certificate” means a certificate of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than 30 days prior to the effective date of the new Interest Rate Period, setting forth the applicable Interest Rate Period and, during such Interest Rate Period, the next occurring Mandatory Purchase Date, and (i) for Bonds bearing interest at a Term Rate, the interest rate(s) for such Bonds during such Interest Rate Period and (ii) for Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, the Index, the Index Rate Reset Date, the Applicable Spread, the Applicable Factor, and the CPI and the CPI Interest Period, if applicable, for such Bonds during such Interest Rate Period.
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16 “Interest Rate Period” means a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period, a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, a Term Rate Period or an Index Rate Period.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, all Bonds of a Series shall at all times bear interest in the same Interest Rate Period. All Interest Rate Periods for all Series of Bonds shall terminate on the first to occur of the day prior to (a) the next occurring Mandatory Purchase Date or (b) the Final Maturity Date.
“Interest Rate Swap” means (a) the ISDA Master Agreement, the Schedule thereto and each Confirmation thereunder between the Issuer and the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty, pursuant to which the Issuer agrees to make payments to the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty at a fixed rate of interest and the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty agrees to make payments to the Issuer at a floating rate equal to the rate of interest borne by a related Series of Variable Rate Bonds, in each case with a notional amount equal to the Outstanding principal amount of such Series of Bonds, and (b) any replacement interest rate swap agreement permitted by Section 2.13(b), in each case as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented, modified or amended pursuant to the terms thereof and this Indenture, as applicable; provided that, as long as no Interest Rate Swap has been entered into by the Issuer, all references herein to the Interest Rate Swap, Interest Rate Swap Counterparty, Interest Rate Swap Receipts and Interest Rate Swap Payments (including, without limitation, Section 7.15) shall be disregarded. “Interest Rate Swap Counterparty” means the counterparty to the Interest Rate Swap or replacement Interest Rate Swap, and any successor and assign thereof, that meets the requirements of Section 2.13(b).
“Interest Rate Swap Payments” means, as of each scheduled payment date specified in an Interest Rate Swap, the amount, if any, payable to an Interest Rate Swap Counterparty by the Issuer.
“Interest Rate Swap Receipts” means, as of each scheduled payment date specified in an Interest Rate Swap, the amount, if any, payable to the Issuer by an Interest Rate Swap Counterparty.
“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
References herein to sections of the Internal Revenue Code include the applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Issue Date” means (a) with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, the Initial Issue Date, and (b) with respect to any other Series of Bonds, the date of initial issuance and delivery of such Series.
“Issuer” means California Community Choice Financing Authority, a joint powers authority organized pursuant to the laws of the State of California, including without limitation, the Act.
“Issuer Custodial Agreement” means, individually, and “Issuer Custodial Agreements” means, collectively, each Custodial Agreement dated as of the Initial Issue Date among a Commodity Swap Counterparty, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Custodian.
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17 “Issuer Purchase Account” means the Account by that name in the Bond Purchase Fund. “Ledger Event” has the meaning given to such term in the Energy Purchase Agreement. “Ledger Event Payment” means a payment made from the Energy Supplier, as required by Section [17.3] of the Energy Purchase Agreement, at the Increased Interest Rate, directly into the Debt Service Account and which relates to a Ledger Event. “Liquidity Facility” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, a standby bond purchase agreement, letter of credit or similar facility providing liquidity support for such Series of Bonds and any Alternate Liquidity Facility provided in substitution of the foregoing. “Liquidity Facility Provider” means, with respect to a Liquidity Facility for a Series of Bonds, the commercial bank or other financial institution providing the same and any other commercial bank or other financial institution issuing or providing (or having primary obligation for, or acting as agent for the financial institutions obligated under) an Alternate Liquidity Facility. “Mandatory Purchase Date” means (i) the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date, and (ii) any subsequent date on which Bonds are required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.13 or Section 4.14, respectively.
“Master Custodial Agreement” means that certain Master Custodial Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Seller, Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., the Issuer and the Master Custodian, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. “Master Custodian” means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as custodian under the Master Custodial Agreement, and its successors as Master Custodian under the Master Custodial Agreement.
“Maturity Date” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each date upon which principal of such Bonds is due, as set forth in (a) Section 2.02(b) with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, and (b) the related Supplemental Indenture with respect to any other Series of Bonds. “Maximum Lawful Rate” means the maximum interest rate permitted by applicable law. “Maximum Rate” means the lesser of 12% per annum and the Maximum Lawful Rate. “Member” means each of Valley Clean Energy Alliance, Ava Community Energy Authority (formerly known as East Bay Community Energy), Peninsula Clean Energy Authority, San Diego Community Power, the City of San Jose through its community choice aggregator program known as San Jose Clean Energy, Sonoma Clean Power Authority, Central Coast Community Energy, Marin Clean Energy, Pioneer Community Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority and Clean Power Alliance of Southern California. “Minimum Daily Interest Rate” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest at a Daily Rate, the minimum rate determined by the Remarketing Agent by 10:00 a.m. New York City time pursuant to Section 2.05.
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18 “Minimum Rate” means 0.00% per annum.
“Month” means a calendar month.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., its successors and assigns, and, if such corporation shall no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency, “Moody’s” shall be deemed to refer to any other nationally recognized securities rating agency designated by the Issuer in a Written Notice delivered to the Trustee.
“Net Participant Shortfall Amount” means, for any Month in which the Project Participant fails to pay the full amount due under the Power Supply Contracts in time for such amount to be credited to the Revenue Fund for application pursuant to Section 5.05(a) and the full amount due by such Project Participant is not otherwise paid by the Energy Supplier pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions, an amount equal to the positive result (if any) of (i) such Project Participant’s Payment Deficiency Index Baseline for such Month minus (ii) the greater of (a) such Project Participant’s Payment Deficiency Fixed Baseline for such Month, and (b) the actual amount paid by such Project Participant for such Month, provided that if the foregoing does not result in a positive number, then no Net Participant Shortfall Amount will exist for such Project Participant for such Month.
“Operating Expenses” means, to the extent properly allocable to the Clean Energy Project, (a) the Issuer’s expenses for operation of the Clean Energy Project, including all Rebate Payments, costs, collateral deposits and other amounts (other than Commodity Swap Payments) necessary to maintain any Commodity Swap; and payments required under the Energy Purchase Agreement (which may, under certain circumstances, include imbalance charges and other miscellaneous payments) or required to be incurred under or in connection with the performance of the Issuer’s obligations under the Power Supply Contracts; (b) any other current expenses or obligations required to be paid by the Issuer under the provisions of this Indenture (other than Debt Service on the Bonds and deposits to the General Reserve Fund and the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund, or any Cost of Acquisition) or by law or required to be incurred under or in connection with the performance of the Issuer’s obligations under the Power Supply Contracts; (c) fees payable by the Issuer with respect to any Remarketing Agreement; (d) the fees and expenses of the Fiduciaries; (e) reasonable accounting, legal and other professional fees and expenses, and all other reasonable administrative and operating expenses of the Issuer, which are incurred by the Issuer with respect to the Bonds, this Indenture, or the Clean Energy Project, including but not limited to those relating to the administration of the Trust Estate and compliance by the Issuer with its continuing disclosure obligations, if any, with respect to the Bonds; and (f) the costs of any insurance premiums incurred by the Issuer, including, without limitation, directors and officers liability insurance allocable to the Clean Energy Project; provided that, for purposes of Section
5.05(ii), Operating Expenses shall not include any of the foregoing administrative expenses, fees or other costs described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (f) that are paid from funds on deposit in the Administrative Fee Fund. Commodity Swap Payments, litigation judgments and settlements and indemnification payments in connection with the payment of any litigation judgment or settlement, and Extraordinary Expenses are not Operating Expenses. Commodity Swap Payments, litigation judgments and settlements and indemnification payments in connection with the payment of any litigation judgment or settlement, and Extraordinary Expenses are not Operating Expenses.
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19 “Operating Fund” means the Operating Fund established in Section 5.02. “Opinion of Bond Counsel” means a written opinion of either Bond Counsel or Special Tax Counsel (or written opinions of both of them) addressed to the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee. “Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion signed by an attorney or firm of attorneys (who may be counsel to the Issuer) selected by the Issuer.
“Optional Purchase Date” means any date on which Bonds are to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.11.
“Outstanding” when used with reference to Bonds, means as of any date, Bonds theretofore or thereupon being authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:
(a) Bonds cancelled (or portions thereof deemed to have been cancelled) by the Trustee at or prior to such date;
(b) Bonds (or portions of Bonds) for the payment or redemption of which moneys, equal to the principal amount or Redemption Price thereof, as the case may be, with interest to the date of maturity or redemption date, shall be held in trust under this Indenture and set aside for such payment or redemption (whether at or prior to the maturity or redemption date), provided that if such Bonds (or portions of Bonds) are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption shall have been given or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for the giving of such notice as provided in Article IV; (c) Bonds in lieu of or in substitution for which other Bonds shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to Article III or Section 4.06 or Section 11.06; (d) Bonds paid or deemed to have been paid as provided in Section 12.01; and (e) Bonds (or portions thereof) deemed to have been purchased pursuant to the provisions of any Supplemental Indenture in lieu of which other Bonds have been authenticated and delivered as provided in such Supplemental Indenture. “Outstanding Sold Receivables” means, in respect of any Project Participant, Put Receivables that have been sold to the Energy Supplier pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions, together with any interest accrued thereon pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions, less any such Put Receivables and interest thereon that has been previously paid or repurchased from the Energy Supplier pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions. “Participants” means those broker dealers, banks and other financial institutions from time to time for which DTC holds Bonds as Securities Depository. “Paying Agent” means the Trustee, its successors and assigns, and any other bank or trust company organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America or any national banking association designated as paying agent for the Bonds, and its successor or successors hereafter appointed in the manner provided in this Indenture.
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20 “Payment Deficiency Fixed Baseline” means, for any Month and any Project Participant, the amount such Project Participant would have been required to pay for such Month under its Power Supply Contracts if the Contract Price for such Month had been determined using an Index Price (as defined under its Power Supply Contracts) for such Month equal to the Fixed Price (as defined under the Commodity Swaps) for such Month.
“Payment Deficiency Index Baseline” means, for any Month and any Project Participant, the amount required to be paid by such Project Participant for such Month under its Power Supply Contracts.
“Person” means any and all natural persons, firms, associations, corporations and public bodies.
“Pledged Funds” means (a) the Project Fund, (b) the Revenue Fund, (c) the Debt Service Fund, (d) the General Reserve Fund, (e) the Assignment Payment Fund and (f) the Commodity Swap Payment Fund, in each case including the Accounts in each of such Funds and in the case of the Commodity Swap Payment Fund, subject to the prior pledges thereof in favor of the Commodity Swap Counterparties.
“Power Supply Contracts” means (a) each of the contracts for the sale by the Issuer of Energy from or attributable to the Clean Energy Project to a Project Participant identified on Schedule I, as such contracts may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and this Indenture, and (b) any other contract for the sale by the Issuer of Energy from or attributable to the Clean Energy Project entered into by a Person that becomes a Project Participant in accordance with the assignment and novation requirements set forth in Section 7.10(iv), as such contract may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and this Indenture.
“Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement” means the Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement, dated as of [Closing Date], 2025, between the Issuer and Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority, as the same may be amended from time to time. “Prevailing Market Conditions” means, without limitation, the following factors: existing short term market rates for securities, the interest on which is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes or, as applicable, qualifies the issuer thereof to receive Subsidy Payments or similar benefit; indexes of such short term rates; the existing market supply and demand and the existing yield curves for short term and long term securities for obligations of credit quality comparable to the Bonds, the interest on which is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes; general economic conditions and financial conditions that may affect or be relevant to the Bonds; and such other facts, circumstances and conditions as the Remarketing Agent, in its sole discretion, shall determine to be relevant to the remarketing of the Bonds at the Purchase Price thereof.
“Principal Installment” means, as of any date of calculation, (a) the principal amount of Bonds due on a certain future date for which no Sinking Fund Installments have been established, or (b) the unsatisfied balance (determined as provided in Section 5.10(c)) of any Sinking Fund Item 2
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21 Installments due on a certain future date in a principal amount equal to said unsatisfied balance of such Sinking Fund Installments.
“Project Administration Fee” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement.
“Project Fund” means the Project Fund established in Section 5.02. “Project Participant” means (a) a Public Agency that is an Energy purchaser under a Power Supply Contract and identified as a “Project Participant” in Schedule I and (b) any other Person that enters into a Power Supply Contract with the Issuer in accordance with the assignment and novation requirements set forth in Section 7.10(d)(iv). “Public Agency” means a state, a governmental or political subdivision of a state and a corporate instrumentality or public corporation of a state or a subdivision of a state, including without limitation any of their departments or agencies, counties, county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, cities, public corporations, public districts, public commissions or joint powers authorities.
“Purchase Date” means an Optional Purchase Date or a Mandatory Purchase Date, as the case may be.
“Purchase Price” means (a) with respect to any Purchased Bond to be purchased on an Optional Purchase Date, an amount equal to the principal amount of such Bond Outstanding on such date plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, unless such Optional Purchase Date is an Interest Payment Date for such Bond, in which case interest on such Bond shall not be included in the Purchase Price of such Bond but shall be paid to the Owner of such Bond in accordance with the interest payment provisions of this Indenture, (b) except as provided in clause (c) below, with respect to any Purchased Bond to be purchased on a Mandatory Purchase Date, an amount equal to the principal amount of such Bond Outstanding on such date, and (c) in the case of a purchase of a Bond bearing interest at a Term Rate pursuant to Section 4.14 with respect to which the new Interest Rate Period commences prior to the day originally established as the last day of the preceding Term Rate Period, the optional redemption price for such Bond set forth in Section 4.03(b) or in an applicable Supplemental Indenture which would have been applicable to such Bond if the preceding Term Rate Period had continued to the day originally established as its last day. Accrued interest due on any Bonds to be purchased on a Mandatory Purchase Date shall be paid from amounts on deposit in the Debt Service Account of the Debt Service Fund on such date in accordance with Section 5.07.
“Purchased Bonds” means any Bonds required to be purchased on a Purchase Date. “Put Option Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a) of the Receivables Purchase Provisions.
“Put Receivable” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 of the Receivables Purchase Provisions.
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22 “Qualified Investments” means any of the following investments, if and to the extent that the same are rated (or whose financial obligations to the Issuer receive credit support from an entity rated) (i) at least the Minimum Rating or (ii) at such a rating that will allow the Bonds to be rated the same as the credit rating or financial strength rating assigned to the Funding Recipient (except for (c) below), and are at the time authorized for such purpose by law:
(a) Direct obligations of the United States government or any of its agencies; (b) Obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States government or any of its agencies;
(c) Certificates of deposit, including those placed by a third party pursuant to an agreement between the Trustee and the Issuer, and other evidences of deposit at state and federally chartered banks, savings and loan institutions or savings banks, including the Trustee or any of its affiliates (each having the highest short term rating by each Rating Agency then rating the Bonds) deposited and collateralized as required by law; (d) Repurchase agreements entered into with the United States or its agencies or with any bank, broker dealer or other such entity, including the Trustee and its affiliates, so long as the obligation of the obligated party is secured by a perfected pledge of obligations that meet the conditions set forth in the preamble to this definition of Qualified Investments;
(e) Guaranteed investment contracts, forward delivery agreements, interest rate exchange agreements or similar agreements providing for a specified rate of return over a specified time period; provided, however, that guaranteed investment contracts, forward delivery agreements or similar agreements shall meet the conditions set forth in the preamble to this definition of Qualified Investments;
(f) Direct general obligations of a state of the United States, or a political subdivision or instrumentality thereof, having general taxing powers; (g) Obligations of any state of the United States or a political subdivision or instrumentality thereof, secured solely by revenues received by or on behalf of the state or political subdivision or instrumentality thereof irrevocably pledged to the payment of principal of and interest on such obligations and that meet the conditions set forth in the preamble to this definition of Qualified Investments;
(h) Money market funds registered under the federal Investment Company Act of 1940, whose shares are registered under the federal Securities Act of 1933, and having a rating in the highest Rating Category by each Rating Agency at the time of investment, including money market funds of the Trustee and funds for which the Trustee or its affiliates (i) provide investment or other management services and (ii) serve as investment manager, administrator, shareholder, servicing agent and/or custodian or sub-custodian, notwithstanding that (A) the Trustee or its affiliate receives or collects fees from such funds for services rendered, and (B) services performed by the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture may at times duplicate those provided to such funds by the Trustee or its affiliate; or Item 2
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23 (i) Any other investments permitted by applicable law for the investment of the funds of the Issuer and that meet the conditions set forth in the preamble to this definition of Qualified Investments;
provided, that the Issuer shall monitor, or shall cause to be monitored, ratings and shall determine whether any investment made is or continues to be a Qualified Investment, and the Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever for monitoring ratings or determining whether any investment is or continues to be a Qualified Investment.
“Rating Agency” means Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, or any other rating agency so designated in a Supplemental Indenture that, at the time, rates the Bonds. “Rating Category” means one or more of the generic rating categories of a Rating Agency, without regard to any refinement or gradation of such rating category or categories by a numerical modifier, a plus or minus, or otherwise.
“Rating Confirmation” means evidence satisfactory to the Issuer, so designated in a Written Statement of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee, that upon the effectiveness of any proposed action, all Outstanding Bonds will continue to be assigned at least the same or equivalent ratings (including the same or equivalent numerical, plus or minus, or other modifiers within a Rating Category) by each Rating Agency then rating such Outstanding Bonds. “Rebate Payments” means those portions of moneys or securities held in any Fund or Account that are required to be paid to the United States Treasury Department under the requirements of Section 148(f) of the Internal Revenue Code. “Receivables Purchase Provisions” means (i) initially, the provisions set forth in Exhibit G to the Energy Purchase Agreement, and (ii) any successor provisions for the purchase and sale of receivables in respect of amounts due and unpaid under the Power Supply Contracts and provided in a Written Notice of the Issuer to the Trustee. “Redemption Account” means the Redemption Account in the Debt Service Fund established in Section 5.02.
“Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Bond, the amount payable upon redemption thereof pursuant to such Bond or this Indenture. “Reference Month” means, with respect to each CPI Index Rate Reset Date, the third calendar month preceding such CPI Index Rate Reset Date. “Refunding Bonds” means a Series of Bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to Section 2.01(c) for the sole purposes of refunding or defeasing (in accordance with Article XII) in whole a Series of Bonds then Outstanding, and paying the Cost of Acquisition with respect to such Refunding Bonds.
“Regular Record Date” means (i) with respect to any Interest Payment Date in respect of any Daily Interest Rate Period, Weekly Interest Rate Period, Index Rate Period, Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, the Business Day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date, and Item 2
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24 (ii) with respect to any Interest Payment Date in respect of any Term Rate Period, the 15th day of the Month (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the Month in which such Interest Payment Date falls.
“Remarketing Agent” means, with respect to any Series of Bonds, the entity appointed as the remarketing agent for such Series pursuant to the related Remarketing Agreement and, if applicable, the related Supplemental Indenture.
“Remarketing Agreement” means, with respect to any Series of Bonds, the remarketing agreement, if any, entered into between the Issuer and the Remarketing Agent for such Series of Bonds.
“Remarketing Proceeds Account” means the Account by that name within the Bond Purchase Fund.
“Remarketing Provisions” means the electricity remarketing provisions set forth in Exhibit C to the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Remediation Remarketing Purchase Price” has the meaning given to such term in the Remarketing Provisions.
“Re-Pricing Agreement” means the Re-Pricing Agreement dated as of the Initial Issue Date between the Issuer and the Energy Supplier, as the same may be amended in accordance with its terms.
“Reset Period” means Initial Reset Period or Reset Period, as the case may be, each as defined in the Re-Pricing Agreement.
“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, the Custodian or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, any managing director, president, vice president, senior associate, associate or other officer of the Trustee, the Custodian or the Calculation Agent, respectively, within its designated corporate trust office for delivery of notice specified in Section 12.11 (or any successor corporate trust office) customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at such office because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
“Revenue Fund” means the Revenue Fund established in Section 5.02. “Revenues” means:
(a) all revenues, income, rents, user fees or charges, and receipts derived or to be derived by the Issuer from or attributable or relating to the ownership and operation of the Clean Energy Project, including all revenues attributable or relating to the Clean Energy Project or to the payment of the costs thereof received or to be received by the Issuer under the Power Supply Contract and the Energy Purchase Agreement or otherwise payable to the Trustee for the account of the Issuer for the sale and/or transmission of Energy or Item 2
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25 otherwise with respect to the Clean Energy Project (excluding any payments received by the Issuer in respect of any Monthly Excess Quantities or Assigned Paygo Quantities, each as defined in the Energy Purchase Agreement);
(b) interest received or to be received on any moneys or securities (other than moneys or securities held in the Project Fund, moneys or securities held in the Redemption Account in the Debt Service Fund or that portion of moneys in the Operating Fund required for Rebate Payments) held pursuant to this Indenture and paid or required to be paid into the Revenue Fund;
(c) any Commodity Swap Receipts received by the Trustee on behalf of the Issuer;
(d) any Subsidy Payments received by the Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer, in accordance with Section 3.10 of this Indenture; and
(e) any Advance received by the Trustee on behalf of the Issuer. provided that, the term “Revenues” shall not include: (t) Ledger Event Payments, (u) any Termination Payment pursuant to the Energy Purchase Agreement; (v) any amounts received from the Energy Supplier that are required to be deposited into the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund pursuant to Section 5.11; (w) any amounts paid by the Project Participant under the Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement; (x) any Assignment Payment received from the Energy Supplier; (y) Interest Rate Swap Receipts; and (z) amounts paid by the Project Participant in respect of the Project Administration Fee.
“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., its successors and assigns, and, if such entity shall no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency, “S&P” shall be deemed to refer to any other nationally recognized securities rating agency designated by the Issuer in a Written Notice delivered to the Trustee. “Scheduled Debt Service Deposits” means the required monthly deposits to the Debt Service Account in the Debt Service Fund and the required cumulative deposits to the Debt Service Account in the Debt Service Fund in respect of the Debt Service coming due on the Bonds on each Bond Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.05(a)(iii) and as set forth on Schedule II hereto.
Schedule II shall be revised (a) by Written Notice of the Issuer delivered at the time of its designation of each subsequent Interest Rate Period, and (b) by each Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of Refunding Bonds.
“Securities Depository” means DTC, or its nominee, and its successors and assigns. “Series” means the Series 2025[_] Bonds and any other Bonds designated as a Series authorized to be issued hereunder pursuant to Section 2.01. “Series 2025[_] Bonds” means the Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate]) authorized to be issued under Section 2.01.
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26 “SIFMA Index” means the SIFMA Municipal Swap Index, which, for purposes of an Index Rate Reset Date for a Series of Bonds bearing interest at a SIFMA Index Rate, will be the level of such index which is issued weekly and which is compiled from the weekly interest rate resets of tax exempt variable rate issues included in a database maintained by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. which meet specific criteria established from time to time by SIFMA and issued on Wednesday of each week, or if any Wednesday is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, such date being the same day the SIFMA Swap Index is expected to be published or otherwise made available to the Calculation Agent. If the SIFMA Index is not available as of any Index Rate Reset Date, the interest rate for such Index Rate Reset Date will be determined using a comparable substitute or replacement index for such Index Rate Reset Date selected and designated by the Issuer in its commercially reasonable judgment in compliance with Section 2.09(b)(v) and Section 2.13.
“SIFMA Index Rate” means a per annum rate of interest equal to the sum of (a) the SIFMA Index then in effect, plus (b) the Applicable Spread.
“SIFMA Index Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, an Index Rate Period during which such Bonds bear interest at the SIFMA Index Rate. “Sinking Fund Installment” means, for the Series 2025[_] Bonds, the amounts so designated in Section 4.02, and with respect to any other Series of Bonds, each amount, if any, so designated in the applicable Supplemental Indenture.
“SOFR Accrual Period” means (a) the number of actual days from and including the Conversion Date to but not including the first SOFR Interest Calculation Date and (b) thereafter, the number of actual days from and including the preceding SOFR Interest Calculation Date to but not including the next succeeding SOFR Interest Calculation Date, regardless of the number of days in any Month.
“SOFR Effective Date” shall mean each Business Day. Each SOFR Effective Date is an Index Rate Reset Date for all purposes of the Indenture unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
“SOFR Effective Period” means the number of actual days from a SOFR Effective Date to but not including the next SOFR Effective Date.
“SOFR Index” means the “Secured Overnight Financing Rate” reported on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or reported by any successor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as administrator of such Secured Overnight Financing Rate, as of 3:00 p.m. on each SOFR Publish Date representing the SOFR Index as of the SOFR Lookback Date, which will be used to calculate interest for the SOFR Effective Period beginning on the SOFR Effective Date. If SOFR Index is not available as of any Index Rate Reset Date, the interest rate for such Index Rate Reset Date will be determined using a comparable substitute or replacement index for such Index Rate Reset Date designated by the Issuer in writing (with notice to, and which is available to, the Calculation Agent) in compliance with Section 2.09(b)(v). “SOFR Index Rate” means a daily variable interest rate equal to the sum of (a) the product of the SOFR Index and the Applicable Factor, plus (b) the Applicable Spread on each day of a Item 2
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27 SOFR Effective Period, but not less than the Minimum Rate and not greater than the Maximum Rate.
“SOFR Index Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, an Index Rate Period during which such Bonds bear interest at the SOFR Index Rate. “SOFR Interest Calculation Date” means the first Business Day of each Month, commencing on such date as specified in a Supplemental Indenture. “SOFR Lookback Date” means the third Business Day immediately preceding each SOFR Effective Date.
“SOFR Publish Date” means the second Business Day immediately preceding each SOFR Effective Date.
“Special Record Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.08. “Special Tax Counsel” means Ballard Spahr LLP or any other counsel of nationally recognized standing in matters pertaining to the tax exempt status of interest on obligations issued by states and their political subdivisions, duly admitted to the practice of law before the highest court of any state of the United States, and selected by the Issuer. Bond Counsel may serve as Special Tax Counsel.
“Specified Project Participant” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.1 of the Receivables Purchase Provisions.
“State” means the State of California.
“Subsidy Payments” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds issued under Section 54AA of the Internal Revenue Code, the amounts relating to such Series of Bonds which are payable by the federal government under Section 6431 of the Internal Revenue Code, which the Issuer has elected to receive under Section 54AA(g)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, and (b) with respect to a Series of Bonds issued under any other provision of the Internal Revenue Code that creates a substantially similar direct-pay subsidy program, the amounts relating to such Series of Bonds which are payable by the federal government under the applicable provision of the Internal Revenue Code which the Issuer has elected to receive under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Supplemental Indenture” means any indenture supplemental to or amendatory of this Indenture executed and delivered by the Issuer and the Trustee in accordance with Article X. “Swap Payment Deficiency” means, as of any date, (a) the aggregate amount of the next Commodity Swap Payment expected to become due pursuant to each Commodity Swap, minus (b) the amount on deposit in the Commodity Swap Payment Fund; provided, however, that if such difference is a negative number, then the Swap Payment Deficiency shall be zero. “Tax Agreement” means the Tax Certificate and Agreement of the Issuer with respect to the Bonds dated as of the Initial Issue Date.
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28 “Term Rate” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, a fixed interest rate for each maturity of such Bonds established in accordance with Section 2.07. “Term Rate Conversion Date” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each date on which such Bonds begin to bear interest at a Term Rate pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.07, including each date on which a new Term Rate Period is established for such Bonds and the Final Fixed Rate Conversion Date with respect to such Bonds.
“Term Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each period during which a Term Rate is in effect for such Bonds.
“Term Rate Tender Date” means (a) with respect to the initial Term Rate Period for the Series 2025[_] Bonds maturing on the Final Maturity Date, the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date, and (b) with respect to any other Term Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the date so specified in the related Supplemental Indenture or notice of Conversion to or continuation of such Term Rate Period provided by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.07(b), as applicable, which date shall be a Mandatory Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.13 and shall not be later than the Final Maturity Date for such Series of Bonds. The Term Rate Tender Date shall always be a Business Day, unless such date is the Final Maturity Date. If a date (other than the Final Maturity Date) that is not a Business Day is specified as a Term Rate Tender Date, then the Term Rate Tender Date shall be the Business Day immediately following such specified date. “Termination Payment” has the meaning given to such term in the Energy Purchase Agreement.
“Trust Estate” means (a) the proceeds of the sale of the Bonds, (b) all right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under the Power Supply Contract, except for the right to receive the Project Administration Fee, (c) the Revenues, (d) any Termination Payment or the right to receive such Termination Payment (e) all right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under the Receivables Purchase Provisions, including payments received from the Energy Supplier (or the Master Custodian on its behalf) pursuant thereto, (f) all right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under each Interest Rate Swap and the Interest Rate Swap Receipts, (g) all right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under any Debt Service Fund Agreement and Debt Service Fund Agreement Guaranty and (h) the Pledged Funds (which does not include the Administrative Fee Fund, the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund and the Bond Purchase Fund, and excluding Rebate Payments held in any Fund or Account), including the investment income, if any, thereof subject only to the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
“Trustee” means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., and its successor or successors and any other corporation or national banking association which may at any time be substituted in its place pursuant to this Indenture.
“Undelivered Bond” means any Bond which constitutes an Undelivered Bond under the provisions of Section 4.16.
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29 “Underwriter” means (a) with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, Morgan Stanley & Co.
LLC, and (b) with respect to any other Series of Bonds, the municipal securities broker dealer engaged by the Issuer to underwrite such Series of Bonds. “Variable Rate Bonds” means Bonds bearing interest at a Daily Interest Rate, a Weekly Interest Rate, CP Interest Term Rates or an Index Rate. “Weekly Interest Rate” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, a variable interest rate established for such Bonds in accordance with Section 2.06. “Weekly Interest Rate Period” means, with respect to a Series of Bonds, each period during which a Weekly Interest Rate is in effect for such Series of Bonds. “Written Certificate,” “Written Direction,” “Written Instrument,” “Written Notice,” “Written Request” and “Written Statement” of the Issuer means in each case an instrument in writing signed on behalf of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer thereof. Any such instrument and any supporting opinions or certificates may, but need not, be combined in a single instrument with any other instrument, opinion or certificate, and the two or more so combined shall be read and construed so as to form a single instrument. Any such instrument may be based, insofar as it relates to legal, accounting or engineering matters, upon the opinion or certificate of counsel, consultants, accountants or engineers, unless the Authorized Officer signing such Written Certificate, Direction, Instrument, Notice, Request or Statement knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion or certificate with respect to the matters upon which such Written Certificate, Direction, Instrument, Notice, Request or Statement may be based, as aforesaid, is erroneous. The same Authorized Officer, or the same counsel, consultant, accountant or engineer, as the case may be, need not certify to all of the matters required to be certified under any provision of this Indenture, but different Authorized Officers, counsel, consultants, accountants or engineers may certify to different facts, respectively. Every Written Certificate, Direction, Instrument Notice, Request or Statement of the Issuer, and every certificate or opinion of counsel, consultants, accountants or engineers provided for herein shall include:
(a) a statement that the person making such certificate, direction, instrument, notice, request, statement or opinion has read the pertinent provisions of this Indenture to which such certificate, direction, notice, request, statement or opinion relates; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the certificate, direction, instrument, notice, request, statement or opinion is based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion with respect to the subject matter referred to in the instrument to which his or her signature is affixed; and
(d) with respect to any statement relating to compliance with any provision hereof, a statement whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such provision has been complied with.
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30 Section 1.02. Captions. The captions or headings in this Indenture are for convenience only and in no way define, limit or describe the scope and intent of any provisions of this Indenture.
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. Except where the context otherwise requires, words of any gender shall include correlative words of the other genders; words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa; and words importing persons shall include firms, associations, trusts, corporations or governments or agencies or political subdivisions thereof. The term “include” and its derivations are not limiting.
References herein to contracts and agreements include all amendments or supplements thereto made in accordance with the terms thereof, and any reference to a party to any such agreement includes all successors and assigns of such party thereunder permitted by the terms hereof and thereof. References herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules are references to the Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules of and to this Indenture.
Section 1.04. Governing Law. This Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State.
Section 1.05. Consents. Whenever the consent, notice or direction of the Bondholders, the Energy Supplier, the Commodity Swap Counterparties, the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty or the Issuer is required under the terms of this Indenture, such consent, notice or direction, as applicable, shall be evidenced by a written instrument providing for such consent, delivered to the Trustee.
ARTICLE II
AUTHORIZATION AND ISSUANCE OF BONDS
Section 2.01. Authorization of Bonds and Refunding Bonds; Application of Proceeds. (a) For the purpose of financing the Cost of Acquisition of the Clean Energy Project, the $[__] Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate]), which shall bear interest during the Initial Interest Rate Period at a Term Rate, and which shall be entitled to the benefit, protection and security of this Indenture are hereby authorized to be issued. (b) The proceeds of the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be deposited with the Trustee and disbursed, transferred and applied as provided in a Written Request of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee upon the issuance of the Series 2025[_] Bonds.
(c) In addition to the Series 2025[_] Bonds, there are hereby authorized to be issued by Supplemental Indenture one or more Series of Refunding Bonds for the purpose of refunding any Series of Bonds then Outstanding hereunder, subject to the following conditions:
(i) the Supplemental Indenture providing for issuance of a Series of Refunding Bonds shall set forth (A) the Bonds to be refunded, (B) the Series designation and aggregate principal amount of the Refunding Bonds, (C) the Maturity Dates (which shall be no later than the Final Maturity Date) and any Sinking Fund Installments for the Refunding Bonds, (D) the Scheduled Debt Service Deposits for such Bonds, (E) the initial Interest Rate Period for such Refunding Bonds, and if such Interest Rate Period is to be an Item 2
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31 Index Rate Period, the applicable Index or CPI, and the Applicable Spread, and (F) such other terms and provisions concerning the Refunding Bonds as are not inconsistent with this Indenture;
(ii) a Series of Refunding Bonds issued in a Term Rate Period may be sold at a premium;
(iii) the proceeds of a Series of Refunding Bonds (including any sale premium) shall be used exclusively to pay the Cost of Acquisition relating to the Refunding Bonds; (iv) if such Bonds are Variable Rate Bonds and if such Bonds are to bear interest at a Daily Interest Rate, a Weekly Interest Rate or CP Interest Term Rates, the Issuer shall have appointed a Remarketing Agent for such Bonds and shall have entered into an Interest Rate Swap with respect to such Series of Bonds;
(v) the delivery to the Trustee of an Accountant’s Certificate verifying ongoing cash flow sufficiency and Termination Payment sufficiency, provided that the Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to review the contents thereof and shall receive such Accountant’s Certificate solely as a repository on behalf of Bondholders; (vi) the delivery to the Trustee of the requests, opinions and documents required by Section 2.03(c); and
(vii) the receipt by the Trustee of a Rating Confirmation with respect to any Bonds Outstanding prior to the issuance of such Refunding Bonds that will remain Outstanding after the issuance thereof.
(d) No bonds, other than the Bonds and any Refunding Bonds, may be issued pursuant to this Indenture.
Section 2.02. Terms of Series 2025[_] Bonds; Payment. (a) The Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be dated as of the date of the initial authentication and delivery thereof, shall bear interest from such date, payable on each Interest Payment Date, and shall be subject to redemption as provided in Article IV. The principal and Redemption Price of and interest on the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be payable by the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office and such banking institution is hereby appointed Paying Agent and Bond Registrar for the Bonds; provided that interest on the Bonds may be paid, at the option of the Issuer, by check payable to the order of the Person entitled thereto, and mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the address of such Person as shall appear on the books of the Bond Registrar as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date, whether or not such Regular Record Date is a Business Day, which books the Bond Registrar shall keep for such purposes at its designated corporate trust office. Upon the written request of any Owner of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more in aggregate principal amount of Bonds received by the Trustee prior to the applicable Regular Record Date (which request shall remain in effect until rescinded in writing by such Owner), interest shall be paid on each Interest Payment Date by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account maintained in any bank or trust company in the United States of America that is a member of the Federal Reserve System designated in writing by such Owner.
The principal and Redemption Price of and interest on all Bonds shall also be payable at any other Item 2
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32 place which may be provided for such payment by the appointment of any other Paying Agent or Paying Agents as permitted by this Indenture. The Issuer shall provide Written Notice to the Trustee of the appointment of any additional Paying Agent. (b) The Series 2025[_] Bonds shall mature on the Maturity Dates in the principal amounts, subject to Sinking Fund Installments as set forth in Section 4.02. The Initial Interest Rate Period for the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be a Term Rate Period, and the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall bear interest during such Interest Rate Period at the rates set forth below:
SERIES 2025[_] BONDS
MATURITY
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
INTEREST
RATE
[____ 1, 20__] $[__] [__]%
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
[____ 1, 20__] [__] [__]
(c) If a Ledger Event occurs and Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. makes the Ledger Event Payments (which the Trustee shall deposit directly into the Debt Service Account), the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall bear interest at the Increased Interest Rate during an Increased Interest Rate Period that begins on the day on which such Ledger Event occurs. If the Increased Interest Rate Period ends due to the failure of Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. to pay the Ledger Event Payments, then the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall bear interest at the rate(s) shown in the table above from and including the Interest Payment Date immediately succeeding the last date on which Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. paid the Ledger Event Payments until the earlier of their stated maturity, the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date or any prior redemption date with respect to the Series 2025[_] Bonds. The Issuer shall give prompt Written Notice to the Trustee of (i) the occurrence and date of a Ledger Event (which shall be the first day of the related Increased Interest Rate Period), and (ii) the occurrence and date of any Acceleration Event (which shall be the last day of the related Increased Interest Rate Period). All references herein and in the Series 2025[_] Bonds to “interest” on the Series 2025[_] Bonds during the Initial Interest Rate Period, including all provisions relating to the accrual, computation and payment of interest, shall include interest at the Increased Interest Rate during any Increased Interest Rate Period. (d) Interest on the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be payable to the date on which such Bonds shall have been paid in full. Interest on the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date for the period commencing on the immediately preceding Interest Accrual Date for such period and ending on the day immediately preceding such Item 2
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33 Interest Payment Date. The first Interest Payment Date for the Series 2025[_] Bonds is [__] 1, 20[__].
(e) The initial interest rates for the Bonds of each Series and the determination for such Bonds of the Daily Interest Rate, the Weekly Interest Rate, the Index Rate or the Term Rate and each CP Interest Term and CP Interest Term Rate by the applicable Calculation Agent or Remarketing Agent for such Bonds, as the case may be, and shall be conclusive and binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee, the Remarketing Agent and the Owners of the Bonds. (f) In connection with any Term Rate Conversion Date of a Series of Bonds, the Sinking Fund Installments, if any, established for such Series pursuant to the applicable Supplemental Indenture may be re-designated as Maturity Dates and Sinking Fund Installments for such Bonds on the Term Rate Conversion Date for such Bonds as provided for in the applicable Supplemental Indenture.
Section 2.03. Conditions for Issuance of Bonds. The Bonds of each Series shall be executed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee and thereupon shall be authenticated by the Trustee and delivered upon the Written Direction of the Issuer, but only upon the receipt by the Trustee of:
(a) A copy, certified by an Authorized Officer, of a resolution and/or evidence of any other official actions taken by the Issuer that authorize the execution and delivery of the Bonds of such Series, together with a Written Request as to the authentication and delivery of the Bonds of such Series, signed by an Authorized Officer;
(b) An Opinion or Opinions of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Issuer has the right and power to authorize and enter into this Indenture, the Power Supply Contracts, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap, and (ii) the Power Supply Contracts, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap have been duly and lawfully authorized, executed and delivered by the Issuer and (assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by, and validity and binding effect upon, the other parties thereto) are valid and binding obligations of the Issuer, and no other authorization for the Power Supply Contracts, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Commodity Swaps or any Interest Rate Swap is required; provided, that such Opinion(s) of Counsel may take customary exceptions, including as to the effect of, or for restrictions or limitations imposed by or resulting from, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, debt adjustment, moratorium, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, the application of equitable principles, the exercise of judicial discretion, limitations on legal remedies against public entities in the State, and the valid exercise of the sovereign police powers of the State and of the constitutional power of the United States of America and may state that no opinion is being rendered as to the availability of any particular remedy; (c) An Opinion of Bond Counsel to the effect that (i) the Bonds of such Series constitute the valid and binding limited obligations of the Issuer; (ii) this Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by, and constitutes the valid and binding obligation of, the Issuer; and (iii) this Indenture creates a valid pledge to secure the payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds, of the Trust Estate, subject to the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application Item 2
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34 thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture; provided, that such Opinion of Bond Counsel may take customary exceptions, including as to the effect of, or for restrictions or limitations imposed by or resulting from, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, debt adjustment, moratorium reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance, or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, the application of equitable principles, the exercise of judicial discretion, limitations on legal remedies against public entities in the State, and the valid exercise of the sovereign police powers of the State, and may state that no opinion is being rendered as to the availability of any particular remedy under the financing documents; (d) An opinion of Special Tax Counsel to the effect that, if applicable, interest on the Bonds of such Series is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes under Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code and is exempt from State of California personal income taxes (it being agreed that if Special Tax Counsel also serves as Bond Counsel, the opinion described in this clause (d) may be consolidated with the Opinion of Bond Counsel described in the preceding clause (c));
(e) Executed or certified copy of each Power Supply Contract with each of the Project Participants specified on Schedule I;
(f) An opinion of counsel to each of the initial Project Participants to the effect that the applicable Power Supply Contract between such Project Participant and the Issuer has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Project Participant, is the valid and binding obligation of such Project Participant and is enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary assumptions and exceptions with respect to enforceability and such additional exceptions as may be agreed to by the Issuer and the Underwriter;
(g) A rating on the Bonds from at least one Rating Agency.
Section 2.04. Initial Interest Rate Period; Subsequent Interest Rate Periods. (a) The Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be initially issued in the Interest Rate Period set forth in Section 2.02(b). Upon the purchase of the Series 2025[_] Bonds on a Mandatory Purchase Date, the Interest Rate Period for each Series of the Series 2025[_] Bonds may be converted to a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period, a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period, a Term Rate Period or a combination thereof, as provided in this Article II. In the event that two or more Interest Rate Periods are so established, the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall, by Supplemental Indenture, be divided into separate Series or sub-Series corresponding to such Interest Rate Periods.
(b) In the manner hereinafter provided, the term of each Series of Bonds will be divided into consecutive Interest Rate Periods during each of which such Bonds shall bear interest at the Daily Interest Rate, the Weekly Interest Rate, CP Interest Term Rates, Term Rates or an Index Rate; provided, however, that the Interest Rate Period shall be the same for all Bonds of a Series, and, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Bond shall bear interest in excess of the Maximum Rate. The initial Interest Rate Period for any Series of Bonds (other than the Initial Interest Rate Period for the Series 2025[_] Bonds) shall be established pursuant to the related Supplemental Indenture.
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35 Section 2.05. Daily Interest Rate Period.
(a) Determination of Daily Interest Rates. During each Daily Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the Bonds of such Series shall bear interest at the Daily Interest Rate, which shall be determined by the Remarketing Agent on or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each Business Day for such Business Day. The Remarketing Agent will advise the Trustee by Electronic Means of the final Daily Interest Rate by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day such rate is determined. The Daily Interest Rate shall be the rate of interest per annum determined by the Remarketing Agent to be the minimum interest rate which, if borne by the Bonds of the applicable Series, would enable the Remarketing Agent to sell the Bonds of such Series on that Business Day at a price (without regard to accrued interest) equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof. With respect to any day that is not a Business Day, the Daily Interest Rate for that day shall be the same Daily Interest Rate established for the immediately preceding Business Day. In the event the Remarketing Agent fails to establish a Daily Interest Rate for any Business Day, then the Daily Interest Rate for that Business Day shall be the Daily Interest Rate for the immediately preceding Business Day if the Daily Interest Rate for the immediately preceding Business Day was established by the Remarketing Agent. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(d), in the event that the Daily Interest Rate for the immediately preceding Business Day was not determined by the Remarketing Agent, or in the event that the Daily Interest Rate determined by the Remarketing Agent shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, then the Daily Interest Rate shall be deemed to be equal to the SIFMA Index on the Business Day such Daily Interest Rate would otherwise be determined as provided herein for such Daily Interest Rate Period.
(b) Conversion to Daily Interest Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10, at any time the Issuer, in a Written Direction of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), may elect that a Series of Bonds shall bear interest at a Daily Interest Rate. Such direction of the Issuer shall specify the proposed effective date of such Conversion to a Daily Interest Rate Period, which shall be a Business Day not earlier than the 30th day following the second Business Day after receipt by the Trustee of the Written Direction of the Issuer, and either (A) in the case of a Conversion from a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Term Rate Period, the day immediately following the last day of such Interest Rate Period, or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture. In addition, such direction shall be accompanied by a form of notice required by Section 2.05(c) and the form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the effective date of the Conversion to the Daily Interest Rate Period. Upon the Conversion of any Series of Bonds to the Daily Interest Rate Period and until the day immediately preceding the effective date of the next succeeding Interest Rate Period under the terms of this Indenture, the interest rate borne by such Series of Bonds shall be a Daily Interest Rate as provided in Section 2.05(a).
(c) Notice of Conversion to Daily Interest Rate Period. Following timely receipt of a Written Direction of the Issuer directing the Conversion of a Series of Bonds to the Daily Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.05(b), the Trustee shall give notice by first class mail of the Conversion of such Bonds to bear interest in a Daily Interest Rate Period to the Owners of such Bonds not less than 30 days prior to the proposed effective date of such Daily Interest Rate Period.
Such notice shall be in the form provided to the Trustee pursuant to 2.05(b) to state: (i) that the Item 2
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36 Interest Rate Period for such Bonds will be converted to a Daily Interest Rate Period unless (A) the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Daily Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b) or (B) Bond Counsel shall fail to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as to such Conversion on the applicable Conversion Date; (ii) the proposed Conversion Date to the Daily Interest Rate Period; (iii) that the Bonds of such Series are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the proposed Conversion Date unless the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Daily Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b); and (iv) the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds.
Section 2.06. Weekly Interest Rate Period.
(a) Determination of Weekly Interest Rates. The Weekly Interest Rate for the initial Weekly Interest Rate Period following the issuance of a Series of Bonds bearing interest in a Weekly Interest Rate Period or Conversion of a Series of Bonds to a Weekly Interest Rate Period shall be determined on or prior to the first day of such Weekly Interest Rate Period and shall apply to the period commencing on the first day of such Weekly Interest Rate Period and ending on the succeeding Wednesday (whether or not a Business Day). Thereafter, during each Weekly Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the Bonds of such Series shall bear interest at the Weekly Interest Rate, which shall be determined by the Remarketing Agent by no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Wednesday of each week during such Weekly Interest Rate Period, or if such day shall not be a Business Day, then on the next succeeding Business Day. Each Weekly Interest Rate so determined shall apply to the period commencing on Thursday (whether or not a Business Day) and ending on the next succeeding Wednesday (whether or not a Business Day), unless such Weekly Interest Rate Period shall end on a day other than Wednesday, in which event the last Weekly Interest Rate for such Weekly Interest Rate Period shall apply to the period commencing on Thursday (whether or not a Business Day) and ending on the last day of such Weekly Interest Rate Period. The Weekly Interest Rate shall be the rate of interest per annum determined by the Remarketing Agent to be the minimum interest rate which, if borne by the Bonds of the applicable Series, would enable the Remarketing Agent to sell the Bonds of such Series on the effective date of such rate at a price (without regard to accrued interest) equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof. In the event that the Remarketing Agent fails to establish a Weekly Interest Rate for any week, then the Weekly Interest Rate for such week shall be the same as the Weekly Interest Rate for the immediately preceding week if the Weekly Interest Rate for such preceding week was determined by the Remarketing Agent. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(d), in the event that the Weekly Interest Rate for the immediately preceding week was not determined by the Remarketing Agent, or in the event that the Weekly Interest Rate determined by the Remarketing Agent shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, then the interest rate for such week shall be equal to the SIFMA Index on the day such Weekly Interest Rate would otherwise be determined as provided herein for such Weekly Interest Rate Period.
(b) Conversion to Weekly Interest Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10, at any time, the Issuer, in a Written Direction of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), may elect that a Series of Bonds shall bear interest at a Weekly Interest Rate. Such direction of the Issuer shall specify the proposed effective date of such Conversion to a Weekly Interest Rate Period, which shall be a Business Day not earlier than the later of (a) the 30th day Item 2
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37 following the second Business Day after receipt by the Trustee of such Written Direction of the Issuer, and either (A) in the case of a Conversion from a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Term Rate Period, the day immediately following the last day of such Interest Rate Period, or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture. In addition, such direction shall be accompanied by a form of notice required by Section 2.06(c) and the form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the effective date of the Conversion to the Weekly Interest Rate Period. Upon Conversion of any Series of Bonds to the Weekly Interest Rate Period and until the day immediately preceding the effective date of the next succeeding Interest Rate Period under the terms of this Indenture, the interest rate borne by such Series of Bonds shall be a Weekly Interest Rate as provided in Section 2.06(a). (c) Notice of Conversion to Weekly Interest Rate. Following timely receipt of a Written Direction of the Issuer directing the Conversion of a Series of Bonds to the Weekly Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.06(b), the Trustee shall give notice by first class mail of the Conversion of such Bonds to bear interest in a Weekly Interest Rate Period to the Owners of such Bonds not less than 30 days prior to the proposed effective date of such Weekly Interest Rate Period. Such notice shall be in the form provided to the Trustee pursuant to 2.06(b) to state: (i) that the Interest Rate Period on such Bonds will be converted to a Weekly Interest Rate unless (A) the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Daily Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b) or (B) Bond Counsel shall fail to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as to such Conversion on the applicable Conversion Date; (ii) the proposed Conversion Date to the Weekly Interest Rate Period; and (iii) that the Bonds of such Series are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the proposed Conversion Date unless the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Weekly Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b); and (iv) the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds.
Section 2.07. Term Rate Period.
(a) Determination of Term Rates. For each Term Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, (i) the Issuer may by Written Notice to the Trustee delivered in connection with a Term Rate Conversion Date establish one or more Maturity Dates for the Bonds of such Series and Sinking Fund Installments for any maturities of the Bonds of such Series, and (ii) each maturity of the Bonds of such Series shall bear interest at a Term Rate; provided that the Term Rate, Maturity Dates and Sinking Fund Installments for each maturity of Bonds of any Series upon initial issuance of such Bonds, if any, shall be specified in this Indenture or a Supplemental Indenture providing for the issuance of such Series of Bonds. The Term Rate for each maturity of Bonds of a Series bearing interest in the Term Rate Period shall be determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, on a Business Day no later than the Issue Date or the Term Rate Conversion Date for such Series of Bonds, as applicable. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.07(d), each Term Rate shall be the rate of interest per annum determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, to be the minimum interest rate which, if borne by the Bonds of the applicable Series and maturity, would enable the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, to sell such Bonds and maturity on such date at a price (without regard to accrued interest) equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof. If, for any reason, with respect to any Series of Bonds being converted to a Term Rate Period, the Term Rate Item 2
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38 for such Term Rate Period is not determined by the Remarketing Agent on or prior to the first day of such Term Rate Period, then the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of the applicable Series shall be a Weekly Interest Rate Period and such Weekly Interest Rate Period shall continue until such time as the Interest Rate Period for such Series of Bonds shall have been converted to a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, a Term Rate Period or an Index Rate Period as provided herein.
(b) Conversion to or Continuation of Term Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10, at any time, the Issuer, in a Written Direction of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), may elect that a Series of Bonds shall bear interest at Term Rates. Such direction of the Issuer shall specify (i) the proposed effective date of the Term Rate Period, which date shall be a Business Day not earlier than the 30th day following receipt by the Trustee of such Written Direction of the Issuer, and either (A) in the case of a Conversion from a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Term Rate Period, the day immediately following the last day of such Interest Rate Period, or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture; (ii) the last day of such Term Rate Period, which day shall be either the day immediately prior to the Final Maturity Date for the applicable Series of Bonds, or a day which both immediately precedes a Business Day and is at least one hundred eighty one (181) days after the effective date of the Term Rate Period; and (iii) with respect to any such Term Rate Period, may specify redemption prices and periods different than those set forth in this Indenture or the applicable Supplemental Indenture providing for the issuance of such Series of Bonds, subject to the Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as provided in Section 2.07(b)(iii). In addition, such direction shall be accompanied by the form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the Term Rate Conversion Date and by a form of the notice to be mailed by the Trustee as provided in Section 2.07(c). Upon Conversion of any Series of Bonds to the Term Rate Period and until the day immediately preceding the effective date of the next succeeding Interest Rate Period under the terms of this Indenture, the interest rate or rates borne by such Series of Bonds shall be Term Rates as provided in Section 2.07(a). The day following the last day of any Term Rate Period for a Series of Bonds shall be a Term Rate Tender Date for such Series of Bonds.
After the Final Fixed Rate Conversion Date for a Series of Bonds, the Bonds of such Series shall no longer be subject to or have the benefit of the provisions of Section 4.11 through Section 4.22. (c) Notice of Conversion to or Continuation of Term Rate. Following timely receipt of a Written Direction of the Issuer directing the Conversion of a Series of Bonds to the Term Rate Period as provided in Section 2.07(b), the Trustee shall give notice by first-class mail of the Conversion of such Bonds to bear interest in a (or the establishment of another) Term Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to the Owners of the Bonds of such Series not less than thirty (30) days prior to the proposed effective date of such Term Rate Period. Such notice shall be in the form provided to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.07(b) to state: (i) that the Interest Rate Period for such Bonds shall be converted to, or continue to be, a Term Rate Period unless (A) the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Term Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b) or (B) Bond Counsel shall fail to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as to such Conversion on the Term Rate Conversion Date; (ii) that such Bonds are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the Term Rate Conversion Date and setting forth the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds; (iii) that the Bonds of such Series are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the proposed Conversion Date Item 2
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39 unless the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Term Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b); and (iv) the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds.
(d) Sale at Premium or Discount. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.07(a), the Term Rate for each maturity of any Series of Bonds as initially issued, or the Term Rate for each maturity of any other Series of Bonds upon Conversion to a Term Rate Period, shall be the rate of interest per annum determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, to be the interest rate which, if borne by the Bonds of such Series and maturity, would enable the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, to sell the Bonds of such Series and maturity at a price (without regard to accrued interest) which will result in the lowest net interest cost for the Bonds of such Series and maturity, after taking into account any premium or discount at which the Bonds of such Series and maturity are sold by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, provided that:
(i) The Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, certifies in writing to the Trustee and the Issuer that the sale of the Bonds of such Series at the interest rate and premium or discount specified by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, is expected to result in the lowest net interest cost for such Bonds; (ii) The Issuer consents in writing to the sale of the Bonds of such Series at such premium or discount;
(iii) In the case of the Bonds of such Series to be sold at a premium, the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, shall transfer the amount of such premium to the Trustee for deposit into such Funds and Accounts as shall be specified in a Written Direction of the Issuer;
(iv) On or before the date of determination of the Term Rates for the Bonds of such Series, the Issuer delivers to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent a form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the Term Rate Conversion Date; and
(v) On or before the Conversion Date, a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel shall have been delivered to the Trustee.
Section 2.08. Commercial Paper Interest Rate Periods.
(a) Determination of CP Interest Terms and CP Interest Term Rates. During each Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, each Bond of such Series shall bear interest during each CP Interest Term for such Bond at the CP Interest Term Rate for such Bond.
The CP Interest Term and the CP Interest Term Rate for each Bond need not be the same for any two Bonds of such Series, even if determined on the same date. Each of such CP Interest Terms and CP Interest Term Rates for each Bond shall be determined by the Remarketing Agent no later than the first day of each CP Interest Term. Each CP Interest Term shall be for a period of days within the range or ranges announced as possible CP Interest Terms no later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the first day of each CP Interest Term by the Remarketing Agent. Each CP Interest Term for each Bond of the applicable Series shall be a period of not more than two hundred Item 2
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40 seventy (270) days, determined by the Remarketing Agent to be the period which, together with all other CP Interest Terms for all Bonds of the applicable Series then Outstanding, will result in the lowest overall interest expense on such Bonds over the next succeeding two hundred seventy (270) days. Each CP Interest Term shall end on either a day which immediately precedes a Business Day or on the day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date for the applicable Series of Bonds. If, for any reason, a CP Interest Term for any Bond cannot be so determined by the Remarketing Agent, or if the determination of such CP Interest Term is held by a court of law to be invalid or unenforceable, then such CP Interest Term shall be thirty (30) days, but if the last day so determined shall not be a day immediately preceding a Business Day, such CP Interest Term shall end on the first day immediately preceding the Business Day next succeeding such last day, or if such last day would be after the day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date for the applicable Series of Bonds, shall end on the day immediately preceding such Final Maturity Date. In determining the number of days in each CP Interest Term, the Remarketing Agent shall take into account the following factors: (i) existing short-term, tax-exempt market rates and indices of such short-term rates; (ii) the existing market supply and demand for short-term tax-exempt securities; (iii) existing yield curves for short-term and long-term tax-exempt securities for obligations of credit quality comparable to the Bonds of the applicable Series; (iv) general economic conditions; (v) industry economic and financial conditions that may affect or be relevant to the Bonds of the applicable Series; (vi) the CP Interest Terms of other Bonds of the applicable Series; and (vii) such other facts, circumstances and conditions pertaining to financial markets as the Remarketing Agent, in its sole discretion, shall determine to be relevant.
The CP Interest Term Rate for each CP Interest Term for each Bond in a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period shall be the rate of interest per annum determined by the Remarketing Agent to be the minimum interest rate which, if borne by such Bond, would enable the Remarketing Agent to sell such Bond on the effective date of such rate at a price equal to the principal amount thereof. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(d), if, for any reason, a CP Interest Term Rate for any Bond in a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period is not so established by the Remarketing Agent for any CP Interest Term, or if such CP Interest Term Rate is determined by a court of law to be invalid or unenforceable, then the CP Interest Term Rate for such CP Interest Term shall be a rate per annum equal to the SIFMA Index on the first day of such CP Interest Term. (b) Conversion to Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10, at any time, the Issuer, in a Written Direction of the Issuer to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), may elect that a Series of Bonds shall bear interest at CP Interest Term Rates. Such Written Direction of the Issuer shall specify (i) the proposed effective date of the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, which shall be a Business Day not earlier than the thirtieth (30th) day following the second Business Day after receipt by the Trustee of such direction, and either (A) in the case of a Conversion from a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Term Rate Period, the day immediately following the last day of such Interest Rate Period, or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture. In addition, the Written Direction of the Issuer shall be accompanied by the form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the effective date of the Conversion to the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period and a form of the notice to be mailed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.08(c). Upon Conversion of any Series of Bonds to the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period and until the day immediately preceding the effective date of the next succeeding Interest Rate Period under the Item 2
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41 terms of this Indenture, each Bond of such Series shall bear interest at a CP Interest Term Rate applicable to the CP Interest Term then in effect for such Bond, which may differ from the CP Interest Term Rate and CP Interest Term applicable to other Bonds of such Series. (c) Notice of Conversion to CP Interest Term Rates. Following timely receipt of a Written Direction of the Issuer directing the Conversion of a Series of Bonds to the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.08(b), the Trustee shall give notice by first class mail of the Conversion of such Bonds to bear interest in a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period to the Owners of the Bonds of the applicable Series not less than thirty (30) days prior to the proposed effective date of such Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period. Such notice shall be in the form provided to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.08(b) to state: (i) that such Bonds shall bear interest at CP Interest Term Rates unless (A) the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b) or (B) Bond Counsel shall fail to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as to such Conversion on the applicable Conversion Date; (ii) the proposed Conversion Date to the Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period; and (iii) that Bonds of such Bonds are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on such proposed Conversion Date unless the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b); and (iv) the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds.
(d) Conversion From Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10(b), at any time during a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the Issuer may elect, pursuant to Section 2.05(b), Section 2.06(b), Section 2.07(b) or Section 2.09(c), that such Bonds no longer shall bear interest at CP Interest Term Rates and shall instead bear interest at a Daily Interest Rate, a Weekly Interest Rate, a Term Rate or an Index Rate, as specified in such election. In connection with any such election, and notwithstanding any provision contained in this Section 2.08 to the contrary, each CP Interest Term established by the Remarketing Agent for the Bonds shall end on the same date in order to facilitate the Conversion of such Bonds. The date on which all CP Interest Terms determined for the Bonds end shall be the last day of the then current Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period and the day next succeeding such date shall be the effective date of the Daily Interest Rate Period, Weekly Interest Rate Period, Term Rate Period or Index Rate Period elected by the Issuer for such Bonds.
Section 2.09. Index Rate Periods.
(a) Determination of Applicable Spread and Applicable Factor. In connection with the issuance of a Series of Bonds bearing interest in an Index Rate Period, the Applicable Spread and any Applicable Factor applicable to such Series of Bonds for the duration of the initial Index Rate Period for such Series of Bonds shall be specified in this Indenture or in the Supplemental Indenture providing for the issuance of such Series of Bonds. In connection with the Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to an Index Rate Period, the Remarketing Agent shall determine the Applicable Spread and any Applicable Factor applicable to such Bonds for the duration of the applicable Index Rate Period, and shall specify such Applicable Spread and any Applicable Factor selected by the Issuer in the Index Rate Determination Certificate for the applicable Index Rate Period. The Applicable Spread and any Applicable Factor shall be such amount as shall result in the minimum Index Rate (as a rate of interest per annum) which, if borne Item 2
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42 by the Bonds of the applicable Series as of the first day of the applicable Index Rate Period, under Prevailing Market Conditions, would enable the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, to sell the Bonds on the first day of the applicable Index Rate Period at a price (without regard to accrued interest) equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof. (b) Determination of Index Rate.
(i) During each Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, such Bonds shall bear interest at an Index Rate, as specified in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate delivered to the Trustee on the first day of such Interest Rate Period. One Business Day prior to the Conversion Date of a Series of Bonds to a SOFR Index Rate, the SOFR Index Rate shall be calculated by the Calculation Agent and shall be in effect from and including the Conversion Date to (but not including) the first Index Rate Reset Date. (ii) With respect to each SIFMA Index Rate Period, (A) the Calculation Agent shall determine the SIFMA Index by 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on each Wednesday or, if such Wednesday is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately succeeding such Wednesday, and (B) the SIFMA Index Rate shall be determined by the Calculation Agent at or before 12:00 noon, New York City time, on each Index Rate Reset Date. (iii) With respect to each SOFR Index Rate Period, the Calculation Agent shall (A) determine and provide to the Trustee by Electronic Means the SOFR Index by 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on each SOFR Publish Date, and (B) determine and provide to the Trustee by Electronic Means the SOFR Index Rate by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on each SOFR Effective Date.
(iv) During any Index Rate Period, interest shall be computed on the basis of a 365 or 366-day year and actual days elapsed. The Calculation Agent shall calculate and provide by Electronic Means to the Issuer and the Trustee the amount of interest due and payable on each Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index (A) with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SIFMA Index Rate, on or prior to each Interest Payment Date, and (B) with respect to a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SOFR Index Rate, on each Interest Payment Date, which in case of a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SOFR Index Rate shall be the SOFR Interest Calculation Date. The amount of interest due on a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SIFMA Index Rate on any Interest Payment Date shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in the calendar month immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. The amount of interest due on a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SOFR Index Rate on any Interest Payment Date shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in the SOFR Accrual Period immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. All percentages resulting from any step in the calculation of interest on a Series of Bonds while in an Index Rate Period will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one millionth of a percentage point (i.e., to six decimal places, with 0.0000005 rounded upward to 0.000001), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation of interest on such Bonds while in an Index Rate Period will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward).
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43 (v) In determining the interest rate that any Bond shall bear as provided in this Section 2.09, neither the Underwriter nor the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, the Calculation Agent, nor the Trustee shall have any liability to the Issuer or the Holder of such Bond, except for its own negligence or willful misconduct. (vi) If, during any Index Rate Period, the Index or rate used to determine an Index Rate is not reported by the relevant source at the time necessary for determination of such Index Rate or otherwise ceases to be available, the Issuer or its independent financial advisor (as applicable) shall determine a replacement or substitute Index Rate (as applicable), including any alternative rate and any adjustments, and promptly provide the same via Electronic Means to the Calculation Agent and the Trustee, together with the effective date of the substitute or replacement Index Rate, which substitute or replacement must be consistent with any corresponding substitute or replacement index designated pursuant to the relevant Interest Rate Swap.
(c) Conversion to or Continuation of Index Rate Period. Subject to Section 2.10, at any time, the Issuer, in a Written Direction of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), may elect that a Series of Bonds shall bear interest at an Index Rate. Such direction of the Issuer shall specify the proposed effective date of the Index Rate Period, which date shall be a Business Day not earlier than the 30th day following the second Business Day after receipt by the Trustee of the Written Direction of the Issuer, and either (A) in the case of a Conversion from a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Term Rate Period, the day immediately following the last day of such Interest Rate Period, or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture, with such right to be exercised by delivery of an Index Rate Continuation Notice; (ii) the last day of such Index Rate Period, which day shall be either the day immediately prior to the Final Maturity Date for the applicable Series of Bonds, or a day which immediately precedes a Business Day. In addition, such direction of the Issuer shall be accompanied by the form of a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel proposed to be delivered on the Conversion Date and a form of the notice to be mailed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.09(d).
(d) Notice of Conversion to or Continuation of Index Rate. Following timely receipt of a Written Direction of the Issuer directing the Conversion of a Series of Bonds to the Index Rate Period as provided in Section 2.09(b), the Trustee shall give notice by first-class mail of the Conversion of such Bonds to bear interest in a (or the establishment of another) Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to the Owners of the Bonds of such Series not less than thirty (30) days prior to the proposed effective date of such Index Rate Period. Such notice shall be in the form provided to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.09(c) to state: (i) that the Interest Rate Period for such Bonds shall be converted to, or continue to be, an Index Rate Period unless (A) the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Series to an Index Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b) or (B) Bond Counsel shall fail to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel as to such Conversion on the Index Rate Conversion Date; (ii) that such Bonds are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the Index Rate Conversion Date and setting forth the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds; and (iii) that the Bonds of such Series are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the proposed Conversion Date unless the Issuer rescinds its election to convert the Interest Rate Period for the Bonds of such Item 2
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44 Series to an Index Rate Period as provided in Section 2.10(b); and (iv) the applicable Purchase Price and the place of delivery for purchase of such Bonds.
Section 2.10. Notice of Conversion. (a) In the event that the Issuer shall elect to convert the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period, a Term Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period as provided in this Article II, then the Written Direction of the Issuer required to be delivered to the Trustee by the applicable provision of this Article II shall be given by registered or certified mail, or by Electronic Means.
(b) Notwithstanding anything in this Article II, in connection with any Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the Issuer shall have the right to deliver to the Trustee and the Remarketing Agent (if any), on or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the effective date of any such Conversion a Written Direction of the Issuer to the effect that the Issuer elects to rescind its election to make such Conversion. If the Issuer rescinds its election to make such Conversion, then the Interest Rate Period shall not be converted and the Bonds of the applicable Series shall continue to bear interest in the Daily Interest Rate Period, Weekly Interest Rate Period, Term Rate Period, Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period or Index Rate Period, as the case may be, as in effect immediately prior to such proposed Conversion, and the Term Rate Tender Date or Index Rate Tender Date, if applicable, for any such Series of Bonds shall also remain unchanged from that in effect immediately prior to such proposed Conversion.
(c) No Conversion of a Series of Bonds from one Interest Rate Period to another, and no continuation or establishment of a new Term Rate Period or Index Rate Period, shall take effect under this Indenture unless each of the following conditions, to the extent applicable, shall have been satisfied:
(i) the Trustee shall have received a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel with respect to such Conversion;
(ii) with respect to any Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate or a Term Rate, no Conversion may occur with respect to such Bonds earlier than (A) the Business Day following the last day of the applicable Interest Rate Period or (B) a day on which all of the Outstanding Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(b) or an applicable Supplemental Indenture; (iii) in the case of any Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period or a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, prior to the Conversion Date the Issuer shall have appointed a Remarketing Agent and shall have executed and delivered a Remarketing Agreement with respect to such Series of Bonds, and shall have obtained a Liquidity Facility with respect to such Series of Bonds as required by Section 2.11;
(iv) in the case of a Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to an Index Rate Period, prior to the Conversion Date the Issuer shall have appointed a Item 2
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45 Calculation Agent and executed and delivered a Calculation Agent Agreement with respect to such Series of Bonds; and
(v) the remarketing proceeds available on the Conversion Date shall not be less than the amount required to purchase all of the Bonds of such Series at the applicable Purchase Price (unless the Issuer in its sole discretion elects to transfer to the Trustee the amount of such deficiency on or before the Conversion Date). (d) If any condition to the Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds shall not have been satisfied, then the Interest Rate Period shall not be converted and the Bonds of the applicable Series shall continue in the Daily Interest Rate Period, Weekly Interest Rate Period, Index Rate Period, Term Rate Period, or Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, as the case may be, as in effect immediately prior to such proposed Conversion (provided, that the period of any such continuing Term Rate Period shall be one year), and the Bonds of such Series shall continue to be subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the date which would have been the effective date of the Conversion as provided in Section 4.14.
Section 2.11. Liquidity Facility. In connection with the issuance of any Series of Bonds, or the Conversion of any Series of Bonds, to bear interest in a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, the Issuer shall obtain a Liquidity Facility for such Series of Bonds, and the Issuer may elect to obtain a Liquidity Facility for any Series of Bonds bearing interest in a Term Rate Period or an Index Rate Period. Provisions concerning any Liquidity Facility so obtained with respect to such Series of Bonds shall be set forth in a Supplemental Indenture.
Section 2.12. Provisions Regarding Commodity Swaps. (a) In connection with the Clean Energy Project, the Issuer shall enter into the initial Commodity Swaps with the Commodity Swap Counterparties. The following shall apply to each such Commodity Swap:
(i) The method for the calculation of the Commodity Swap Payments and Commodity Swap Receipts, as applicable, and the scheduled payment dates therefor, are set forth in Schedule III hereto.
(ii) Commodity Swap Payments shall be made by the Trustee (for the account of the Issuer) from the Commodity Swap Payment Fund.
(iii) Commodity Swap Receipts shall be payable directly to the Trustee (for the account of the Issuer) and shall be deposited directly into the Revenue Fund. (b) The following shall apply with respect to restrictions on replacement and termination of each Commodity Swap:
(i) Except as provided in clause (iii) below, the Issuer agrees that it will not exercise any right to declare an early termination date under the Commodity Swap unless either (A) the Issuer has entered into a replacement Commodity Swap in accordance with clause (ii) or (iii) below, and such replacement Commodity Swap will be effective as of such early termination date and cover price exposure from and after such early termination date, or (B) the Issuer causes or permits the termination of the Energy Purchase Agreement, Item 2
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46 including by designating an Energy Delivery Termination Date in accordance with Section
17.2 of the Energy Purchase Agreement, prior to or as of such early termination date. (ii) The Issuer may replace the Commodity Swap (and any related guaranty of the Commodity Swap Counterparty’s obligations thereunder) with a similar agreement for the same hedging purposes with an alternate Commodity Swap Counterparty at any time upon delivery to the Trustee of a Rating Confirmation.
(iii) If the Commodity Swap is subject to termination (or, in the case of clause (B) below, is terminated) by either party in accordance with its terms, then (A) the Issuer may, subject to clause (i) above, terminate the Commodity Swap if the Issuer has the right to do so, and (B) the Issuer may enter into a replacement Commodity Swap with an alternate Commodity Swap Counterparty without Rating Confirmation, but only if the replacement Commodity Swap is identical in all material respects to the existing Commodity Swap, except for the identity of the Commodity Swap Counterparty, and (1) the replacement Commodity Swap Counterparty (or its credit support provider under the Commodity Swap) is then rated at least the lower of (a) the credit rating of the Funding Recipient or (b) the rating then assigned by each Rating Agency to the Bonds, or (2) the Commodity Swap Counterparty provides such collateral and security arrangements as the Issuer shall determine to be necessary, and (3) in either case, the replacement Commodity Swap Counterparty enters into a replacement Energy Supplier Custodial Agreement with the Energy Supplier and the Custodian that is identical in all material respects to the existing Energy Supplier Custodial Agreements.
(c) The following shall apply with respect to the mandatory termination of each Commodity Swap and the Energy Purchase Agreement:
(i) Upon the occurrence of a Commodity Swap Mandatory Termination Event, the Issuer shall (A) notify the Energy Supplier of such event pursuant to Section 17.5(a) of the Energy Purchase Agreement, and (B) in accordance with Section 17.5(a) of the Energy Purchase Agreement, use its good faith efforts to replace the affected Commodity Swap with an alternate Commodity Swap, subject to the conditions of subsection (b)(ii) above, during the 120-day replacement period contemplated by Section 17.5(a) of the Energy Purchase Agreement or any period that the Custodian, under the terms of the Custodial Agreements, is making payments (an “Alternate Replacement Period”), provided that any such Alternate Replacement Period shall end on the earlier of the date on which the Custodian ceases making payments under the Custodial Agreements and the date of the sixth consecutive monthly payment by the Custodian.
(ii) If the Issuer is unable to enter into an alternate Commodity Swap pursuant to clause (i)(B) above during such 120-day replacement period or Alternate Replacement Period, as applicable, the Issuer shall (A) designate an Energy Delivery Termination Date in accordance with Section 17.2 of the Energy Purchase Agreement, with such Energy Delivery Termination Date occurring immediately at the end of such replacement period, and (B) unless the Commodity Swap has been terminated automatically pursuant to Section 6(a) thereof, designate an early termination date for the Commodity Swap pursuant Item 2
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47 to Section 6(a) thereof with such early termination date occurring concurrently with the Energy Delivery Termination Date described in clause (A) above. (iii) A “Commodity Swap Mandatory Termination Event” occurs if the Commodity Swap becomes terminable by the Issuer pursuant to Part 1(h)(ii) (failure to pay after cure period) of the Schedule to the Commodity Swap.
Section 2.13. Provisions Regarding Interest Rate Swap. (a) In connection with the issuance of any Variable Rate Series of Bonds, or the Conversion of any Series of Bonds, to bear interest in a Daily Interest Rate Period, a Weekly Interest Rate Period, an Index Rate Period or a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, the Issuer shall enter into an Interest Rate Swap with an Interest Rate Swap Counterparty. The following shall apply to the Interest Rate Swap:
(i) The method for the calculation of the Interest Rate Swap Payments and Interest Rate Swap Receipts, as applicable, and the scheduled payment dates therefor are set forth in the Interest Rate Swap;
(ii) Interest Rate Swap Payments shall be made by the Trustee (for the account of the Issuer) from the Debt Service Account on parity with principal and interest payments on Bonds; and
(iii) Interest Rate Swap Receipts shall be payable directly to the Trustee (for the account of the Issuer) and shall be deposited directly into the Debt Service Account. (b) The following shall apply with respect to restrictions on replacement and termination of the Interest Rate Swap:
(i) The Issuer agrees that it will not exercise any right to declare an early termination date under the Interest Rate Swap unless either (A) the Issuer has entered into a replacement Interest Rate Swap in accordance with clause (ii) and (iii) below, and such replacement Interest Rate Swap will be effective as of such early termination date and cover interest rate exposure from and after such early termination date, or (B) in all other cases, the Energy Purchase Agreement will terminate prior to or as of such early termination date.
(ii) The Issuer may replace the Interest Rate Swap (and any related guaranty of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty’s obligations thereunder) with a similar agreement for the same hedging purposes with an alternate Interest Rate Swap Counterparty at any time upon delivery to the Trustee of a Rating Confirmation.
(iii) If the Interest Rate Swap is subject to termination (or, in the case of clause (B) below, is terminated) by either party in accordance with its terms, then (A) the Issuer may, subject to clause (i) above, terminate the Interest Rate Swap if the Issuer has the right to do so, and (B) the Issuer may enter into a replacement Interest Rate Swap with an alternate Interest Rate Swap Counterparty without Rating Confirmation, but only if the replacement Interest Rate Swap is identical in all material respects to the existing Interest Rate Swap, except for the identity of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty, and (1) the alternate Interest Rate Swap Counterparty (or its credit support provider under the Interest Item 2
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48 Rate Swap) is then rated at least the lower of (a) the credit rating of the Funding Recipient or (b) at least as highly as the rating then assigned by each Rating Agency to the Bonds, or (2) the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty provides such collateral and security arrangements as the Issuer shall determine to be necessary.
Section 2.14. CPI Index Rate Periods. The provisions of this Section 2.14 shall apply to Index Rate Bonds bearing interest in a CPI Index Rate Period. (a) Determination of Applicable Spread. In connection with the issuance of a Series of Bonds bearing interest at a CPI Index Rate, or the Conversion of the Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds to a CPI Index Rate Period, the Underwriter or Remarketing Agent, as applicable, shall determine the Applicable Spread for such Bonds for the duration of the applicable CPI Index Rate Period, and such Applicable Spread shall be specified in the Supplemental Indenture or Index Rate Determination Certificate for the applicable CPI Index Rate Period. The Applicable Spread for a CPI Index Rate Period shall be such amount as shall result in the minimum interest rate(s) which, if borne by the Bonds of the applicable Series as of the first day of the applicable CPI Index Rate Period, under Prevailing Market Conditions, would enable the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, to sell the Bonds at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of such Bonds on the first day of the applicable CPI Index Rate Period. (b) Determination of CPI Index Rate.
(i) During any CPI Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, such Bonds shall bear interest at the CPI Index Rate, determined using the CPI Index Rate Formula and the Applicable Spread, as specified in the applicable Index Rate Determination Certificate delivered to the Trustee on the first day of such CPI Index Rate Period. (ii) The Calculation Agent shall by noon, New York time, on each CPI Index Rate Reset Date (or, if such CPI Index Rate Reset Date is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) determine the CPI Index Rate for the CPI Interest Rate Period that begins on such CPI Index Rate Reset Date. The Calculation Agent shall also calculate and provide to the Issuer and the Trustee the amount of interest due and payable on each Interest Payment Date for the applicable Series of Bonds at least two Business Days prior to such Interest Payment Date. The Calculation Agent shall furnish each CPI Index Rate so determined to the Issuer and the Trustee by Electronic Means not later than each CPI Index Rate Reset Date. Upon the written request of any Holder, the Trustee shall confirm the CPI Index Rate then in effect. All percentages resulting from any step in the calculation of interest on a Series of Bonds while in a CPI Index Rate Period will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest hundred thousandth of a percentage point (i.e., to five decimal places) with five millionths of a percentage point rounded upward, and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation of interest on such Bonds while in an Index Rate Period will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward). (iii) During any CPI Index Rate Period, interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30 day calendar months.
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49 (iv) In determining the interest rate that any Bond shall bear as provided in this Section 2.14, neither the Underwriter nor the Remarketing Agent, as applicable, the Calculation Agent, nor the Trustee shall have any liability to the Issuer or the Holder of such Bond, except for its negligence or willful misconduct. (v) If the CPI is not reported on Bloomberg CPURNSA for a particular month by 11:00 a.m. on a CPI Index Rate Reset Date, but the CPI has otherwise been published by the BLS, the Calculation Agent will determine the CPI as published by the BLS for such month using a source it deems to be accurate and appropriate. If the CPI is not published by the BLS for a particular month by 11:00 a.m. on a CPI Index Rate Reset Date, the Calculation Agent will determine the CPI with reference to an index number based on the last twelve-month change in the CPI available and announced by the Department of the Treasury for its Inflation-Indexed Securities as described at 62 Federal Register 846-874 (January 6, 1997) (the “Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities Regulation”) or, if no such index number is announced, in accordance with general market practice at the time. (vi) In calculating CPIt and CPIt-12, the Calculation Agent will use the most recently available value of the CPI determined as described above on the applicable Interest Reset Date, even if such value has been adjusted from a prior reported value for the relevant month. However, if a value of CPIt and CPIt-12 used by the Calculation Agent on any Interest Reset Date to determine the interest rate on the CPI Bonds (an “Initial CPI Value”) is subsequently revised by the BLS, the Calculation Agent will continue to use the Initial CPI Value for all purposes hereunder, and the interest rate on the related CPI Index Rate Reset Date, as determined based upon the Initial CPI Value, will not be revised. (c) CPI Index Rate Continuation.
(i) On any Mandatory Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.13 and unless the Issuer has given notice with respect to the Conversion of the Bonds to an Interest Rate Period other than the CPI Index Rate Period, the Issuer may establish a new CPI Index Rate Period and a new CPI Index Rate for the Bonds with such right to be exercised by delivery of an Index Rate Continuation Notice to the Trustee no less than 30 days prior to the effective date of the new CPI Index Rate Period. The CPI Index Rate Continuation Notice shall be accompanied by a letter of Bond Counsel to the effect that Bond Counsel expects to be able to deliver a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel on the effective date of the new CPI Index Rate Period.
(ii) Any establishment of a new CPI Index Rate and CPI Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds pursuant to paragraph (i) above must comply with the following conditions:
(A) the first day of such new CPI Index Rate Period must be a Mandatory Purchase Date for such Bonds pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.13, and such Bonds shall be required to be tendered for purchase on such date;
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50 (B) the first day of such new CPI Index Rate Period must be a Business Day; and
(C) no new CPI Index Rate shall become effective unless (x) the Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel referred to in paragraph (i) above is delivered on the first day of the new CPI Index Rate Period and (y) there is no Failed Remarketing on the Mandatory Purchase Date on which such new CPI Index Rate Period is to become effective.
(iii) Upon receipt by the Trustee of a CPI Index Rate Continuation Notice from an Authorized Officer, as soon as practicable, but in any event not less than 10 Business Days prior to the first day of the proposed CPI Index Rate Period, the Issuer (or any dissemination agent appointed by the Issuer) shall give notice by first class mail or by Electronic Means via EMMA to the Holders of the Bonds of the applicable Series, which notice shall state in substance:
(A) that a new CPI Index Rate Period and CPI Index Rate is to be established for such Bonds and the proposed effective date of such new CPI Index Rate Period (which date shall be the Mandatory Purchase Date for such Bonds pursuant to Section 4.13), and that such new CPI Index Rate Period and CPI Index Rate will become effective on such date if the conditions specified in this Section 2.14 are satisfied on or before such date;
(B) that all Bonds of the applicable Series are subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the applicable Mandatory Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.13 (whether or not the proposed new CPI Index Rate Period becomes effective on such date) at the Purchase Price, which shall be specified therein; (C) the first day of the new CPI Index Rate Period;
(D) that the new CPI Index Rate Period and CPI Index Rate for the Bonds shall not be established unless a Favorable Opinion of Bond Counsel is delivered to the Trustee on the first day of the new CPI Index Rate Period and no Failed Remarketing occurs on such date;
(E) the CUSIP numbers or other identification information of the Bonds of the applicable Series; and
(F) that, to the extent that there shall be on deposit with the Trustee on the first day of the new CPI Index Rate Period an amount of money sufficient to pay the Purchase Price thereof, all the Bonds not delivered to the Trustee on or prior to such date shall be deemed to have been properly tendered for purchase and shall cease to constitute or represent a right on behalf of the Holder thereof to the payment of principal thereof or interest thereon and shall represent and constitute only the right to payment of the Purchase Price on deposit with the Trustee, without interest accruing thereon after such date.
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51 (d) End of CPI Index Rate Period. In the event the Issuer has not given a CPI Index Rate Continuation Notice or other Written Notice reasonably acceptable to the Trustee with respect to the Conversion of Bonds to an Interest Rate Period other than a CPI Index Rate Period, in either case at the time required by this Indenture, or if the conditions to the effectiveness of a new CPI Index Rate Period and new CPI Index Rate set forth above are not satisfied, including as a result of the Remarketing Agent’s failure to establish a CPI Index Rate as herein provided, then the Bonds of the applicable Series shall be purchased on the applicable Mandatory Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.13 and a Failed Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred and the Bonds shall not be remarketed.
ARTICLE III
GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF BONDS
Section 3.01. Medium of Payment; Form and Date; Letters and Numbers. (a) The Bonds shall be payable, with respect to interest, principal and Redemption Price, in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
(b) The Bonds may be issued only in the form of fully registered Bonds without coupons, in Authorized Denominations. The Bonds shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, and may be printed, engraved, typewritten or otherwise produced. (c) Unless the Issuer shall otherwise direct, the Bonds shall be numbered from one upward, with a separate designation for each Series.
Section 3.02. Legends. The Bonds may contain or have endorsed thereon such provisions, specifications and descriptive words not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be necessary or desirable to comply with custom, the rules of any securities exchange or commission or brokerage board, or otherwise, as may be determined by the Issuer prior to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Section 3.03. Execution and Authentication. (a) The parties agree that the Electronic Signature of a party to this Indenture, including all acknowledgements, authorizations, directions, waivers and consents thereto (or any amendment or supplement thereto) shall be as valid as an original signature of such party and shall be effective to bind such party to this Indenture. The parties agree that any Electronically Signed document (including this Indenture) shall be deemed (i) to be “written” or “be in writing,” (ii) to have been signed, and (iii) to constitute a record established and maintained in the ordinary course of business and an original written record when printed from electronic files. For purposes hereof, “Electronic Signature” or “Electronically Signed” means a manually signed original signature that is then transmitted by Electronic Means and containing, or to which there is affixed, an Electronic Signature. (b) The Bonds shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by the manual or facsimile signature of the Chair or any other Authorized Officer of the Issuer, and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary of the Issuer or any other Authorized Officer. In case any one or more of the officers who shall have signed any of the Bonds shall cease to be such officer before Item 2
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52 the Bonds so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, such Bonds may, nevertheless, be authenticated and delivered as herein provided, and may be issued as if the Persons who signed such Bonds had not ceased to hold such offices. Any Bond may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such Persons as at the time of the execution of such Bonds shall be duly authorized or hold the proper office in the Issuer, although at the date borne by the Bonds such Persons may not have been so authorized or have held such office.
(c) The Bonds shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication, in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by the Trustee. Only such Bonds as shall bear thereon such certificate of authentication shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this Indenture, and no Bond shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose until such certificate of authentication shall have been duly executed by the Trustee. Such certificate of the Trustee upon any Bond executed on behalf of the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Bond so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and that the Holder thereof is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
(d) The parties agree that the Electronic Signature of a party to this Indenture, including all acknowledgements, authorizations, directions, waivers and consents thereto (or any amendment or supplement thereto) shall be as valid as an original signature of such party and shall be effective to bind such party to this Indenture. The parties agree that any Electronically Signed Document (including this Indenture) shall be deemed (i) to be “written” or “in writing,” (ii) to have been signed, and (iii) to constitute a record established and maintained in the ordinary course of business and an original written record when printed from electronic files. For purposes hereof, “Electronic Signature” means a manually signed original signature that is then transmitted by Electronic Means; “transmitted by Electronic Means” means sent in the form of a facsimile or sent via the Internet as a pdf (portable document format) or other replicating image attached to an e-mail message; and, “Electronically Signed Document” means a document transmitted by Electronic Means and containing, or to which there is affixed, an Electronic Signature. Paper copies or “printouts,” if introduced as evidence in any judicial, arbitral, mediation or administrative proceeding, will be admissible as between the parties to the same extent and under the same conditions as other original business records created and maintained in documentary form. Neither party shall contest the admissibility of true and accurate copies of Electronically Signed Documents on the basis of the best evidence rule or as not satisfying the business records exception to the hearsay rule.
Section 3.04. Exchange, Transfer and Registry. (a) The Bonds shall be registered and transferred only upon the books of the Issuer, which shall be held and controlled by the Bond Registrar and kept for such purposes at the designated corporate trust office of the Bond Registrar, and may be transferred by the registered owner thereof in person or by its attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender thereof together with a written instrument of transfer, in form and with guaranty of signature satisfactory to the Bond Registrar duly executed by the registered owner or its duly authorized attorney and in compliance with the applicable terms of this Indenture. The transferor shall also provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee all information reasonably required by the Trustee to allow it to comply with any applicable federal, state or local tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, any cost-basis reporting obligations under Internal Revenue Code Section 6045. The Trustee may rely on such information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information. Upon the registration Item 2
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53 of transfer of any Bond, the Issuer shall issue in the name of the transferee a new Bond or Bonds of the same Series, aggregate principal amount and maturity as the surrendered Bond. (b) The registered owner of any Bond or Bonds of one or more denominations shall have the right to exchange such Bond or Bonds for a new Bond or Bonds of any denomination then authorized for such Bond or Bonds of the same Series, aggregate principal amount and maturity of the surrendered Bond or Bonds. Such Bond or Bonds shall be exchanged by the Issuer for a new Bond or Bonds upon the request of the registered owner thereof in person or by its attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender of such Bond or Bonds together with a written instrument requesting such exchange, in form satisfactory to the Bond Registrar duly executed by the registered owner or its duly authorized attorney.
(c) The Issuer and each Fiduciary may deem and treat the Person in whose name any Bond shall be registered upon the Bond registration books maintained by the Bond Registrar as the absolute owner of such Bond, whether such Bond shall be overdue or not, for the purpose of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal and Redemption Price, if any, of and interest on such Bond and for all other purposes, and all such payments so made to any such registered owner or upon its order shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability upon such Bond to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, and neither the Issuer nor any Fiduciary shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
Section 3.05. Regulations With Respect to Exchanges and Registration of Transfers. In all cases in which the privilege of exchanging or registering the transfer of Bonds is exercised, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Bonds in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. All Bonds surrendered in any such exchanges or registration of transfer shall forthwith be delivered to the Trustee and cancelled or retained by the Trustee. Prior to every such exchange or registration of transfer of Bonds, whether temporary or definitive, the Trustee or the Bond Registrar may require the Holder to pay an amount sufficient to reimburse it for any tax, fee or other governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such exchange or transfer. Every applicable person that transfers Bonds in any such exchange or transfer shall also timely provide or cause to be provided to the Trustee all information necessary to allow the Trustee to comply with any applicable tax reporting obligation, including without limitation any cost-basis reporting obligations under Section 6045 of the Internal Revenue Code and the applicable Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. The Trustee may rely on the information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information. Unless otherwise provided in a Supplemental Indenture, neither the Trustee nor the Bond Registrar shall be required (a) to register the transfer or exchange of Bonds for the period next preceding any Interest Payment Date for the Bonds, beginning with the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date and ending on such Interest Payment Date, or for the period next preceding any date for the proposed payment of Defaulted Interest with respect to such Bonds beginning with the Special Record Date for the date of such proposed payment and ending on the date of such proposed payment, (b) to register the transfer or exchange of Bonds for a period beginning 15 days before the mailing of any notice of redemption of such Bonds and ending on the day of such mailing, or (c) to register the transfer or exchange of any Bonds called for redemption. Every Person that transfers Bonds shall timely provide or cause to be timely provided to the Trustee all information necessary to allow the Trustee to comply with any applicable tax reporting obligations, including without limitation any cost-basis reporting obligations under Section 6045 of the Internal Revenue Code Item 2
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54 and regulations promulgated thereunder. The Trustee may rely on the information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information.
Section 3.06. Bonds Mutilated, Destroyed, Stolen or Lost. If any Bond becomes mutilated or is lost, stolen or destroyed, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a new Bond of like Series, date of issue, maturity date, principal amount and interest rate per annum as the Bond so mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, provided that (a) in the case of such mutilated Bond, such Bond is first surrendered to the Trustee, (b) in the case of any such lost, stolen or destroyed Bond, there is first furnished evidence of such loss, theft or destruction in form satisfactory to the Trustee together with indemnity satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee, (c) all other reasonable requirements of the Issuer and the Trustee are complied with, and (d) expenses in connection with such transaction are paid by the Holder. Any Bond surrendered for registration or transfer shall be cancelled. Any such new Bonds issued pursuant to this Section in substitution for Bonds alleged to be destroyed, stolen or lost shall constitute original additional contractual obligations on the part of the Issuer, whether or not the Bonds so alleged to be destroyed, stolen or lost be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be equally secured by and entitled to equal and proportionate benefits with all other Bonds issued under this Indenture, in any moneys or securities held by the Issuer or any Fiduciary for the benefit of the Bondholders.
Section 3.07. Temporary Bonds. (a) Until the definitive Bonds are prepared, the Issuer may execute, in the same manner as is provided in Section 3.03, and upon the request of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of definitive Bonds, but subject to the same provisions, limitations and conditions as the definitive Bonds, one or more temporary Bonds substantially of the tenor of the definitive Bonds in lieu of which such temporary Bond or Bonds are issued, and with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate to temporary Bonds. The Issuer at its own expense shall prepare and execute and, upon the surrender of such temporary Bonds for exchange and the cancellation of such surrendered temporary Bonds, the Trustee shall authenticate and, without service charge to the Holder thereof (except a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto), deliver in exchange therefor, definitive Bonds of the same aggregate principal amount and maturity as the temporary Bonds surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary Bonds shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and security as definitive Bonds authenticated and issued pursuant to this Indenture.
(b) All temporary Bonds surrendered in exchange either for another temporary Bond or Bonds or for a definitive Bond or Bonds shall be forthwith cancelled by the Trustee.
Section 3.08. Payment of Interest on Bonds; Interest Rights Preserved. Interest on any Bond which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Bond is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date.
Any interest on any Bond which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (hereinafter, “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Person who was the registered owner on the relevant Regular Record Date; and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Issuer to the Persons in whose names the Bonds are registered at the close of business on a date (hereinafter, the “Special Record Date”) for the Item 2
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55 payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Issuer shall notify the Bond Registrar in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Bond and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agents an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to and approved in writing by the Paying Agents for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Section provided. Thereupon the Bond Registrar shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days or less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Bond Registrar of the written notice of the proposed payment. The Bond Registrar shall promptly notify the Issuer of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Bondholder at its address as it appears upon the registry books, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Bond delivered under this Indenture upon registration or transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Bond shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Bond.
Section 3.09. Book Entry System; Appointment of Securities Depository. All Bonds shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC, as Securities Depository, and held in the custody or for the account of the Securities Depository. A single certificate will be issued and delivered to the Securities Depository for each maturity of Bonds, and the Beneficial Owners will not receive physical delivery of Bond certificates except as provided in this Indenture. For so long as the Securities Depository shall continue to serve as securities depository for the Bonds as provided herein, all transfers of Beneficial Ownership interests will be made by book entry only, and no investor or other party purchasing, selling or otherwise transferring Beneficial Ownership of Bonds is to receive, hold or deliver any Bond certificate. In connection with any proposed transfer outside the Book Entry System, the Issuer or the Securities Depository shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee all information reasonably required by the Trustee to allow it to comply with any applicable federal, state or local tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, any cost-basis reporting obligations under Internal Revenue Code Section 6045. The Trustee may rely on such information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information.
The Issuer may, with Written Notice to the Trustee but without the consent of any Bondholders, appoint a successor Securities Depository and enter into an agreement with the successor Securities Depository, to establish procedures with respect to a Book Entry System for the Bonds not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. Any successor Securities Depository shall be a “clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
The Issuer and the Trustee may rely conclusively upon (i) a certificate of the Securities Depository as to the identity of the Participants in the Book Entry System with respect to the Bonds, and (ii) a certificate of any such Participant as to the identity of, and the respective principal amount of the Bonds beneficially owned by the Beneficial Owners.
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56 Whenever, during the term of the Bonds, the Beneficial Ownership of any Series thereof is determined by a book entry at the Securities Depository, the requirements in this Indenture of holding, delivering or transferring such Bonds shall be deemed modified to require the appropriate Person to meet the requirements of the Securities Depository as to registering or transferring the book entry to produce the same effect. Any provision hereof permitting or requiring delivery of the Bonds shall, while such Bonds are in such Book Entry System, be satisfied by the notation on the books of the Securities Depository in accordance with applicable state law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any security (including any transfers between or among Securities Depository Participants or Beneficial Owners) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein with respect to the rights of Participants and Beneficial Owners, when a Book Entry System is in effect, the Issuer and the Trustee may treat the Securities Depository (or its nominee) as the sole and exclusive owner of the Bonds registered in its name for the purposes of payment of the principal, Redemption Price or Purchase Price of and interest on such Bonds or portion thereof to be redeemed or purchased, of giving any notice permitted or required to be given to the Bondholders under this Indenture and of voting, and neither the Issuer nor the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Issuer nor the Trustee will have any responsibility or obligations to the Securities Depository, any Participant, any Beneficial Owner or any other Person which is not shown on the bond register, with respect to (a) the accuracy of any records maintained by the Securities Depository or any Participant; (b) the payment by the Securities Depository or by any Participant of any amount due to any Beneficial Owner in respect of the principal amount, Redemption Price or Purchase Price of, or interest on, any Bonds; (c) the delivery of any notice by the Securities Depository or any Participant; (d) the selection of the Beneficial Owners to receive payment in the event of any partial redemption of any of the Bonds; or (e) any other action taken by the Securities Depository or any Participant. The Trustee shall pay all principal or Redemption Price of and interest on the Bonds registered in the name of Cede only to or “upon the order of” the Securities Depository (as that term is used in the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the State and New York), and all such payments shall be valid and effective to fully satisfy and discharge the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the principal, Redemption Price or purchase price of and interest on such Bonds to the extent of the sum or sums so paid.
The Book Entry System may be discontinued by the Trustee and the Issuer, at the Written Direction and expense of the Issuer, and the Issuer and the Trustee will cause the delivery of Bond certificates to such Beneficial Owners of the Bonds and registered in the names of such Beneficial Owners as shall be specified to the Trustee by the Securities Depository in writing, under the following circumstances:
(i) The Securities Depository determines to discontinue providing its service with respect to any Bonds and no successor Securities Depository is appointed as described above. Such a determination may be made at any time by giving 30 days’ written notice to Item 2
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57 the Issuer and the Trustee and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law; or
(ii) The Issuer determines, with written notice to the Trustee, not to continue the Book Entry System through a Securities Depository for the Bonds.
When the Book Entry System is not in effect, all references herein to the Securities Depository shall be of no further force or effect.
In connection with any proposed transfer outside the Book Entry System of the Securities Depository, the Securities Depository and the Issuer shall provide or cause to be provided to the Trustee all information necessary to allow the Trustee to comply with any applicable tax reporting obligations, including without limitation cost-basis reporting obligations under Section 6045 of the Internal Revenue Code and the applicable Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. The Trustee may rely on the information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information.
Section 3.10. Subsidy Payments. In the event that one or more Series of Bonds are issued which qualify the Issuer to receive Subsidy Payments and the Issuer, in a Supplemental Indenture, pledges such Subsidy Payments to the repayment of the principal of, and interest on, the Bonds, then, to the extent such Subsidy Payments are received by the Trustee, they shall constitute Revenues under the Indenture.
Section 3.11. Limitation of Liability of the Issuer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Bonds, all obligations of the Issuer to make payments of any kind pursuant to this Indenture are special, limited obligations of the Issuer, payable solely from, and secured solely by, the Trust Estate as and to the extent provided herein. The Issuer shall not be required to advance any moneys derived from any source other than the Revenues and other assets pledged under this Indenture for any of the purposes in this Indenture mentioned, whether for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Bonds or for any other purpose of this Indenture. Neither the faith and credit of the Issuer nor the taxing power of the State or any political subdivision thereof is pledged to payments pursuant to this Indenture or the Bonds. The Issuer shall not be directly, indirectly, contingently or otherwise liable for any costs, expenses, losses, damages, claims or actions, of any conceivable kind on any conceivable theory, under or by reasons of or in connection with this Indenture or the Clean Energy Project, except solely to the extent Revenues are received for the payment thereof.
ARTICLE IV
REDEMPTION OF BONDS AND TENDER PROVISIONS
Section 4.01. Extraordinary Redemption. (a) The Bonds shall be subject to mandatory redemption prior to maturity in whole, and not in part, on the first day of the Month following the Early Termination Payment Date, which redemption date in the case of a Failed Remarketing will Item 2
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58 be the same day as the next-occurring Mandatory Purchase Date, at the following Redemption Prices:
(i) in the case of a Series of Bonds bearing interest in a Term Rate Period (including the Series 2025[_] Bonds), the Amortized Value thereof, and (ii) in the case of a Series of Variable Rate Bonds, 100% of the principal amount thereof,
plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date at the initial interest rates on the Bonds or the Increased Interest Rate, whichever is then in effect. (b) The Issuer shall (i) provide the Trustee with Written Notice of the Early Termination Payment Date as provided in Section 7.12(b), and (ii) as of the first day of the Month prior to a Mandatory Purchase Date, direct the Trustee to send a conditional notice of redemption pursuant to Section 4.04 in the event that a Failed Remarketing may occur.
Section 4.02. Sinking Fund Redemption. (a) The Series 2025[_] Bonds maturing on [__] 1, 20[__] shall be subject to mandatory redemption prior to their stated maturity in part (by lot) from Sinking Fund Installments, at a Redemption Price equal to the principal amount thereof, without premium, plus accrued interest to the date of redemption on the following dates and in the following amounts:
REDEMPTION
DATE
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
REDEMPTION
DATE
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
[__ 1, 20__] $[__] [____ 1, 20__] $[__]
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DATE
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AMOUNT
REDEMPTION
DATE
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
*
* Stated Maturity
Section 4.03. Optional Redemption. (a) The Series 2025[_] Bonds are subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer in whole or in part (in such amounts and by such maturities as may be specified by the Issuer and by lot within a maturity) on any date prior to [___] 1, 20[__] at a Redemption Price, calculated by a quotation agent selected by the Issuer, equal to the greater of:
(i) the sum of the present values of the remaining unpaid payments of principal and interest to be paid on the Series 2025[_] Bond to be redeemed from and including the date of redemption (not including any portion of the interest accrued and unpaid as of the redemption date) to the earlier of the stated maturity date of such Series 2025[_] Bond or the Mandatory Purchase Date, discounted to the date of redemption on a semiannual basis at a discount rate equal to the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate for such Series 2025[_] Bonds minus 0.25% per annum provided, however, that if the Applicable Tax-Exempt Municipal Bond Rate results in a discount rate less than zero percent, such discount shall be 0.00% in any event, and
(ii) the Amortized Value thereof;
in each case plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption at the initial interest rates on the Series 2025[_] Bonds or the Increased Interest Rate, whichever is then in effect. (b) The Series 2025[_] Bonds maturing on the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date are subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer in whole or in part (in such amounts and by such maturities as may be specified by the Issuer and by lot within a maturity) on any date on or after [__] 1, 20[__] at a Redemption Price equal to the Amortized Value thereof as of the date of redemption, plus $0.10 per $1,000 of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption at the initial interest rates on the Series 2025[_] Bonds or the Increased Interest Rate, whichever is then in effect; provided that, if the optional redemption date is the Mandatory Purchase Date, the Redemption Price will be 100% of the principal amount of the Series 2025[_]-1 Bonds to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
The Series 2025[_] Bonds maturing after the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date are subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer in whole or in part (in such amounts and by such maturities as may be specified by the Issuer and by lot within a maturity) on any date on or after [__] 1, 20[__] at a Redemption Price equal to the Amortized Value thereof as of the date of redemption, plus $0.10 per $1,000 of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption at the initial interest rates on the Series 2025[_] Bonds or the Increased Interest Item 2
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60 Rate, whichever is then in effect; provided that, if the optional redemption date is the Mandatory Purchase Date, the Redemption Price will be 100% of the principal amount of the Series 2025[_] Bonds to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption. (c) The Issuer shall provide Written Notice of the identity of the quotation agent to the Trustee.
(d) The Series 2025[_] Bonds shall also be subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer, as provided in a Supplemental Indenture executed or Interest Rate Determination Certificate delivered in connection with a Conversion of the Bonds. (e) For so long as a Series of Bonds is bearing interest in an Index Rate Period, the Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption by the Issuer, in whole or in part (in such amounts and by such maturities as may be specified by the Issuer and at random within a maturity), on any Business Day on or after the first Business Day of the third month preceding the Index Rate Tender Date for such Series of Bonds at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption. (f) For so long as a Series of Bonds is bearing interest in a Daily Interest Rate Period or a Weekly Interest Rate Period, the Bonds of such Series are subject to optional redemption by the Issuer in whole or in part (in such amounts and by such maturities as may be specified by the Issuer and at random within a maturity) on any Business Day at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
(g) For so long as a Series of Bonds is bearing interest in a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, each Bond of such Series is subject to optional redemption by the Issuer on the day succeeding the last day of any CP Interest Term for such Bond at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in connection with the Conversion of a Series of Bonds from one Interest Rate Period to another or the establishment of a new Term Rate Period or Index Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, the Issuer may, in the Written Direction to the Trustee delivered in connection with such Conversion or establishment of a new Term Rate Period or Index Rate Period, designate additional or different terms upon which the Bonds of such Series will be subject to optional redemption during the new Interest Rate Period for such Series of Bonds if such additional or different terms of optional redemption are approved by Bond Counsel.
(i) In lieu of redeeming Series 2025[_] Bonds pursuant to this Section 4.03, the Trustee may, upon the Written Direction of the Issuer, use such funds as may be available by the Issuer or as are otherwise available hereunder to purchase such Series 2025[_] Bonds on the applicable redemption date at a Purchase Price equal to the applicable Redemption Price of such Series 2025[_] Bonds. Any Series 2025[_] Bonds so purchased may be remarketed in a new Interest Rate Period or may be cancelled by the Trustee, in either case as set forth in the Written Direction of the Issuer.
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61 Section 4.04. Redemption Notice. (a) When the Trustee receives Written Notice from the Issuer of its election or direction to optionally redeem Bonds pursuant to Section 4.06, the Trustee shall give notice, in the name of the Issuer, or when redemption of Bonds is authorized or required pursuant to Section 4.01 or other than at the election or direction of the Issuer, pursuant to Section 4.07 the Trustee shall give notice, in the name of the Issuer, of the redemption of such Bonds by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the registered owner of each Bond being redeemed, at its address as it appears on the bond registration books of the Trustee or at such address as such owner may have filed with the Trustee in writing for that purpose, as of the Regular Record Date, as follows:
(i) for any redemption of the Bonds pursuant to Section 4.01, not less than 15 days prior to the redemption date;
(ii) for redemptions of Bonds bearing interest in a Term Rate Period, pursuant to Sections 4.02 and 4.03, not less than 30 days prior to the redemption date; (iii) for redemptions of Variable Rate Bonds pursuant to Sections 4.02 4.03, not less than 15 days prior to the redemption date.
A notice of redemption of the Series 2025[_] Bonds (A) pursuant to clause (iii) above may include a statement that, if the Series 2025[_] Bonds are not redeemed for any reason, the Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be subject to mandatory tender for purchase on the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date, and (B) pursuant to clause (i) or clause (iii) above may be combined with notice of the mandatory tender of the Series 2025[_] Bonds on the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.16, subject to the condition set forth in Section 4.16(b). (b) In the event that the Bonds may be subject to extraordinary redemption as a result of a Failed Remarketing that could occur if the Trustee has not received the Purchase Price of the Bonds by noon New York City time on the fifth Business Day preceding a Mandatory Purchase Date, a notice of extraordinary redemption of the Bonds pursuant to this Section 4.04 may be a conditional notice of redemption, delivered in each case not less than 15 days prior to such Mandatory Purchase Date, stating that: (a) such redemption shall be conditioned upon the Trustee’s failure to receive, by noon New York City time on the fifth Business Day preceding such Mandatory Purchase Date, the Purchase Price of the Bonds required to be purchased on such Mandatory Purchase Date, and (b) if the full amount of the Purchase Price has been received by the Trustee by noon New York City time on the fifth Business Day preceding such Mandatory Purchase Date, the Bonds shall be purchased pursuant to Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 hereof on such Mandatory Purchase Date rather than redeemed. If the full amount of the Purchase Price has been received by the Trustee by noon New York City time on the fifth Business Day preceding such Mandatory Purchase Date, the Trustee shall withdraw such conditional notice of redemption prior to such Mandatory Purchase Date and the Bonds shall be purchased pursuant to Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 hereof on such Mandatory Purchase Date rather than redeemed. (c) Each notice of redemption shall identify the Bonds to be redeemed and shall state (i) the redemption date, (ii) the Redemption Price or the manner in which it will be calculated, (iii) that the Bonds called for redemption must be surrendered to collect the Redemption Price, Item 2
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62 (iv) the address at which the Bonds must be surrendered, and (v) that interest on the Bonds called for redemption ceases to accrue on the redemption date. (d) With respect to any notice of optional redemption of Bonds, unless upon the giving of such notice such Bonds shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning of Section 12.01 of this Indenture, such notice shall state that such redemption shall be conditioned upon the receipt by the Trustee on or prior to the date fixed for such redemption of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and interest on the Bonds to be redeemed, and that if such money shall not have been so received said notice shall be of no force and effect, and the Issuer shall not be required to redeem such Bonds. In the event that such notice of redemption contains such a condition and such money is not so received, the redemption shall not be made and the Trustee shall within a reasonable time thereafter give notice, in the manner in which the notice of redemption was given, that such money was not so received and that such redemption was not made. (e) Failure of the registered owner of any Bonds which are to be redeemed to receive any such notice, or any defect in such notice, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Bonds.
Section 4.05. Bonds Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a Bond redeemed in part, the Issuer will execute and the Trustee will authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof a new Bond or Bonds of the same Series, maturity and tenor in Authorized Denominations equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Bond surrendered. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, so long as the Bonds are held in the Book Entry System the Bonds will not be delivered as set forth above; rather transfers of Beneficial Ownership of such Bonds to the Person indicated above will be effected on the registration books of the Securities Depository pursuant to its rules and procedures.
Section 4.06. Redemption at the Election or Direction of the Issuer. In the case of any redemption of Bonds at the election or direction of the Issuer, the Issuer shall give Written Notice to the Trustee, at least five Business Days prior to the last date on which the Trustee is required to give notice of redemption pursuant to Section 4.04, of its election or direction so to redeem, the Series, Maturity Dates, principal amounts by Maturity Dates and CUSIP numbers of the Bonds to be redeemed, the Redemption Price or the manner in which it will be calculated for each Maturity Date of Bonds to be redeemed, and the date on which such Bonds are to be redeemed, and directing the Trustee to provide notice of such redemption to the Owners of such Bonds pursuant to Section 4.04 (maturities and principal amounts thereof to be redeemed shall be determined by the Issuer in its sole discretion). In the event notice of redemption shall have been given as in Section 4.04 provided, there shall be paid on or prior to the redemption date to the appropriate Paying Agents an amount in cash which, in addition to other moneys, if any, available therefor held by such Paying Agents, will be sufficient to redeem on the redemption date at the Redemption Price thereof, plus interest accrued and unpaid to the redemption date, all of the Bonds to be redeemed. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of all such payments by it to such Paying Agents.
Section 4.07. Redemption Other Than at the Issuer’s Election or Direction. Whenever by the terms of this Indenture the Trustee is required or authorized to redeem Bonds other than at the election or direction of the Issuer, the Trustee shall (i) select the Bonds or portions of Bonds to be Item 2
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63 redeemed, (ii) give the notice of redemption and (iii) pay out of moneys available therefor the Redemption Price thereof (as determined by the quotation agent and provided in a Written Notice to the Trustee), plus interest accrued and unpaid to the redemption date, to the appropriate Paying Agents in accordance with the terms of this Article IV and, to the extent applicable, Section 5.07 and Section 5.08.
Section 4.08. Selection of Bonds To Be Redeemed. If less than all of the Bonds of like Series, tenor and maturity shall be called for redemption, the particular Bonds or portions of Bonds of such Series, tenor and maturity to be redeemed shall be selected by lot in such manner as the Trustee shall determine, in its sole discretion, from Bonds of such Series, tenor and maturity not previously called for redemption; provided, however, that the portion of any Bond of a denomination of more than a minimum Authorized Denomination to be redeemed shall be in the principal amount of such minimum Authorized Denomination or a multiple thereof, and that, in selecting portions of such Bonds for redemption, the Trustee shall treat each such Bond as representing that number of Bonds of a minimum Authorized Denomination which is obtained by dividing by such minimum Authorized Denomination the principal amount of such Bond to be redeemed in part.
Section 4.09. Payment of Redeemed Bonds. Notice having been given in the manner provided in Section 4.04 and, in the case of optional redemption of Bonds, sufficient moneys for payment of the Redemption Price of, together with interest accrued to the redemption date on such Bonds being held by the Trustee, the Bonds or portions thereof so called for redemption shall become due and payable on the redemption date so designated at the applicable Redemption Price, and, upon presentation and surrender thereof at the office specified in such notice, such Bonds, or portions thereof, shall be paid at the Redemption Price. If there shall be drawn for redemption less than all of a Bond, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and the Paying Agent shall deliver, upon the surrender of such Bond, without charge to the owner thereof, for the unredeemed balance of the principal amount of the Bonds so surrendered, Bonds of like Series, maturity and tenor in any of the Authorized Denominations. If, on the redemption date, moneys for the redemption of all the Bonds or portions thereof of any like maturity to be redeemed, together with interest to the redemption date, shall be held by the Paying Agents so as to be available therefor on said date and if notice of redemption shall have been given as aforesaid, then, from and after the redemption date interest on the Bonds or portions thereof of so called for redemption shall cease to accrue and become payable. If said moneys shall not be so available on the redemption date, such Bonds or portions thereof shall continue to bear interest until paid at the same rate as they would have borne had they not been called for redemption. Upon the payment of the Redemption Price of the Bonds or portions thereof being redeemed, each check or other transfer of funds issued for such purpose shall bear the CUSIP number identifying, by maturity, the Bonds being redeemed with the proceeds of such check or other transfer.
Section 4.10. Cancellation and Destruction of Bonds. All Bonds paid or redeemed either at or before maturity shall be delivered to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office when such payment or redemption is made, and such Bonds, together with all Bonds purchased or redeemed pursuant to Section 5.10(c) that have been delivered to the Trustee for application as a credit against Sinking Fund Installments and all Bonds purchased by the Trustee pursuant to the Written Direction of the Issuer, shall thereupon be promptly cancelled (or deemed to have been cancelled). Bonds so cancelled may, to the extent permitted by law, at any time be destroyed by Item 2
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64 the Trustee, who shall execute a certificate of destruction in duplicate by the signature of one of its authorized officers describing the Bonds so destroyed, and one executed certificate shall be filed with the Issuer and the other executed certificate shall be retained by the Trustee.
Section 4.11. Optional Tender During Daily or Weekly Interest Rate Periods. (a) During any Daily Interest Rate Period or Weekly Interest Rate Period for a Series of Bonds, any Eligible Bond of such Series shall be purchased from its Owner at the option of the Owner on any Business Day at the applicable Purchase Price, payable in immediately available funds, upon delivery to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office for delivery of notices and the Remarketing Agent of an irrevocable written notice which states the name of the Owner, the principal amount and the date on which the same shall be purchased, which date shall be a Business Day not prior to the seventh day next succeeding the date of the delivery of such notice to the Trustee. Any notice delivered to the Trustee after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, shall be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day. Payment of such Purchase Price shall be made from the sources and in the order of priority set forth in Section 4.15(e) on the date specified in such notice, provided such Bond is delivered, at or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified in such notice, to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office, accompanied by an instrument of transfer thereof, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed in blank by the Owner thereof or by the Owner’s duly authorized attorney, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank, trust company or member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. (b) So long as the Bonds are registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC, only direct or indirect Participants may give notice of the election to tender Bonds or portions thereof and the Beneficial Owners shall not have the right to tender Bonds directly to the Trustee, except through such Participants.
Section 4.12. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on Day Next Succeeding the Last Day of Each CP Interest Term. On the day next succeeding the last day of each CP Interest Term for an Eligible Bond in a Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, unless such day is the first day of a new Interest Rate Period for such Bond (in which event such Bond shall be subject to mandatory purchase pursuant to Section 4.14), such Bond shall be purchased from its Owner at the applicable Purchase Price payable in immediately available funds, provided such Bond is delivered to the Trustee on or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day, or if delivered after 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that in any event such Bond will not bear interest at the CP Interest Term Rate after the last day of the applicable CP Interest Term. The Purchase Price of any Bond so purchased shall be payable from the sources and in the order of priority set forth in Section 4.15(e) only upon surrender of such Bond to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office, accompanied by an instrument of transfer thereof, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed in blank by the Owner thereof or by the Owner’s duly authorized attorney, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank, trust company or member firm of the New York Stock Exchange.
Section 4.13. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on the Mandatory Purchase Date, Index Rate Tender Date or Term Rate Tender Date. On the Mandatory Purchase Date, Index Rate Tender Date or Term Rate Tender Date for a Series of Bonds (which, for the avoidance of doubt, can occur only on a Mandatory Purchase Date), unless such day is the first day of a new Interest Rate Period for such Bonds (in which event such Bonds shall be subject to mandatory purchase pursuant to Item 2
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65 Section 4.14), each Eligible Bond of such Series shall be purchased from the Owner thereof at the applicable Purchase Price, payable in immediately available funds, provided such Bond is delivered to the Trustee on or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day, or if delivered after 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that in any event such Bond will not bear interest at the applicable Index Rate or Term Rate after the last day of the applicable Index Rate Period or Term Rate Period, respectively. The Purchase Price of any Bond so purchased shall be payable from the sources and in the order of priority specified in Section 4.15(e) only upon surrender of such Bond to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office, accompanied by an instrument of transfer thereof, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed in blank by the Owner thereof or by the Owner’s duly authorized attorney, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank, trust company or member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. The Series 2025[_] Bonds shall be subject to mandatory tender pursuant to this Section 4.13 on the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date.
Section 4.14. Mandatory Tender for Purchase on Conversion of Interest Rate Period.
Eligible Bonds of a Series shall be subject to mandatory tender for purchase on each Conversion Date (which shall be a Mandatory Purchase Date) at the applicable Purchase Price, payable in immediately available funds. The Purchase Price of any Bond so purchased shall be payable from the sources and in the order of priority specified in Section 4.15(e) only upon surrender of such Bond to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office, accompanied by an instrument of transfer thereof, in form satisfactory to such Trustee, executed in blank by the Owner thereof or by the Owner’s duly authorized attorney, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank, trust company or member firm of the New York Stock Exchange at or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified for such delivery in this paragraph or in the notice provided pursuant to Section 2.10.
Section 4.15. General Provisions Relating to Tenders.
(a) Creation of Bond Purchase Fund.
(i) There shall be created and established hereunder with the Trustee a fund to be designated the “Bond Purchase Fund” to be held in trust only for the benefit of the Owners of tendered Bonds who shall thereafter be restricted exclusively to the moneys held in such fund for the satisfaction of any claim for the Purchase Price of such tendered Bonds.
The Bond Purchase Fund and the Accounts therein are not Pledged Funds. (ii) There shall be created and designated the following Accounts with respect to each Series of Bonds within the Bond Purchase Fund: the “Remarketing Proceeds Account” and the “Issuer Purchase Account.” Moneys paid to the Trustee for the purchase of tendered or deemed tendered Bonds of a Series received from (A) the Remarketing Agent shall be deposited in the Remarketing Proceeds Account for such Series in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.15(d)(i) and
(B) the Issuer shall be deposited in the Issuer Purchase Account in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.15(d)(ii). Moneys provided by the Item 2
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66 Issuer not required to be used in connection with the purchase of tendered Bonds shall be returned to the Issuer in accordance with Section 4.15(d) and Section 4.15(e).
(iii) Moneys in the Issuer Purchase Account and the Remarketing Proceeds Account with respect to a Series of Bonds shall not be commingled with other funds held by the Trustee and shall remain uninvested. The Issuer shall have no right, title or interest in any of the funds held on deposit in the Remarketing Proceeds Account or any remarketing proceeds held for any period of time by the Remarketing Agent. (b) Deposit of Bonds. The Trustee agrees to hold all Bonds delivered to it pursuant to Section 4.11, Section 4.12, Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 in trust for the benefit of the respective Owners which shall have so delivered such Bonds until moneys representing the Purchase Price of such Bonds have been delivered to such Owner in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and until such Bonds shall have been delivered by the Trustee in accordance with Section 4.15(f).
(c) Remarketing of Bonds.
(i) Immediately upon its receipt, but not later than noon, New York City time on the following Business Day, from an Owner of a Bond bearing interest at a Daily Interest Rate or a Weekly Interest Rate of a notice pursuant to Section 4.11, the Trustee shall notify the Remarketing Agent by telephone, promptly confirmed in writing by Electronic Means, of such receipt, specifying the principal amount of Bonds for which it has received such notice, the names of the Owners thereof and the date on which such Bonds are to be purchased in accordance with Section 4.11.
(ii) As soon as practicable, but in no event later than 10:15 a.m., New York City time, on a Purchase Date, the Remarketing Agent shall inform the Trustee by telephone, promptly confirmed in writing, by Electronic Means, of the principal amount of Purchased Bonds to be purchased on such date, the name, address and taxpayer identification number of each such purchaser, and the Authorized Denominations in which such Purchased Bonds are to be delivered. Upon receipt from the Remarketing Agent of such information, and in no event later than 12:30 p.m., New York City time, on the Purchase Date, the Trustee shall prepare Purchased Bonds in accordance with such information received from the Remarketing Agent for the registration of transfer and redelivery to the Remarketing Agent pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section 4.15.
(iii) Any Purchased Bonds which are subject to mandatory tender for purchase in accordance with Section 4.12, Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 which are not presented to the Trustee on the Purchase Date and any Purchased Bonds which are the subject of a notice pursuant to Section 4.16 which are not presented to the Trustee on the Purchase Date, shall, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.16, be deemed to have been purchased upon the deposit of moneys equal to the Purchase Price thereof into any or all of the accounts of the Bond Purchase Fund.
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67 (d) Deposits of Funds.
(i) The Trustee shall deposit into the Remarketing Proceeds Account for the applicable Series of Bonds any amounts received by it in immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time, on any Purchase Date from the Remarketing Agent against receipt of Bonds by the Remarketing Agent pursuant to Section 4.15(f) and on account of Purchased Bonds remarketed pursuant to the terms of the Remarketing Agreement.
(ii) The Issuer may, in its sole discretion, pay to the Trustee in immediately available funds the amount equal to the difference, if any, between the total Purchase Price of Bonds to be purchased and the amount of money deposited under Section 4.15(d)(i) (the “Additional Liquidity Drawing Amount”) by 12:45 p.m., New York City time. The Trustee shall deposit any Additional Liquidity Drawing Amounts into the Issuer Purchase Account for the applicable Series of Bonds.
(iii) The Trustee shall hold all proceeds received from the Remarketing Agent or the Issuer pursuant to this Section 4.15(d) in trust for the tendering Owners. In holding such proceeds and moneys, the Trustee will be acting on behalf of such Owners by facilitating the purchase of the Bonds and not on behalf of the Issuer and will not be subject to the control of the Issuer. Subject to the provisions of Section 4.15(e), following the discharge of the pledge created by Section 5.01 or after payment in full of the Bonds, the Trustee shall pay any moneys remaining in any Account of the Bond Purchase Fund directly to the Persons for whom such money is held upon presentation of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee that such Person is rightfully entitled to such money and the Trustee shall not pay such amounts to any other Person. (e) Disbursements; Payment of Purchase Price. Moneys delivered to the Trustee on a Purchase Date shall be applied at or before 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Purchase Date to pay the Purchase Price of Purchased Bonds of the applicable Series in immediately available funds as follows in the indicated order of application and, to the extent not so applied on such date, shall be held in the separate and segregated Accounts of the Bond Purchase Fund for the benefit of the Owners of the Purchased Bonds which were to have been purchased:
FIRST: Moneys deposited in the Remarketing Proceeds Account for the Bonds of the applicable Series; and
SECOND: Moneys deposited in the Issuer Purchase Account for the Bonds of the applicable Series.
Any moneys held by the Trustee in the Issuer Purchase Account remaining unclaimed by the Owners of the Purchased Bonds which were to have been purchased for two years after the respective Purchase Date for such Bonds shall be paid to the Issuer, upon a request in a Written Direction of the Issuer against written receipt therefor. The Owners of Purchased Bonds who have not yet claimed money in respect of such Bonds shall thereafter be entitled to look only to the Trustee, to the extent it shall hold moneys on deposit in the Bond Purchase Fund, or the Issuer to the extent moneys have been transferred in accordance with this Section 4.15(e). The Trustee shall Item 2
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68 have no obligation to advance its own funds to fund the Bond Purchase Fund or otherwise pay the Purchase Price on any Bonds.
(f) Delivery of Purchased Bonds.
(i) The Remarketing Agent shall give telephonic notice, promptly confirmed by a written notice, by Electronic Means, to the Trustee on each date on which Bonds shall have been purchased pursuant to Section 4.11, Section 4.12, Section 4.13, or Section 4.14, specifying the principal amount of such Bonds, if any, sold by it and a list of such purchasers showing the names and Authorized Denominations in which such Bonds shall be registered, and the addresses and social security or taxpayer identification numbers of such purchasers. By 12:30 p.m., New York City time, on the Purchase Date, a principal amount of Bonds equal to the amount of Purchased Bonds purchased with moneys from the Remarketing Proceeds Account shall be made available by the Trustee to the Remarketing Agent against payment therefor in immediately available funds. (ii) A principal amount of Bonds equal to the amount of Purchased Bonds purchased from moneys on deposit in the Issuer Purchase Account shall be delivered on the day of such purchase by the Trustee to or as directed by the Issuer. The Trustee shall register such Bonds in the name of the Issuer or as otherwise directed by the Issuer.
Section 4.16. Notice of Mandatory Tender for Purchase. In connection with any mandatory tender for purchase of Bonds in accordance with Section 4.12, Section 4.13 or Section 4.14, the Trustee shall give the notice (which in the case of a mandatory tender pursuant to Section 4.14 shall be given as a part of the notice given pursuant to Section 2.06(c), Section 2.07(c), Section 2.08(c), Section 2.09(c) or Section 2.14(c)) stating: (a) that the Purchase Price of any Bond so subject to mandatory tender for purchase shall be payable only upon surrender of such Bond to the Trustee at the office specified in such notice, accompanied by an instrument of transfer thereof in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed in blank by the Owner thereof or by the Owner’s duly authorized attorney, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank, trust company or member firm of the New York Stock Exchange; (b) that all Bonds so subject to mandatory tender for purchase shall be purchased on the Mandatory Purchase Date, unless (i) a Failed Remarketing shall have occurred prior to such Mandatory Purchase Date, in which case such Bonds shall be redeemed rather than purchased on such Mandatory Purchase Date, or (ii) such Bonds shall have otherwise been redeemed on or prior to, or are not Outstanding as of, such Mandatory Purchase Date; and (c) that in the event that any Owner of a Bond so subject to mandatory tender for purchase shall not surrender such Bond to the Trustee for purchase on such Mandatory Purchase Date, then such Bond shall be deemed to be an Undelivered Bond, and that no interest shall accrue thereon on and after such Mandatory Purchase Date and that the Owner thereof shall have no rights under this Indenture other than to receive payment of the Purchase Price thereof. Any such notice of a mandatory tender of Bonds pursuant to Section 4.12, Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 shall be given no less than thirty (30) days prior to the applicable Mandatory Purchase Date, and the Trustee shall give a conditional notice of extraordinary redemption pursuant to Section 4.04 no later than the applicable deadlines set forth in that section to provide for the extraordinary redemption of the Bonds if a Failed Remarketing occurs prior to the Mandatory Purchase Date. No later than five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which such conditional notice of extraordinary redemption is required to be given by the Trustee pursuant to Item 2
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69 Section 4.4, the Issuer shall direct the Trustee to send such conditional redemption notice pursuant to a Written Direction in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, which Written Direction shall include the applicable Redemption Date and method(s) for calculating the Redemption Price, to be followed by notice of the Redemption Price, as provided in Exhibit C.
Section 4.17. Irrevocable Notice Deemed to Be Tender of Bond; Undelivered Bonds Deemed Purchased on Mandatory Purchase Date. (a) The giving of notice by an Owner of a Bond bearing interest at a Daily Interest Rate or a Weekly Interest Rate pursuant to Section 4.11 shall constitute the irrevocable tender for purchase of each such Bond with respect to which such notice shall have been given, regardless of whether such Bond is delivered to the Trustee for purchase on the relevant Purchase Date as provided in this Article IV. (b) The Trustee may refuse to accept delivery of any Purchased Bonds for which a proper instrument of transfer, with a satisfactory guaranty of signature, has not been provided; such refusal, however, shall not affect the validity of the purchase of such Bond as herein described. For purposes of this Article IV, the Trustee for the Bonds shall determine timely and proper delivery of Purchased Bonds and the proper endorsement of such Bonds. Such determination shall be binding on the Owners of such Bonds, the Issuer and the Remarketing Agent, absent manifest error. If any Owner of a Bond who shall have given notice of tender of purchase pursuant to Section 4.11 or any Owner of a Bond subject to mandatory tender for purchase pursuant to Section 4.12, Section 4.13 or Section 4.14 shall fail to deliver such Bond to the Trustee at the place and on the applicable date and at the time specified, or shall fail to deliver such Bond properly endorsed, such Bond shall constitute an Undelivered Bond. If funds in the amount of the Purchase Price of the Undelivered Bond are available for payment to the Owner thereof on the date and at the time specified, from and after the date and time of that required delivery, (i) the Undelivered Bond shall be deemed to be purchased and shall no longer be deemed to be Outstanding under this Indenture; (ii) interest shall no longer accrue thereon; and (iii) funds in the amount of the Purchase Price of the Undelivered Bond shall be held by the Trustee for such Bond for the benefit of the Owner thereof, to be paid on delivery (and proper endorsement) of the Undelivered Bond to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office. Any funds held by the Trustee as described in clause (iii) of the preceding sentence shall be held uninvested.
Section 4.18. Remarketing of Bonds; Notice of Interest Rates. (a) Upon a mandatory tender or notice of the tender for purchase of Bonds, the Remarketing Agent shall offer for sale and use its best efforts to sell such Bonds subject to conditions in the Remarketing Agreement, any such sale to be made on the Purchase Date in accordance with this Article IV at a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, thereon to the Purchase Date. The Remarketing Agent agrees that it shall not sell any Bonds purchased pursuant to this Article IV to the Issuer or a Project Participant, or to any Person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Issuer or a Project Participant. (b) The Remarketing Agent shall determine the rate of interest to be borne by the Bonds bearing interest at a Daily Interest Rate, Weekly Interest Rate, CP Interest Term Rates or a Term Rate and the CP Interest Terms for each Bond during each Commercial Paper Interest Rate Period, and the applicable Calculation Agent shall determine the rate of interest to be borne by each Series of Bonds bearing interest at an Index Rate, all as provided in Article II, and shall furnish to the Item 2
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70 Trustee and to the Issuer upon request, in a timely fashion by Electronic Means, each rate of interest and CP Interest Term so determined.
(c) Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, if there shall have occurred and is continuing an Event of Default, there shall be no remarketing of Bonds tendered or deemed tendered for purchase.
Section 4.19. The Remarketing Agent. (a) The Remarketing Agent shall be authorized by law to perform all the duties imposed upon it pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement. The Remarketing Agent or any successor shall signify its acceptance of the duties and obligations imposed upon it pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement by an agreement under which the Remarketing Agent will agree to:
(i) determine the interest rates applicable to the Bonds of the applicable Series and give written notice to the Trustee of such rates and periods in accordance with Article II;
(ii) keep such books and records as shall be consistent with prudent industry practice; and
(iii) use its best efforts to remarket Bonds in accordance with the Remarketing Agreement.
(b) The Remarketing Agent shall hold all amounts received by it in accordance with any remarketing of Bonds in trust only for the benefit of the Owners of tendered Bonds and shall not commingle such amounts with any other moneys.
Section 4.20. Qualifications of Remarketing Agent; Resignation; Removal. (a) Each Remarketing Agent shall be a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or subject to supervision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, having a combined capital stock, surplus and undivided profits of at least $50,000,000 and be authorized by law to perform all the duties imposed upon it by this Indenture. Any successor Remarketing Agent shall have senior unsecured long term debt which shall be rated by each Rating Agency. (b) A Remarketing Agent may at any time resign and be discharged of the duties and obligations created by the Remarketing Agreement by giving written notice to the Trustee and the Issuer. A Remarketing Agent may be removed at the direction of the Issuer at any time on 30 days’ prior written notice, in a Written Direction of the Issuer, filed with such Remarketing Agent for the related Series of Bonds and the Trustee. No such resignation or removal shall be effective until a successor has been appointed and has accepted such duties.
Section 4.21. Successor Remarketing Agents. (a) Any corporation, association, partnership or firm which succeeds to the business of the Remarketing Agent as a whole or substantially as a whole, whether by sale, merger, consolidation or otherwise, shall thereby become vested with all the property, rights and powers of such Remarketing Agent hereunder.
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71 (b) In the event that the Remarketing Agent has given written notice of resignation or has been notified of its impending removal in accordance with Section 4.20(b), the Issuer shall appoint a successor Remarketing Agent.
(c) In the event that the property or affairs of the Remarketing Agent shall be taken under control of any state or federal court or administrative body because of bankruptcy or insolvency, or for any other reason, and the Issuer shall not have appointed its successor, the Issuer shall appoint a successor and, if no appointment is made within 30 days, the Trustee shall apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for such appointment.
Section 4.22. Tender Agent. The Trustee shall serve as the tender agent for any Series of Bonds for which optional or mandatory tender for purchase is applicable under this Article IV, and as tender agent it and each successor Trustee appointed in accordance with this Indenture shall:
(a) hold all Bonds delivered to it for purchase hereunder in trust for the exclusive benefit of the respective Owners that shall have so delivered such Bonds until moneys representing the Purchase Price of such Bonds shall have been delivered to or for the account of or to the order of such Owners;
(b) hold all moneys delivered to it hereunder for the purchase of Bonds in trust for the exclusive benefit of the Person that shall have so delivered such moneys until the Bonds purchased with such moneys shall have been delivered to it for the account of such Person and, thereafter, for the benefit of the Owners tendering such Bonds; and (c) keep such books and records as shall be consistent with prudent industry practice and make such books and records available for inspection at all times during regular business hours (upon reasonable prior written notice of inspection) by the Issuer and the Remarketing Agent for such Series of Bonds.
ARTICLE V
ESTABLISHMENT OF FUNDS AND APPLICATION THEREOF
Section 5.01. Pledge Effected by This Indenture. (a) The Bonds and any Interest Rate Swap are limited obligations of the Issuer payable solely from and secured as to the payment of the principal and Redemption Price thereof, and interest thereon, in accordance with their terms and the provisions of this Indenture solely by, the Trust Estate. Pursuant to the Granting Clauses of this Indenture, the Trust Estate has been conveyed, assigned and pledged to the payment of the principal and Redemption Price of and interest on the Bonds and any Interest Rate Swap Payments in accordance with their terms, and any other senior, parity and subordinate obligations of the Issuer secured by the lien of this Indenture, subject to (i) the pledge of and lien on the Commodity Swap Payment Fund and the amounts and investments on deposit therein in favor of the Commodity Swap Counterparties, and (ii) the provisions of this Indenture permitting the application thereof for the purposes and on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture.
The Trust Estate thereby pledged and assigned shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any further physical delivery thereof or other further act, and the lien of such pledge shall be a first lien and shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind Item 2
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72 in tort, contract or otherwise against the Issuer, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof.
(b) None of the Bonds, any Interest Rate Swap or the Commodity Swaps constitute a debt or liability of the State or of any political subdivision thereof, other than as limited obligations of the Issuer, and the Issuer shall not be obligated to pay the principal or Redemption Price of, or interest on, the Bonds, any Interest Rate Swap Payments or the Commodity Swap Payments except from the funds provided therefor under this Indenture. Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including the Issuer, or of any Project Participant is pledged to the payment of the principal or Redemption Price of and interest on the Bonds, any Interest Rate Swap Payments or the Commodity Swap Payments. The issuance of the Bonds and the execution and delivery of any Interest Rate Swap and the Commodity Swaps shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the State or any political subdivision thereof to levy or to pledge any form of taxation or to make any appropriation for their payment. The Issuer has no taxing power.
(c) Nothing contained in this Indenture shall be construed to prevent the Issuer from acquiring, constructing or financing, through the issuance of its bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, any facilities or supplies of Energy other than the Clean Energy Project; provided that such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall not be payable out of or secured by the Trust Estate or any portion thereof, and neither the cost of such facilities or supplies of Energy nor any expenditure in connection therewith or with the financing thereof shall be payable from the Trust Estate or any portion thereof.
Section 5.02. Establishment of Funds and Accounts. (a) The following Funds and Accounts are hereby established, each of which shall be held by the Trustee except as indicated below:
(i) Project Fund,
(ii) Revenue Fund,
(iii) Operating Fund,
(iv) Debt Service Fund, consisting of the Debt Service Account (and within such Account, a Capitalized Interest Subaccount) and the Redemption Account, (v) Commodity Swap Payment Fund,
(vi) General Reserve Fund,
(vii) Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund, consisting of a Remediation Account, (viii) Assignment Payment Fund,
(ix) Bond Purchase Fund established pursuant to Section 4.15, consisting of the Issuer Purchase Account and the Remarketing Proceeds Account; and Item 2
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73 (x) Administrative Fee Fund.
(b) Within the Funds and Accounts established hereunder and held by the Trustee, the Trustee may create additional Accounts in any Fund or subaccounts in any Accounts as may facilitate the administration of this Indenture. The Issuer may, by Supplemental Indenture, with the prior written approval of the Trustee, establish one or more additional accounts or subaccounts.
By Supplemental Indenture, the Issuer may also (i) establish custodial accounts to be held by the Trustee as custodian to receive Revenues paid by the Project Participants under the Power Supply Contracts, and (ii) provide for the application of such amounts for transfer to the Revenue Fund and for such other purposes as may be specified therein.
Section 5.03. Project Fund. (a) There shall be paid into the Project Fund proceeds of the Bonds in the amount specified by Written Request of the Issuer, and there may be paid into the Project Fund, at the option of the Issuer, any moneys received for or in connection with the Clean Energy Project by the Issuer from any other source, unless required to be otherwise applied as provided by this Indenture. Upon delivery of the Bonds, the Trustee shall immediately transfer from the Project Fund into the Capitalized Interest Subaccount of the Debt Service Account an amount, specified by Written Request of the Issuer, representing capitalized interest on the Bonds to the date set forth in such Written Request. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.03, amounts in the Project Fund shall be applied by the Issuer to pay the Cost of Acquisition and any capitalized interest on the Series 2025[_] Bonds.
(b) Before any payment is made by the Trustee from the Project Fund, the Issuer shall file with the Trustee a Written Request of the Issuer, showing with respect to each payment to be made, the name of the Person to whom payment is due and the amount to be paid, and stating that the obligation to be paid was incurred and is a proper charge against the Project Fund. To the extent that the Written Request includes amounts to be paid pursuant to the Energy Purchase Agreement, copies of the invoices or requests for direct payments submitted under the Energy Purchase Agreement shall be attached to the Written Request. Each such Written Request shall be sufficient evidence to the Trustee: (i) that obligations in the stated amounts have been incurred by the Issuer and that each item thereof is a proper charge against the Project Fund; and (ii) that there has not been filed with or served upon Issuer notice of any lien, right to lien or attachment upon, or claim affecting the right to receive payment of, any of the moneys payable to any of the Persons named in such Written Request which has not been released or will not be released simultaneously with the payment of such obligation other than materialmen’s or mechanics’ liens accruing by mere operation of law.
(c) Upon receipt of each such Written Request, the Trustee shall pay the amounts set forth therein as directed by the terms thereof from the applicable Account in accordance with and subject to the applicable terms of this Section 5.03.
(d) Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section, to the extent that other moneys are not available therefor, amounts in Project Fund shall be applied to the payment of principal of and interest on Bonds when due.
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74 (e) Upon Written Direction of the Issuer, but not earlier than six months after the date of delivery of the Bonds, the Trustee shall transfer to the Revenue Fund any amounts remaining on deposit in Project Fund.
Section 5.04. Revenues and Revenue Fund; Other Amounts. (a) All Revenues shall be deposited promptly by the Trustee upon receipt thereof into the Revenue Fund; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, if any amounts are received from a Project Participant for which Outstanding Sold Receivables exist, as identified in a written notice from the Issuer to the Trustee, the Trustee shall promptly cause any such receipts to be paid to the Energy Supplier to the extent of such Outstanding Sold Receivables without setoff of any kind in accordance with Section 2.7 of the Receivables Purchase Provisions and any remaining amounts received from such Project Participant shall be deposited into the Revenue Fund.
(b) In the event that any Specified Project Participant fails to pay the amount due under its applicable Power Supply Contract, the Trustee shall perform the following actions on behalf of the Issuer under Section 2.1 of the Receivables Purchase Provisions: (i) provide a preliminary notice by email to the Issuer and the Energy Supplier that a Specified Project Participant will fail to make a payment as soon as practicable after becoming aware that a payment default will occur and in any event no later than the end of the calendar day on which the relevant payment default occurs, and (ii) prepare and deliver to the Energy Supplier a Put Option Notice by 12:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day following any such payment default. On the twenty-fourth day of the Month in which such Put Option Notice was delivered (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day following the twenty-fourth day of such Month), the Trustee shall deliver to the Energy Supplier the bill of sale and certificates required by Section 2.3(a) of the Receivables Purchase Provisions. The Trustee is hereby authorized to sell the Put Receivables then owed by the Specified Project Participants under the Power Supply Contracts pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions and to take all actions on its part necessary in connection therewith. All amounts received by the Trustee pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions in respect of Put Receivables shall be deposited in the Revenue Fund for application pursuant to Section 5.05.
(c) Upon receipt of the preliminary notice from the Trustee pursuant to (b)(i) above, the Issuer shall:
(i) in consultation with the Energy Supplier, determine the amount of the Net Participant Shortfall Amount, if any, resulting from such failure to pay; and (ii) give prompt written notice of the amounts of such Net Participant Shortfall Amount, if any, and the amount of such nonpayment and the resulting Net Participant Shortfall Amount, to the Trustee, the Energy Supplier and the Commodity Swap Counterparties.
(d) The following amounts, which are payable to the Trustee but do not constitute Revenues, shall be applied by the Trustee as follows:
(i) any Termination Payment shall be deposited directly into the Redemption Account of the Debt Service Fund as provided in Section 5.08; Item 2
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75 (ii) any Assignment Payment shall be deposited directly into the Assignment Payment Fund as provided in Section 5.12;
(iii) [Reserved];
(iv) amounts representing the Project Administration Fee, together with any amounts paid by the Project Participant under the Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement, shall be paid as received to Issuer into the Administrative Fee Fund;
(v) any Interest Rate Swap Receipts shall be deposited directly into the Debt Service Account as provided in Section 2.13;
(vi) any amounts required by Section 5.11 to be deposited into the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund shall be deposited directly therein; and (vii) Ledger Event Payments shall be deposited directly into the Debt Service Account as provided in Section 2.02.
Section 5.05. Payments from Revenue Fund. (a) In each Month during which there is a deposit of Revenues into the Revenue Fund (but in no case later than the respective dates set forth below), the Trustee shall apply the amounts on deposit in the Revenue Fund, to the extent available, for credit or deposit to the Funds and Accounts indicated below, in the amounts described below (such application to be made in such a manner so as to assure good funds are available on the respective dates set forth below) in the following order of priority:
(i) [Reserved.];
(ii) To the Operating Fund, not later than the twenty-fifth day of such Month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), the amount, if any, required so that the balance therein shall equal the amount necessary for the payment of Operating Expenses coming due for such Month;
(iii) Subject to the provisos below, to the Debt Service Fund, not later than the twenty-fifth day of such Month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) for the credit to the Debt Service Account, an amount equal to the greater of (A) the Scheduled Debt Service Deposit, as set forth in Schedule II hereto, or (B) the amount necessary to cause an amount equal to the cumulative unpaid Scheduled Debt Service Deposits due through such date to be on deposit therein (without credit for undisbursed Interest Rate Swap Receipts, if any, on deposit therein); (iv) To the Commodity Swap Payment Fund, on or before the twenty-fifth day of such Month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), the amount required so that the balance therein shall equal the Commodity Swap Payments due for such Month; and
(v) To the Energy Supplier, not later than the last Business Day of such Month, the amount, if any, required for the repurchase of Put Receivables and the payment of Item 2
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76 interest on all Put Receivables sold to the Energy Supplier pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions;
provided, however, that if a Project Participant’s payment failure results in a Net Participant Shortfall Amount for such Month, the intent is that such payment failure be allocated between the amounts that otherwise would have been deposited to the Debt Service Fund and the Commodity Swap Payment Fund. Therefore, for any Month in which a Net Participant Shortfall Amount exists, the Trustee shall reduce the amount transferred under clause (iii) above to the extent necessary such that the amount available for transfer under clause (iv) above is not less than (A) the amount that would be required to fully fund the Commodity Swap Payments due for such Month, minus (B) the sum of all Net Participant Shortfall Amounts for such Month; and provided further, the amount required to be transferred to the Debt Service Account pursuant to clause (iii) above shall be reduced by the amount of investment earnings scheduled to be deposited into the Debt Service Account on or before the last Business Day of such Month. (b) If, after a scheduled monthly deposit to the Debt Service Account, the balance therein is below the cumulative Scheduled Debt Service Deposits for such month as specified on Schedule II, the Trustee shall immediately notify the Issuer of such deficiency and the Trustee shall (i) if the Issuer has not previously done so, cause the Issuer to suspend all deliveries of all quantities of Energy under the Power Supply Contracts to the Project Participant that is in default thereunder, and (ii) promptly give notice to the Energy Supplier to follow the Remarketing Provisions.
(c) On each [__] 1, beginning [__] 1, 202[__], after (i) the deposit of Revenues into the Revenue Fund, and (ii) making such transfers, credits and deposits as required by paragraph (a) above, the Trustee shall credit to the General Reserve Fund the remaining balance in the Revenue Fund.
(d) So long as there shall be held in the Debt Service Fund an amount sufficient to pay in full all Outstanding Bonds and Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any, in accordance with their terms (including principal or applicable Sinking Fund Installments and interest thereon), no transfers shall be required to be made to the Debt Service Fund.
Section 5.06. Operating Fund. (a) Amounts credited to the Operating Fund shall be applied from time to time by the Trustee to the payment of (i) first, Rebate Payments, and (ii) second, any other Operating Expenses then due and payable. (b) Amounts credited to the Operating Fund that the Trustee, on the last Business Day of each Month, determines to be in excess of the requirements of such Fund for such Month, shall be applied to make up any deficiencies in the Debt Service Account. Any balance of such excess not required to be so applied shall be transferred to the Revenue Fund for application in accordance with Section 5.05(a).
Section 5.07. Debt Service Fund—Debt Service Account. (a) The amounts deposited into the Debt Service Account pursuant to Section 5.05(a)(iii) shall be held in such Account and applied to the payment of the Debt Service and any Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any, payable on each Bond Payment Date; provided that, for the purposes of computing the amount to be deposited in Item 2
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77 such Account, there shall be excluded from the required deposit the amount, if any, on deposit in the Capitalized Interest Subaccount or set aside in the Debt Service Account from the proceeds of Bonds (including amounts, if any, transferred thereto from the Project Fund) for the payment of interest on the Bonds. Amounts in the Capitalized Interest Subaccount shall be applied to Debt Service prior to other monies held within the Debt Service Account. (b) The Trustee shall pay out of the Debt Service Account to the Paying Agent: (i) on or before each Interest Payment Date, the amount required for the interest on the Bonds payable on such date; (ii) on or before each Bond Payment Date, the Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any, then due, (iii) on or before the Bond Payment Date on which a Principal Installment is due, the amount required for the Principal Installment payable on such date; and (iv) on or before any redemption date, the amount required for the payment of the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on such Bonds then to be redeemed; provided, however, that if with respect to any Bonds or portions thereof the amounts due on any such Bond Payment Date and/or redemption date are intended to be paid from a source other than amounts in the Debt Service Account prior to any application of amounts in the Debt Service Account to such payments, then the Trustee (after Written Notice from the Issuer to the Trustee that the Issuer intends to make payments from a source other than amounts in the Debt Service Account) shall not pay any such amounts to the Paying Agent until such amounts have failed to be provided from such other source at the time required and if any such amounts due are paid from such other source the Trustee shall apply the amounts in the Debt Service Account to provide reimbursement for such payment from such other source as provided in the agreement governing reimbursement of such amounts to such other source. Such amounts shall be applied by the Paying Agent on and after the due dates thereof. The Trustee shall also pay out of the Debt Service Account the accrued interest included in the purchase price of Bonds purchased for retirement.
(c) Amounts accumulated in the Debt Service Account with respect to any Sinking Fund Installment (together with amounts accumulated therein with respect to interest on the Bonds for which such Sinking Fund Installment was established) shall, if so directed by the Issuer in a Written Request delivered not less than thirty (30) days before the due date of such Sinking Fund Installment, be applied by the Trustee to (i) the purchase of Bonds of the Series, maturity and tenor for which such Sinking Fund Installment was established, (ii) the redemption at the applicable sinking fund Redemption Price of such Bonds, if then redeemable by their terms, or (iii) any combination of (i) and (ii). All purchases and redemptions of any Bonds pursuant to this subsection (c) shall be made at prices not exceeding the applicable sinking fund Redemption Price of such Bonds plus accrued interest, and such purchases shall be made in such manner as the Issuer shall direct the Trustee in writing. The applicable sinking fund Redemption Price (or principal amount of maturing Bonds) of any Bonds so purchased or redeemed shall be deemed to constitute part of the Debt Service Account until such Sinking Fund Installment date, for the purpose of calculating the amount of such Account. As soon as practicable after the thirtieth (30th) day preceding the due date of any such Sinking Fund Installment, the Trustee shall proceed to call for the redemption on such due date, by giving notice as required by this Indenture, Bonds of the Series, maturity and tenor for which such Sinking Fund Installment was established (except in the case of Bonds maturing on a Sinking Fund Installment date) in such amount as shall be necessary to complete the retirement of the unsatisfied balance of such Sinking Fund Installment after making allowance for any Bonds purchased or redeemed pursuant to Section 5.10 which the Issuer has directed the Trustee in writing to apply as a credit against such Sinking Fund Installment as Item 2
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78 provided in Section 5.10(c). The Trustee shall pay out of the Debt Service Account to the Paying Agent, on or before such redemption date or maturity date, as applicable, the amount required for the redemption of the Bonds so called for redemption (or for the payment of such Bonds then maturing), and such amount shall be applied by such Paying Agents to such redemption or payment, as applicable. All expenses in connection with the purchase or redemption of Bonds shall be paid by the Issuer in such manner as the Issuer shall direct the Trustee in writing from the Operating Fund.
All Bonds paid or redeemed, either at or before maturity, shall be delivered to the Trustee at its designated corporate trust office when such payment or redemption is made, and such Bonds, together with all Bonds purchased or redeemed pursuant to Section 5.10 that have been delivered to the Trustee for application as a credit against Sinking Fund Installments and all Bonds purchased by the Trustee pursuant to this Section 5.07, shall thereupon be promptly cancelled (or deemed to have been cancelled).
(d) Amounts accumulated in the Debt Service Account with respect to any principal amount of Bonds due on a certain future date for which no Sinking Fund Installments have been established (together with amounts accumulated therein with respect to interest on such Bonds) shall, upon the reasonable prior Written Direction of the Issuer, be applied by the Trustee on or prior to the due date thereof, to (i) the purchase of such Bonds or (ii) the redemption at the principal amount of such Bonds, if then redeemable by their terms. All purchases and redemptions of any Bonds pursuant to this subsection (d) shall be made at prices not exceeding the principal amount of such Bonds plus accrued interest, and such purchases and redemptions shall be made in such manner as the Issuer shall determine. The principal amount of any Bonds so purchased or redeemed shall be deemed to constitute part of the Debt Service Account until such due date, for the purpose of calculating the amount of such Account.
(e) The amount deposited in the Debt Service Account on the Issue Date of any Series of Bonds from the proceeds thereof shall be set aside and applied to the payment of interest on such Series of Bonds and related Interest Rate Swap Payments, if any. (f) In the event of the refunding or defeasance of any Bonds, the Trustee shall, if directed by the Issuer in writing, withdraw from the Debt Service Account all, or any portion of, the amounts accumulated therein with respect to Debt Service on the Bonds being refunded or defeased and deposit such amounts with the Trustee to be held for the payment of the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest on the Bonds being refunded or defeased; provided that such withdrawal shall not be made unless immediately thereafter Bonds being refunded or defeased shall be deemed to have been paid pursuant to Section 12.01(b). In the event of such refunding or defeasance, the Issuer may direct the Trustee to withdraw from the Debt Service Account all, or any portion of, the amounts accumulated therein with respect to Debt Service on the Bonds being refunded or defeased and deposit such amounts in any Fund or Account hereunder; provided, however, that such withdrawal shall not be made unless the Bonds being defeased shall be deemed to have been paid pursuant to Section 12.01(b) and provided, further, that, at the time of such withdrawal, there shall exist no deficiency in any Fund or Account held hereunder.
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79 (g) Any amount remaining in the Debt Service Account, to the extent not required to be retained therein for purposes of making future payments, shall be deposited in the Revenue Fund.
Section 5.08. Debt Service Fund–Redemption Account. (a) In the event of an early termination of the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Issuer shall direct the Energy Supplier to pay the Termination Payment directly to the Trustee for the account of the Issuer. The Trustee shall deposit the Termination Payment into the Redemption Account. Amounts deposited into the Redemption Account shall be applied by the Trustee to the redemption of Outstanding Bonds pursuant to Section 4.01.
(b) Any amounts remaining on deposit in the Redemption Account following the redemption and payment of all Outstanding Bonds shall be applied by the Trustee first to pay any Swap Payment Deficiency, second to repurchase any Put Receivables owned by the Energy Supplier, and third, upon Written Direction of the Issuer to the Trustee, shall be transferred to the Revenue Fund.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, no Extraordinary Expenses shall be paid from the Redemption Account.
Section 5.09. Commodity Swap Payment Fund. (a) Amounts credited to the Commodity Swap Payment Fund shall be applied from time to time by the Trustee to the payment of the Commodity Swap Payments when due.
(b) Any amount remaining in the Commodity Swap Payment Fund following the payment of the Commodity Swap Payment due in any Month and prior to any deposit therein for the following Month shall be transferred to the Revenue Fund for application in accordance with Section 5.05(a).
Section 5.10. General Reserve Fund. (a) The Trustee shall apply moneys on deposit in the General Reserve Fund in the following amounts and in the following order of priority: first, for deposit into the Debt Service Account, the amount necessary (or all of the moneys in the General Reserve Fund if less than the amount necessary) to make up any deficiencies in the deposits to such Account required by Section 5.05(a)(iii); second, for deposit into the Commodity Swap Payment Fund, the amount necessary to cause the balance therein to equal a Commodity Swap Payment that is then due; and third for deposit into the Operating Fund, the amount necessary for the payment of any Operating Expenses then due and payable and for which other funds are not available under this Indenture.
(b) Amounts on deposit in the General Reserve Fund not required to meet a deficiency or to make a deposit as provided in subsection (a) above shall be applied by the Trustee upon the Written Request of the Issuer to the following in the order listed below:
(i) payment of Extraordinary Expenses;
(ii) payment of any fees owed pursuant to any Qualified Investments; Item 2
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80 (iii) the repurchase of Put Receivables and the payment of interest on all receivables sold to the Energy Supplier pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Provisions; (iv) annual refunds to the Project Participant pursuant to the Power Supply Contract;
(v) the purchase or redemption of Bonds and expenses in connection with the purchase or redemption of such Bonds or any reserves which the Issuer determines shall be required for such purposes; and
(vi) any other lawful purpose of the Issuer under the Act; provided, however, that, subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, amounts credited to the General Reserve Fund and required by this Indenture to be applied to the purchase or redemption of Bonds shall be applied to such purpose. (c) If at any time Bonds of any Series, maturity and tenor for which Sinking Fund Installments shall have been established are (i) purchased or redeemed other than pursuant to Section 5.07(d) or (ii) deemed to have been paid pursuant to Section 12.01(b) and, with respect to such Bonds which have been deemed paid, irrevocable written instructions have been given by the Issuer to the Trustee to redeem or purchase the same on or prior to the due date of the Sinking Fund Installment to be credited under this subsection (c), the Issuer may from time to time and at any time by Written Direction to the Trustee specify the portion, if any, of such Bonds so purchased, redeemed or deemed to have been paid and not previously applied as a credit against any Sinking Fund Installment which are to be credited against future Sinking Fund Installments.
Such direction shall specify the amounts of such Bonds to be applied as a credit against each Sinking Fund Installment or Installments and the particular Sinking Fund Installment or Installments against which such Bonds are to be applied as a credit; provided, however, that none of such Bonds may be applied as a credit against a Sinking Fund Installment to become due less than thirty (30) days after such written notice is delivered to the Trustee. All such Bonds to be applied as a credit shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation on or prior to the due date of the Sinking Fund Installment against which they are being applied as a credit. The portion of any such Sinking Fund Installment remaining after the deduction of any such amounts credited toward the same (or the original amount of any such Sinking Fund Installment if no such amounts shall have been credited toward the same) shall constitute the unsatisfied balance of such Sinking Fund Installment for the purpose of calculation of Sinking Fund Installments due on a future date.
Section 5.11. Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund. There shall be paid by the Trustee into the Remediation Account of the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund, and within such Remediation Account the subaccount applicable to each Project Participant, the amounts, as directed in a Written Direction of the Issuer, specified in Section 5(e)(i) of the Remarketing Provisions. In the case of a Remediation Remarketing (as defined in the Remarketing Provisions) pursuant to Section 8 of the Remarketing Provisions, amounts shall be released from the applicable subaccount of the Remediation Account upon such remarketing and applied pursuant to a Written Direction of the Issuer as follows: (a) if the proceeds received by the Trustee from the remarketing equal or exceed the Remediation Remarketing Purchase Price, the portion of the applicable subaccount of the Remediation Account allocable to such remarketing shall be transferred to the General Reserve Item 2
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81 Fund, and (b) if the proceeds received by the Trustee from the remarketing are less than the Remediation Remarketing Purchase Price, then (x) the portion of the applicable subaccount of the Remediation Account of the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund allocable to such remarketing shall be used to make a payment to the Energy Supplier in an amount equal to the excess of such Remediation Remarketing Purchase Price over such proceeds received by the Issuer from the remarketing, and (y) any remaining amounts allocable to such remarketing shall be transferred to the General Reserve Fund. For purposes of this Section 5.11(a), the portion of the applicable subaccount of the Remediation Account of the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund specified in writing by the Issuer to the Trustee as the amount allocable to a remarketing shall consist of the product of (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the purchase price of the Energy to be remarketed, and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount previously received by the Issuer from the sale of such Energy in Non-Private Business Sales (as defined in the Remarketing Provisions) or Private Business Sales (as defined in the Remarketing Provisions) that, as of the time of the remarketing, has not been remediated in accordance with Section 8 of the Remarketing Provisions, multiplied by (ii) the balance of the applicable subaccount of the Remediation Account of the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund at the time of the remarketing.
Section 5.12. Assignment Payment Fund. In connection with the issuance of Refunding Bonds, any Assignment Payment received from the Energy Supplier (or the Master Custodian on its behalf) shall be deposited into the Assignment Payment Fund to be transferred to the replacement energy supplier, provided, however, that if the existing Bonds have not been redeemed or defeased on or before the Mandatory Purchase Date, in whole, by the Refunding Bonds, all or a portion of the Assignment Payment shall be transferred to the Trustee for deposit as directed by the Issuer in writing to the Redemption Account in Section 5.08, along with the proceeds of the Refunding Bonds, in order to redeem all of the Outstanding Bonds.
Section 5.13. Purchases of Bonds. Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.07, any purchase of Bonds (or portions thereof) by or at the direction of the Issuer pursuant to this Indenture may be made with or without tenders of Bonds and at either public or private sale, in such manner as the Issuer may determine.
Section 5.14. Administrative Fee Fund. All Project Administration Fees, together with any amounts paid by the Project Participant pursuant to the Prepaid Clean Energy Project Administration Agreement, shall be deposited by the Trustee into the Administrative Fee Fund.
The Trustee shall apply amounts on deposit in the Administrative Fee Fund to pay Operating Expenses promptly upon receipt of a Written Request of the Issuer directing such payment. In the event amounts on deposit in the Administrative Fee Fund are insufficient to make any payments directed in the Written Request of the Issuer, the Trustee shall promptly notify each Project Participant, at its respective address shown on Schedule I attached hereto, of the fact and amount of such deficiency.
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82 ARTICLE VI
DEPOSITORIES OF MONEYS, SECURITY FOR DEPOSITS
AND INVESTMENT OF FUNDS
Section 6.01. Depositories. (a) All moneys held by the Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture shall constitute trust funds and the Trustee may deposit such moneys with one or more Depositories in trust for the parties secured hereunder. All moneys deposited under the provisions of this Indenture with the Trustee or any Depository shall be held in trust and applied only in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to rely, without verification, on any certificate of a bank, trust company, national banking association or other entity that certifies that it meets the requirements for being a Depository of moneys hereunder and shall not be responsible for any monitoring of such requirements after the initial deposit of any moneys pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture. (b) Each Depository shall be a bank or trust company organized under the laws of any state of the United States or a national banking association having capital stock, surplus and undivided earnings of $50,000,000 or more, and willing and able to accept the office on reasonable and customary terms and authorized by law to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to rely, without verification, on any certificate of a bank, trust company, national banking association or other entity that certifies that it meets the requirements for being a Depository of moneys hereunder and shall not be responsible for any monitoring of such requirements after the initial deposit of any moneys pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 6.02. Deposits. (a) All Revenues and moneys held by any Depository under this Indenture may be placed on demand or time deposit, if and as directed by the Issuer in writing, provided that such deposits shall permit the moneys so held to be available for use at the time when needed. Any such deposit may be made in the commercial banking department of any Fiduciary, which may honor checks and drafts on such deposit with the same force and effect as if it were not such Fiduciary. All moneys held by any Fiduciary, as such, may be deposited by such Fiduciary in its banking department on demand or, if and to the extent directed by the Issuer in writing and acceptable to such Fiduciary, on time deposit, provided that such moneys on deposit be available for use at the time when needed. Such Fiduciary shall allow and credit on such moneys such interest, if any, as it customarily allows upon similar funds of similar size and under similar conditions or as required by law.
(b) All moneys held under this Indenture by the Trustee, the Issuer or any Depository shall be held in such manner as may then be required by applicable federal or State laws and regulations and applicable state laws and regulations of the state in which such Depository is located, regarding security for, or granting a preference in the case of, the deposit of public or trust funds or, in the absence of such laws and regulations, shall be either (i) continuously or fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or (ii) continuously and fully secured, to the extent not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, by lodging with the Trustee, as custodian, as collateral security, Qualified Investments having a market value (exclusive of accrued interest) not less than the amount of such moneys (or portion thereof not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation); provided, however, that, to the extent permitted by law, Item 2
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83 it shall not be necessary for the Fiduciaries to give security under this subsection (b) for the deposit of any moneys with them held in trust and set aside by them for the payment of the principal or Redemption Price of or interest on any Bonds, or for the Trustee, the Issuer or any Depository to give security for any moneys which shall be represented by obligations or certificates of deposit purchased as an investment of such moneys.
(c) All moneys deposited with the Trustee and each Depository shall be credited to the particular Fund or Account to which such moneys belong and, except as provided with respect to the investment of moneys in Qualified Investments in Section 6.03, the moneys credited to each particular Fund or Account shall be kept separate and apart from, and not commingled with, any moneys credited to any other Fund or Account or any other moneys deposited with the Trustee, the Issuer and each Depository, except as provided in Section 6.03.
Section 6.03. Investment of Certain Funds. Moneys held in the Debt Service Account shall be invested and reinvested by the Trustee at the Written Direction of the Issuer to the fullest extent practicable in Qualified Investments specified in such Written Direction which mature or are payable not later than such times as shall be necessary to provide moneys when needed for payments to be made from such Accounts and may take the form of a Debt Service Fund Agreement. To the extent moneys held in the Debt Service Account are invested in a Debt Service Fund Agreement, the Issuer covenants and agrees that it will not consent or agree to or permit any assignment of, rescission of or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with such Debt Service Fund Agreement without the written consent of the Trustee and the delivery to the Trustee of a Rating Confirmation with respect to such amendment. Moneys held in the Revenue Fund and the Project Fund may be invested and reinvested by the Trustee at the Written Direction of the Issuer in Qualified Investments specified in such Written Direction which mature not later than such times as shall be necessary to provide moneys when needed for payments to be made from such Funds. Moneys in the Operating Fund (other than moneys in the Operating Fund held with respect to Rebate Payments) may be invested at the Written Direction of the Issuer in Qualified Investments specified in such Written Direction which mature within twelve months or which provide funds as needed; moneys held in the Operating Fund with respect to Rebate Payments shall be invested at the Written Direction of the Issuer in Qualified Investments specified in such Written Direction at fair market value; and moneys in the General Reserve Fund and the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund may be invested at the Written Direction of the Issuer in Qualified Investments specified in such Written Direction; in any case the Qualified Investments in such Funds or in the Accounts therein shall mature not later than such times as shall be necessary to provide moneys when needed to provide payments from such Funds or Accounts.
The Trustee shall only be required to make investments of moneys held by it in the Funds and Accounts established under this Indenture in accordance with Written Directions received by the Trustee from any Authorized Officer of the Issuer and may rely on such investment directions without verifying the suitability or legality of such investment and any deposit or investment directed by the Issuer shall constitute a certification by the Issuer that the assets so deposited or to be purchased pursuant to such directions are Qualified Investments. In making any investment in any Qualified Investments with moneys in any Fund or Account established under this Indenture, the Issuer may give Written Direction to the Trustee to combine such moneys with moneys in any other Fund or Account, but solely for purposes of making such investment in such Qualified Investments.
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84 The Trustee shall only be required to make investments of moneys held by it in the Funds and Accounts established under this Indenture in accordance with Written Directions received by the Trustee from any Authorized Officer of the Issuer. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely in good faith on any Written Direction of the Issuer as to the suitability and legality of the directed investment and any deposit or investment directed by the Issuer shall constitute a certification by the Issuer that the assets so deposited or to be purchased pursuant to such directions are Qualified Investments. In making any investment in any Qualified Investments with moneys in any Fund or Account established under this Indenture, the Issuer may give Written Direction to the Trustee to combine such moneys with moneys in any other Fund or Account, but solely for purposes of making such investment in such Qualified Investments.
Interest earned on any moneys or investments in the Funds and Accounts established hereunder shall be paid into the Revenue Fund, other than interest earned on any moneys or investments in (i) the Redemption Account in the Debt Service Fund, (ii) the Operating Fund relating to Rebate Payments, (iii) the Energy Remarketing Reserve Fund, and (iv) the Administrative Fee Fund. Such interest shall be held in such respective Fund or Account for the purposes thereof. If no written investment directions have been delivered to the Trustee for any Fund or Account, moneys shall be held there uninvested by the Trustee.
Nothing in this Indenture shall prevent any Qualified Investments acquired as investments of or security for Funds held under this Indenture from being issued or held in book-entry form on the books of the Department of the Treasury of the United States.
Nothing in this Indenture shall preclude the Trustee from investing or reinvesting moneys that it holds in the Funds and Accounts established pursuant to this Indenture through its bond department; provided, however, that the Issuer may, in its discretion, give a Written Direction to the Trustee that such moneys be invested or reinvested in a manner other than through such bond department.
To the extent any Qualified Investment is insured, guaranteed or otherwise supported by any secondary facility, the Trustee shall make a claim under such facility at such time as shall be required to receive payment thereunder not later than the date required to make any necessary deposit pursuant to Section 5.05 or Section 5.09 or otherwise under Article V.
Section 6.04. Valuation and Sale of Investments. Obligations purchased as an investment of moneys in any Fund created under the provisions of this Indenture shall be deemed at all times to be a part of such Fund and any profit realized from the liquidation of such investment shall be credited to such Fund, and any loss resulting from the liquidation of such investment shall be charged to the respective Fund.
In computing the amount in any Fund created under the provisions of this Indenture for any purpose provided in this Indenture, obligations purchased as an investment of moneys therein shall be valued at the lower of market value or the amortized cost thereof. The accrued interest paid in connection with the purchase of any obligation shall be included in the value thereof until interest on such obligation is paid. Such computation shall be determined at the Written Direction of the Issuer to the Trustee as of each Principal Installment payment date and at such other times as the Issuer shall reasonably determine. Guaranteed investment contracts or similar agreements Item 2
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85 shall be valued at their face value to the extent that they provide for withdrawals without market adjustment or penalty when they are required to provide payment pursuant to this Indenture.
Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to sell at the best price obtainable, or present for redemption, any obligation so purchased as an investment whenever it shall be requested to do so by a Written Request of the Issuer. Whenever it shall be necessary in order to provide moneys to meet any payment or transfer from any Fund held by the Trustee or the Issuer, the Issuer or the Trustee at the Written Direction of the Issuer shall use reasonable efforts to sell at the best price obtainable or present for redemption such obligation or obligations designated by an Authorized Officer in a Written Direction of the Issuer to the Trustee as necessary to provide sufficient moneys for such payment or transfer. The Issuer acknowledges that, to the extent regulations of the Comptroller of the Currency or other applicable regulatory entity grants the Issuer the right to receive from the Trustee brokerage confirmations of security transactions as they occur, the Issuer specifically waives receipt of such confirmations to the extent permitted by law. The Trustee shall not be required to provide any brokerage information.
The Trustee shall not be liable or responsible for any loss, fee, tax or other charge resulting from any such investment, sale or presentation for redemption made in the manner provided above in Section 6.02, Section 6.03 or Section 6.04. In the event of any such loss, fee, tax or other charge, the Issuer shall pay such amount to the Trustee to be credited as part of the monies originally invested.
ARTICLE VII
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
The Issuer covenants and agrees with the Trustee and the Bondholders as follows:
Section 7.01. Payment of Bonds. The Issuer shall duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid, but solely from the Trust Estate, the principal or Redemption Price, if any, of every Bond and the interest thereon, at the dates and places and in the manner provided in the Bonds, according to the true intent and meaning thereof.
Section 7.02. Extension of Payment of Bonds. The Issuer shall not directly or indirectly extend or assent to the extension of the maturity of any of the Bonds or the time of payment of any claims for interest by the purchase or funding of such Bonds or claims for interest or by any other arrangement, and in case the maturity of any of the Bonds or the time for payment of any such claims for interest shall be extended, such Bonds or claims for interest shall not be entitled, in case of any default under this Indenture, to the benefit of this Indenture or to any payment out of Revenues or Funds established by this Indenture, including the investment income, if any, thereof, pledged under this Indenture or the moneys (except moneys held in trust for the payment of particular Bonds or claims for interest pursuant to this Indenture) held by the Fiduciaries, except subject to the prior payment of the principal of all Bonds Outstanding the maturity of which has not been extended and of such portion of the accrued interest on the Bonds as shall not be represented by such extended claims for interest.
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86 Section 7.03. Offices for Servicing Bonds. Pursuant to Section 2.02, the Issuer has appointed the Trustee as Bond Registrar and Paying Agent for the Bonds and the Trustee hereby accepts such appointments. The Trustee shall at all times maintain one or more agencies or offices where Bonds may be presented for registration exchange or transfer, where principal and Redemption Price of and interest on the Bonds may be paid, where reports, statements and other documents furnished to the Trustee hereunder may be inspected and where notices, demands and other documents may be served upon the Issuer in respect of the Bonds or of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall continuously maintain or make arrangements to provide such services. The Issuer shall maintain one or more offices or agencies where notices, demands and other documents may be served upon the Issuer in respect of the Bonds or this Indenture, and the Issuer shall continuously maintain or make arrangements to provide such services.
Section 7.04. Further Assurance. At any and all times the Issuer shall, as far as it may be authorized by law, comply with any reasonable request of the Trustee to pass, make, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver all and every such further resolutions, acts, deeds, conveyances, assignments, transfers and assurances as may be necessary or desirable for the better assuring, conveying, granting, pledging, assigning and confirming all and singular the rights, Revenues and other moneys, securities and funds hereby pledged, or intended so to be, or which the Issuer may become bound to pledge.
Section 7.05. Power To Issue Bonds and Pledge the Trust Estate. The Issuer is duly authorized under all applicable laws to create and issue the Bonds and to execute and deliver this Indenture and to pledge the Trust Estate, in the manner and to the extent provided in this Indenture.
Except to the extent otherwise provided in or contemplated by this Indenture, the Trust Estate will be free and clear of any pledge, lien, charge or encumbrance thereon or with respect thereto prior to, or of equal rank with, the security interest, the pledge and assignment created by this Indenture, and all action on the part of the Issuer to that end has been and will be duly and validly taken. The Bonds and the provisions of this Indenture are and will be the valid and legally enforceable limited obligations of the Issuer in accordance with their terms and the terms of this Indenture. The Issuer shall at all times, to the extent permitted by law, defend, preserve and protect the pledge of the Revenues and other moneys, securities and funds pledged under this Indenture and all the rights of the Bondholders under this Indenture against all claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever.
Section 7.06. Power To Fix and Collect Fees and Charges for the Sale of Energy. The Issuer has, and, to the extent permitted by law, will have as long as any Bonds are Outstanding, good right and lawful power to fix, establish, maintain and collect fees and charges for the sale of Energy or otherwise with respect to the Clean Energy Project, subject to the terms of the Power Supply Contracts.
Section 7.07. Creation of Liens. Except as expressly permitted under the terms of this Indenture, for so long as any Bonds are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not, without a Rating Confirmation, issue any bonds, notes, debentures or other evidences of indebtedness of similar nature payable from or secured by a pledge and assignment of the Trust Estate, other than the Bonds and bonds, notes, debentures or other evidences of indebtedness issued to refund Outstanding Bonds, or otherwise incur obligations other than those contemplated by this Indenture, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Power Supply Contracts, the Issuer Custodial Agreements, Item 2
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87 the Commodity Swaps, any Interest Rate Swaps and any documents or agreements relating to any of the foregoing (including, but not limited to, obligations under Qualified Investments), payable out of or secured by a pledge or assignment of, or lien on, the Trust Estate; and, except as expressly permitted under the terms of this Indenture, shall not, without a Rating Confirmation, create or cause to be created any lien or charge on the Trust Estate except as provided in or contemplated by this Indenture, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Power Supply Contracts, the Issuer Custodial Agreements, the Commodity Swaps, any Interest Rate Swap and any documents or agreements relating to any of the foregoing (including, but not limited to, obligations under Qualified Investments); provided, however, that nothing contained in this Indenture shall prevent the Issuer from entering into or issuing, if and to the extent permitted by law (A) evidences of indebtedness (1) payable out of moneys in the Project Fund as part of the Cost of Acquisition or (2) payable out of or secured by a pledge and assignment of the Trust Estate or any part thereof to be derived on and after such date as the pledge of the Trust Estate provided in this Indenture shall be discharged and satisfied as provided in Section 12.01, or (B) Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swaps upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.
Section 7.08. [Reserved].
Section 7.09. Limitations on Operating Expenses and Other Costs. The Issuer shall not incur Operating Expenses in any Fiscal Year in excess of the reasonable and necessary amount of such Operating Expenses.
Section 7.10. Amendments to Power Supply Contracts. The Issuer will not consent or agree to or permit any termination or rescission of, assignment or novation (in whole or in part) by a Project Participant of, or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with any Power Supply Contract that will impair the ability of the Issuer to collect Revenues in each Fiscal Year which, together with the other amounts available therefor, shall provide an amount sufficient to pay:
(a) The amount estimated by the Issuer to be required to be paid during such Fiscal Year into the Operating Fund;
(b) The amounts, if any, required to be paid during such Fiscal Year into the Debt Service Fund other than any such amounts which the Issuer anticipates shall be transferred from other Funds or Accounts;
(c) The amounts, if any, to be paid during such Fiscal Year into any other Fund established under Section 5.02; and
(d) All other charges or liens whatsoever payable out of Revenues during such Fiscal Year;
provided that:
(i) the Issuer may take any other action under or in connection with the Power Supply Contracts that is expressly permitted pursuant to the provisions thereof; Item 2
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88 (ii) the Issuer and a Project Participant may amend the Power Supply Contracts to change any Delivery Point (as defined and provided therein); (iii) a Power Supply Contract may be amended upon receipt of (A) a Rating Confirmation with respect to such amendment, and (B) to the extent such amendment would have a material adverse effect (including, but not limited to, a change in the timing of payments, the source of such payments, or the Issuer’s rights of collection thereof) upon the Receivables Purchase Provisions or a Commodity Swap, the consent of the Energy Supplier or applicable Commodity Swap Counterparty, respectively, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed;
(iv) the Issuer may agree to an assignment or novation of all or a portion of a Project Participant’s rights and obligations under a Power Supply Contract upon (A) compliance with the restrictions on assignment set forth in such Power Supply Contract, and (B) receipt of a Rating Confirmation with respect to such assignment or novation; and
(v) a Power Supply Contract may also be amended in connection with a remediation pursuant to Section 18.3(b) of the Energy Purchase Agreement.
Section 7.11. Power Supply Contract; Energy Remarketing. (a) The Issuer shall cause all Revenues payable by the Project Participants under the Power Supply Contracts to be payable directly to the Trustee for deposit into the Revenue Fund or custodial accounts established pursuant to Section 5.02(b). The Issuer shall enforce the provisions of the Power Supply Contracts, as well as any other contract or contracts entered into relating to the Clean Energy Project, and duly perform its covenants and agreements thereunder.
(b) In the event that any Project Participant fails to pay when due any amounts owed to the Issuer under a Power Supply Contract, the Issuer shall:
(i) promptly exercise its right to suspend all Energy deliveries to such Project Participant; and
(ii) promptly give notice to the Energy Supplier to follow the provisions set forth in the Remarketing Exhibit to the Energy Purchase Agreement for each Month of such suspension with respect to the quantities of Energy for which deliveries have been suspended.
(c) In the event that any Project Participant delivers a Remarketing Election Notice (as defined in each Power Supply Contract) in respect of any Reset Period, then the Issuer will promptly give notice to the Energy Supplier to follow the provisions set forth in the Remarketing Provisions for each month of such Reset Period with respect to any quantities of Energy that would otherwise have been delivered to such Project Participant. (d) For the avoidance of doubt, as of the date of this Indenture, the Power Supply Contracts with the Project Participants set forth on Schedule I shall be the only Power Supply Contracts until such time, if any, that an assignment or novation occurs in accordance with the requirements set forth above. Without prejudice to the rights of the Energy Supplier to remarket Item 2
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89 Energy under the Energy Purchase Agreement or to an assignment or novation of a Power Supply Contract in compliance with this Section 7.11, the Issuer may sell the quantities of Energy to be delivered under the Energy Purchase Agreement only pursuant to the Power Supply Contracts. A copy of each Power Supply Contract and any amendment to a Power Supply Contract, certified by an Authorized Officer, shall be filed with the Trustee.
Section 7.12. Energy Purchase Agreement. (a)The Issuer shall enforce the provisions of the Energy Purchase Agreement and duly perform its covenants and agreements thereunder. (b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer of any payment default that has occurred and is continuing on the part of the Energy Supplier under the Energy Purchase Agreement. The Issuer shall provide the Trustee with Written Notice of the Early Termination Payment Date (i) on the date on which a Failed Remarketing occurs, and (ii) in all other cases, not more than five (5) Business Days after such date is determined. (c) The Issuer will not consent or agree to or permit any assignment of, rescission of or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with the Energy Purchase Agreement which will in any manner materially impair or materially adversely affect the rights of the Issuer thereunder or the rights or security of the Bondholders under this Indenture; provided that the Energy Purchase Agreement may be assigned or amended without Bondholder consent upon receipt of a Rating Confirmation with respect to such assignment or amendment. The Energy Purchase Agreement may also be amended in connection with a remediation pursuant to Section 18.3(b) of the Energy Purchase Agreement. Copies of the Energy Purchase Agreement and any amendments thereto, certified by an Authorized Officer, shall be filed with the Trustee. (d) The Issuer has the right, pursuant to the Energy Supplier LLCA to appoint a director (the “Issuer-Appointed Director”) to the board of directors of the Energy Supplier. In any vote that comes before the board of directors of the Energy Supplier regarding the Energy Supplier Documents, the Issuer shall instruct the Issuer-Appointed Director to exercise its voting rights in favor of the Energy Supplier (i) observing and performing its obligations under the Energy Purchase Agreement and (ii) enforcing the provisions of the other Energy Supplier Documents and (iii) not permitting any assignment of, rescission of or amendment to or waiver of the Energy Supplier Documents which will in any manner materially impair or materially adversely affect the rights of the Issuer thereunder or the rights or security of the Bondholders under this Indenture.
Section 7.13. [Reserved].
Section 7.14. Commodity Swaps. The Issuer shall cause all Commodity Swap Receipts and any other amounts payable to the Issuer pursuant to the Commodity Swaps to be collected and paid directly to the Trustee for deposit into the Revenue Fund. The Issuer shall enforce the provisions of the Commodity Swaps and duly perform its covenants and agreements thereunder.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer of any payment default that has occurred and is continuing on the part of a Commodity Swap Counterparty under a Commodity Swap. The Issuer will not consent or agree to or permit any termination or rescission of or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with a Commodity Swap that will impair the ability of the Issuer to comply during the current or any future year with the provisions hereof. The Issuer shall only exercise its right to terminate a Commodity Swap in compliance with Section 2.12(b). A copy Item 2
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90 of each Commodity Swap certified by an Authorized Officer shall be filed with the Trustee, and a copy of any amendment to a Commodity Swap, certified by an Authorized Officer, shall be filed with the Trustee.
Section 7.15. Interest Rate Swap. The Issuer shall cause all Interest Rate Swap Receipts or other amounts payable to the Issuer pursuant to the Interest Rate Swap to be collected and paid to the Trustee for deposit into the Debt Service Account. The Issuer shall enforce the provisions of the Interest Rate Swap and duly perform its covenants and agreements thereunder. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer of any payment default that has occurred and is continuing on the part of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap. The Issuer will not consent or agree to or permit any termination or rescission of or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with the Interest Rate Swap that will impair the ability of the Issuer to comply during the current or any future year with the provisions hereof. The Issuer shall only exercise its right to terminate the Interest Rate Swap in compliance with Section 2.13(b). A copy of the Interest Rate Swap certified by an Authorized Officer shall be filed with the Trustee, and a copy of any amendment to the Interest Rate Swap, certified by an Authorized Officer, shall be filed with the Trustee.
Section 7.16. Accounts and Reports. (a) The Issuer shall keep or cause to be kept with respect to the Clean Energy Project proper books of record and account (separate from all other records and accounts) in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as such may be modified by the provisions of this Indenture, in which complete and correct entries shall be made of its transactions relating to the Clean Energy Project, the amount of Revenues and the application thereof and each Fund and Account established under this Indenture and relating to its costs and charges under the Power Supply Contracts and any other contracts for the sale or purchase of Energy, and which, together with the Energy Purchase Agreement and all contracts and all other books and papers of the Issuer relating to the Clean Energy Project, shall, subject to the terms thereof, at all times during regular business hours be subject to the inspection of the Trustee and the Holders of an aggregate of not less than 5% in principal amount of the Bonds then Outstanding or their representatives duly authorized in writing. (b) The Trustee shall advise the Issuer promptly after the end of each month of the respective transactions during such month relating to each Fund and Account held by it under this Indenture.
(c) The Issuer shall file with the Trustee (i) forthwith upon becoming aware of any Event of Default or default in the performance by the Issuer of any covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, a Written Certificate of the Issuer and specifying such Event of Default or default and (ii) within 180 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, commencing with the first Fiscal Year ending following the issuance of the Bonds, a Written Certificate of the Issuer signed by an appropriate Authorized Officer stating whether, to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge and belief, the Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its covenants and obligations contained in this Indenture and that there does not exist at the date of such certificate any default by the Issuer under this Indenture or any Event of Default or other event which, with the lapse of time specified in Section 8.01, would become an Event of Default, or, if any such default or Event of Default or other event shall so exist, specifying the same and the nature and status thereof.
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91 (d) The reports, statements and other documents required to be furnished to the Trustee pursuant to any provisions of this Indenture shall be available for the inspection of Bondholders at all times during regular business hours at the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee (upon reasonable prior written notice of inspection delivered to the Trustee), subject to such reasonable regulations as the Trustee may from time to time determine to be advisable or required by law, and shall be mailed to each Bondholder who shall file a written request therefor with the Issuer. The Issuer may charge each Bondholder requesting such reports, statements and other documents a reasonable fee to cover reproduction, handling and postage.
Section 7.17. Payment of Taxes and Charges. The Issuer will from time to time duly pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, or required payments in lieu thereof, lawfully imposed upon the properties of the Issuer or upon the rights, revenues, income, receipts, and other moneys, securities and funds of the Issuer when the same shall become due (including all rights, moneys and other property transferred, assigned or pledged under this Indenture), and all lawful claims for labor and material and supplies, except those taxes, assessments, charges or claims which the Issuer shall in good faith contest by proper legal proceedings if the Issuer shall in all such cases have set aside on its books reserves deemed adequate by the Issuer with respect thereto.
Section 7.18. Tax Covenants. (a) The Issuer covenants that it shall not take any action, or fail to take any action, or permit any action to be taken on its behalf or cause or permit any circumstance within its control to arise or continue, if any such action or inaction would adversely affect the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax purposes of the interest on any of the Bonds under Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code and the applicable Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or, as applicable, would adversely affect the Subsidy Payments or receipt thereof by the Issuer or the Trustee. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Issuer covenants that it will (i) comply with the instructions and requirements of the Tax Agreement and (ii) exercise commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Bonds to be redeemed (A) in such amount as may be necessary to maintain the exclusion from federal gross income of interest on the Bonds and (B) in whole in the event that interest on the Bonds becomes includible in federal gross income. The Issuer further agrees to follow any directions provided by Special Tax Counsel with respect to any such redemption. This covenant shall survive payment in full or defeasance of the Bonds.
(b) In the event that at any time the Issuer is of the opinion that for purposes of this Section it is necessary or helpful to restrict or limit the yield on the investment of any moneys held by the Trustee under this Indenture, the Issuer shall so instruct the Trustee in writing as to the specific actions to be taken, and the Trustee shall take such action as specified in such instructions. (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, if the Issuer shall provide to the Trustee an Opinion of Special Tax Counsel that any specified action required under this Section is no longer required or that some further or different action is required to maintain the exclusion from federal income tax of interest on the Bonds or the qualification of the Issuer to receive Subsidy Payments with respect to the applicable Series of Bonds, the Issuer and the Trustee may conclusively rely on such opinion in complying with the requirements of this Section and of the Tax Agreement, and the covenants hereunder shall be deemed to be modified to that extent.
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92 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, upon the Issuer’s failure to observe or refusal to comply with the above covenants, the Holders of the Bonds, or the Trustee acting on their behalf pursuant to their written request and direction, shall be entitled to the rights and remedies provided to Bondholders under this Indenture based upon the Issuer’s failure to observe, or refusal to comply with, the above covenants. In connection with any action taken by it under this Section, the Trustee shall have the benefit of all of the protective provisions set forth in Article IX.
Section 7.19. General. (a) The Issuer shall at all times maintain its existence and shall do and perform or cause to be done and performed all acts and things required to be done or performed by or on behalf of the Issuer under the provisions of the Act and this Indenture. (b) The Issuer shall not consolidate or amalgamate with, or merge with or into, or transfer all or substantially all its assets to (other than the sale in the normal course of business of Energy to the Project Participants pursuant to the Power Supply Contracts), or reorganize, reincorporate or reconstitute into or as, another entity unless, (i) prior to such event, the Issuer receives confirmation from each Commodity Swap Counterparty that such event does not trigger a termination event under Section 5(b)(iv) of the respective Commodity Swap and confirmation from the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty that such event does not trigger a termination event under Section 5(b)(iv) of the Interest Rate Swap; and (ii) at the time of such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, transfer, reorganization, reincorporation or reconstitution, the resulting, surviving or transferee entity assumes all the obligations of the Issuer under the Commodity Swaps and the Interest Rate Swap.
(c) The Issuer shall not take any action, or fail to take any action, or permit any action to be taken on its behalf or cause or permit any circumstance within its control to arise or continue, if any such action or inaction would adversely affect the ratings on the Bonds. (d) Upon the date of authentication and delivery of any of the Bonds, all conditions, acts and things required by law and this Indenture to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the issuance of such Bonds shall exist, have happened and have been performed, and the issuance of such Bonds, together with all other obligations of the Issuer, shall comply in all respects with the applicable laws of the State.
Section 7.20. Bankruptcy. To the extent permitted by law, the Issuer shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this Indenture, acquiesce, petition, or otherwise invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian or sequestrator for any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Issuer. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
Section 7.21. [Reserved].
Section 7.22. [Reserved].
Section 7.23. Avoidance of Failed Remarketing. The Issuer covenants that it will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to avoid a Failed Remarketing.
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 8.01. Events of Default. Any one or more of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default” hereunder:
(a) default shall be made in the due and punctual payment of the principal or Redemption Price or Purchase Price of any Bond when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity or by call for redemption or tender, or otherwise; (b) default shall be made in the due and punctual payment of any installment of interest on any Bond or the unsatisfied balance of any Sinking Fund Installment therefor (except when such Sinking Fund Installment is due on the maturity date of such Bond), when and as such interest installment or Sinking Fund Installment shall become due and payable;
(c) default shall be made by the Issuer in the performance or observance of any other of the covenants, agreements or conditions on its part in this Indenture or in the Bonds contained, and such default shall continue for a period of 60 days or, if such default cannot reasonably be remedied within such 60-day period, such longer period so long as diligent efforts are being made to remedy such default, after written notice thereof specifying such default and requiring that it shall have been remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder is given to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and to the Trustee by the Holders of not less than 10% in principal amount of the Bonds Outstanding;
(d) default shall be made in the due and punctual payment of any Commodity Swap Payment or Interest Rate Swap Payment when and as the same shall become due and payable;
(e) the Issuer shall commence a voluntary case or similar proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect (provided, however, that such event shall not constitute an Event of Default hereunder unless in addition, (i) the Issuer is unable to meet its debts with respect to the Clean Energy Project as such debts mature or (ii) any plan of adjustment or other action in such proceeding would affect in any way the Revenues or the Clean Energy Project, or shall authorize, apply for or consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar official for the Clean Energy Project, or any part thereof, and/or the rents, fees, charges or other revenues therefrom, or shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall make a written declaration or admission to the effect that it is unable to meet its debts with respect to the Clean Energy Project as such debts mature, or shall authorize or take any action in furtherance of any of the foregoing;
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94 applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, (provided, however, that such event shall not constitute an Event of Default hereunder unless in addition, (i) the Issuer is unable to meet its debts with respect to the Clean Energy Project as such debts mature or (ii) any plan of adjustment or other action in such proceeding would affect in any way the Revenues or the Clean Energy Project, or a decree or order appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for the Clean Energy Project, or any part thereof, and/or the rents, fees, charges or other revenues therefor, or a decree or order for the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Issuer and its affairs or a decree or order finding or determining that the Issuer is unable to meet its debts with respect to the Clean Energy Project as such debts mature, and any such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; and
(g) there shall occur any other Event of Default specified in a Supplemental Indenture.
Section 8.02. Accounting and Examination of Records After Default. (a) The Issuer covenants that if an Event of Default shall have happened and shall not have been remedied, the books of record and accounts of the Issuer and all other records relating to the Clean Energy Project shall at all times during regular business hours be subject to the inspection and use of the Trustee and of its agents and attorneys.
(b) The Issuer covenants that if an Event of Default shall have happened and shall not have been remedied, the Issuer, upon demand of the Trustee, will account, as if it were the trustee of an express trust, for all Revenues and other moneys, securities and funds pledged or held under this Indenture for such period as shall be stated in such demand.
Section 8.03. Enforcement of Agreements; Application of Moneys after Default. (a) The Issuer covenants that, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, it shall upon the demand of the Trustee (i) take such additional actions on its part as shall be necessary to cause all Project Participants to make payments of all amounts due under the Power Supply Contracts to the Trustee, (ii) take such additional actions on its part as shall be necessary to cause the Commodity Swap Counterparties to make payment of all amounts due under the Commodity Swaps directly to the Trustee, (iii) take such additional actions on its part as shall be necessary to cause the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty to make payment of all amounts due under the Interest Rate Swap directly to the Trustee, (iv) execute and deliver such additional instruments that may be necessary to establish or confirm its pledge and assignment to the Trustee of its rights and remedies afforded the Issuer under the Power Supply Contracts, and (v) pay over or cause to be paid over to the Trustee any Revenues which have not been paid directly to the Trustee as promptly as practicable after receipt thereof. In addition, to secure its obligations under this Indenture, the Issuer hereby irrevocably pledges and collaterally assigns to the Trustee the Issuer’s rights to issue notices (including notices to direct the remarketing of Energy) and to take any other actions that the Issuer is required or permitted to take under the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Power Supply Contracts, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap, and, while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, the Trustee is hereby authorized and directed, and shall have the authority, to take any such actions as it deems necessary under the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Power Supply Contracts, the Commodity Swaps and any Interest Rate Swap.
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95 Notwithstanding this authorization, the Issuer shall retain, in the absence of any conflicting action by the Trustee while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the right and obligation to exercise any rights which it has pledged and collaterally assigned to the Trustee in accordance with the foregoing; provided, however, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall have the right to notify the Issuer to cease exercising such rights and, upon receipt of such notice with a copy provided to the Energy Supplier under the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Project Participants under the Power Supply Contracts, and the Commodity Swap Counterparties under the Commodity Swaps, subject to the rights of the Energy Supplier with respect to the Power Supply Contracts as set forth in the Receivables Purchase Provisions, the Trustee shall have exclusive authority to exercise such rights until such time as the Event of Default has been cured pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or the Trustee issues a subsequent notice otherwise. For the avoidance of doubt, the Energy Purchase Agreement, the Power Supply Contracts and the Commodity Swaps may be amended at any time for changes in Delivery Points as provided therein, without the consent of the Bondholders, any parties other than those to the relevant agreement, and without the provision of opinions or other process hereunder. (b) During the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee shall apply all moneys, securities, funds and Revenues received by the Trustee pursuant to any right given or action taken under the provisions of this Article in accordance with Article V of this Indenture, after the payment of the fees, charges, expenses and liabilities of the Fiduciaries (including court costs and the fees and expenses of the Fiduciaries’ counsel) payable to or incurred by the Fiduciaries in connection with the performance of their duties and the exercise of their rights hereunder, provided that (1) moneys held in the Debt Service Account shall not be used for purposes other than payment of the interest and principal or Redemption Price then due on the Bonds and the payment of Interest Rate Swap Payments then due under the Interest Rate Swap, (2) moneys in the Commodity Swap Payment Fund shall be used first to pay any Commodity Swap Payments then due, (3) moneys held in the General Reserve Fund shall not be used other than for the payment of the items specified in Section 5.10(a), and (4) moneys held in the Administrative Fee Fund shall not be used other than as specified in Section 5.14.
(c) If and whenever all overdue installments of interest on all Bonds, together with the charges, expenses and liabilities of the Fiduciaries, and all other sums payable or secured by the Issuer under this Indenture, including the principal and Redemption Price of and accrued unpaid interest on all Bonds which shall then be payable by declaration or otherwise, shall either be paid by or for the account of the Issuer, or provisions satisfactory to the Trustee shall be made for such payment, and all defaults under this Indenture or the Bonds shall be made good or secured to the satisfaction of the Trustee or provision deemed by the Trustee to be adequate shall be made therefor, the Trustee shall pay over to the Issuer all moneys, securities and funds then remaining unexpended in the hands of the Trustee (except moneys, securities and funds deposited or pledged, or required by the terms of this Indenture, particularly Section 5.02, to be deposited or pledged, with the Trustee), and thereupon the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored, respectively, to their former positions and rights under this Indenture. No such payment over to the Issuer by the Trustee nor restoration of the Issuer and the Trustee to their former positions and rights shall extend to or affect any subsequent default under this Indenture or impair any right consequent thereon.
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96 Section 8.04. Appointment of Receiver. The Trustee shall have the right, upon the happening of an Event of Default, to apply in an appropriate proceeding for the appointment of a receiver of the Clean Energy Project.
Section 8.05. Proceedings Brought by Trustee. (a) If an Event of Default shall happen and shall not have been remedied, then and in every such case, the Trustee, by its agents and attorneys, may proceed, and upon written request of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Bonds Outstanding and upon being indemnified to its satisfaction shall proceed, to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of the Bonds under this Indenture forthwith by a suit or suits in equity or at law, whether for the specific performance of any covenant herein contained, or in aid of the execution of any power herein granted, or for an accounting against the Issuer as if the Issuer were the trustee of an express trust, or in the enforcement of any other legal or equitable right as the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall deem most effectual to enforce any of its rights or to perform any of its duties under this Indenture. (b) All rights of action under this Indenture may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Bonds or the production thereof at the trial or other proceedings, and any such suit or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its name. (c) The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Bonds at the time Outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, provided that the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee shall be advised by counsel that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability or be unjustly prejudicial to the Bondholders not parties to such direction.
(d) Upon commencing a suit in equity or upon other commencement of judicial proceedings by the Trustee to enforce any right under this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to exercise any and all rights and powers conferred in this Indenture and provided to be exercised by the Trustee upon the occurrence of any Event of Default. (e) Regardless of the happening of an Event of Default, the Trustee shall have power to, but unless requested in writing by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Bonds then Outstanding and furnished with reasonable security and indemnity, shall be under no obligation to, institute and maintain such suits and proceedings as it may be advised shall be necessary or expedient to prevent any impairment of the security under this Indenture by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may be advised shall be necessary or expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Bondholders.
Section 8.06. Restriction on Bondholder’s Action. (a) No Holder of any Bond shall have any right to institute any suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity for the enforcement of any provision of this Indenture or the execution of any trust under this Indenture or for any remedy under this Indenture, unless such Holder (i) shall have previously given to the Trustee written notice of the happening of an Event of Default, as provided in this Article, and the Holders of at Item 2
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97 least a majority in principal amount of the Bonds then Outstanding shall have filed a written request with the Trustee, (ii) shall have offered it reasonable opportunity, either to exercise the powers granted in this Indenture or by the laws of the State or to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name, and (iii) shall have offered to the Trustee adequate security and indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee shall have refused to comply with such request for a period of 60 days after receipt by it of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Bonds shall have any right in any manner whatever by its or their action to affect, disturb or prejudice the pledge created by this Indenture, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner therein provided; and that all proceedings at law or in equity to enforce any provision of this Indenture shall be instituted, had and maintained in the manner provided in this Indenture and for the equal benefit of all Holders of the Outstanding Bonds, subject only to the provisions of Section 7.02.
(b) Nothing in this Indenture or in the Bonds shall affect or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay only from the Trust Estate, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, at the respective dates of maturity and places therein expressed the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Bonds to the respective Holders thereof, or affect or impair the right of action, which is also absolute and unconditional, of any Holder to enforce such payment of its Bond.
Section 8.07. Remedies Not Exclusive. No remedy by the terms of this Indenture conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or the Bondholders is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy, but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Indenture or existing at law or in equity or by statute on or after the date of execution and delivery of this Indenture.
Section 8.08. Effect of Waiver and Other Circumstances. (a) No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Bondholder to exercise any right or power arising upon the happening of an Event of Default shall impair any right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or be an acquiescence therein; and every power and remedy given by this Article VIII to the Trustee or to the Bondholders may be exercised from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient by the Trustee or by the Bondholders.
(b) Prior to the declaration of maturity of the Bonds as provided in Section 8.01, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Bonds at the time Outstanding, or their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Bonds waive any past default under this Indenture and its consequences, except a default in the payment of interest on or principal of or premium (if any) on any of the Bonds. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 8.09. Notice of Default. The Trustee shall promptly mail written notice of the occurrence of any Event of Default to each registered owner of Bonds then Outstanding at its address, if any, appearing upon the registry books of the Issuer.
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98 ARTICLE IX
CONCERNING THE FIDUCIARIES
Section 9.01. Acceptance by Trustee of Duties. The Trustee accepts the duties and obligations imposed upon it by this Indenture and the trusts hereby created, but only, however, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture.
Section 9.02. Paying Agents; Appointment and Acceptance of Duties. (a) The Issuer shall appoint one or more Paying Agents for the Bonds, and may at any time or from time to time appoint one or more other Paying Agents. All Paying Agents appointed shall have the qualifications set forth in Section 9.13 for a successor Paying Agent. The Trustee is hereby appointed as initial Paying Agent.
(b) Each Paying Agent shall signify its acceptance of the duties and obligations imposed upon it by this Indenture by executing and delivering to the Issuer and to the Trustee a written acceptance thereof.
(c) Unless otherwise provided, the principal corporate trust offices of the Paying Agents are designated as the respective offices or agencies of the Issuer for the payment of the interest on and principal or Redemption Price of the Bonds.
Section 9.03. Responsibilities of Fiduciaries. (a) The recitals of fact herein and in the Bonds contained shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer and no Fiduciary assumes any responsibility for the correctness of the same. No Fiduciary makes any representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of any Bonds issued hereunder or as to the security afforded by this Indenture, and no Fiduciary shall incur any liability in respect thereof.
Furthermore, no Fiduciary shall be responsible for any offering documents (except for information provided by any Fiduciary for inclusion in such offering documents). The Trustee shall, however, be responsible for its representation contained in its certificate of authentication on the Bonds. No Fiduciary shall be under any responsibility or duty with respect to the application of any moneys, including bond proceeds, paid by such Fiduciary in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture to the Issuer or to any other Person. No Fiduciary shall be under any obligation or duty to perform any act which would involve it in expense or liability or to institute or undertake any suit or proceeding under this Indenture or to enter any appearance in or defend any suit in respect thereof, or to advance any of its own moneys, expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability unless properly indemnified to its satisfaction against any and all costs and expenses, outlays and counsel fees and other anticipated disbursements, and against all liability except to the extent determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence or willful misconduct. To the extent permitted by law, the Issuer shall indemnify the Trustee for, and hold it harmless against, any loss, damage, claim, liability or expense incurred by it, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or the performance of any of its duties hereunder unless properly indemnified to its satisfaction. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), no Fiduciary shall be liable in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder except to the extent determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been primarily caused by its own negligence or willful Item 2
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99 misconduct. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the permissive rights of any Fiduciary to do things enumerated under this Indenture shall not be construed as duties. (b) The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured) the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. Any provision of this Indenture relating to action taken or to be taken by the Trustee or to evidence upon which the Trustee may rely shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 9.03 and Section 9.04. (c) The Trustee shall not be considered in breach of or in default in its obligations hereunder or progress in respect thereto in the event of enforced delay (“unavoidable delay”) in connection with the performance of such obligations due to unforeseeable causes beyond its control and without its fault or negligence, including, but not limited to, Acts of God or of the public enemy or terrorists, acts of a government, acts of the other party, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes, freight embargoes, earthquakes, explosion, mob violence, riot, inability to procure or general sabotage or rationing of labor, equipment, facilities, sources of energy, material or supplies in the open market, litigation or arbitration involving a party or others relating to zoning or other governmental action or inaction pertaining to the project, malicious mischief, condemnation, and unusually severe weather or delays of suppliers or subcontractors due to such causes or any similar event and/or occurrences beyond the control of the Trustee. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Issuer acknowledges and agrees that the Trustee is not acting as the disclosure or dissemination agent for purposes of Rule 15c2-12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in connection with any notice required to be posted with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board via its EMMA system.
Section 9.04. Evidence on Which Fiduciaries May Act. (a) Each Fiduciary may conclusively rely upon any notice, direction, ordinance, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond, statement, facsimile transmission, electronic mail or other paper or document furnished to it pursuant to any provision of this Indenture and shall be protected in acting upon any such instrument believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties and in conformity with the formal requirements of this Indenture.
Each Fiduciary may consult with a consultant, accountant or counsel, who may or may not be a consultant, accountant or counsel to the Issuer, and the opinion of such consultant, accountant or counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered by it under this Indenture in good faith and in accordance therewith and the Trustee shall be under no duty to make any investigation or inquiry into any statements contained or matters referred to in any such instrument.
(b) Whenever any Fiduciary shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering any action under this Indenture, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be therein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a Written Certificate of the Issuer, and such certificate shall be full warrant for any action taken or suffered in good faith under the provisions of this Indenture upon Item 2
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the faith thereof; but in its discretion the Fiduciary may in lieu thereof accept other evidence of such fact or matter or may require such further or additional evidence as it may deem reasonable.
Neither the Trustee, the Bond Registrar, the tender agent, nor the Paying Agent shall be bound to recognize any Person as a Bondholder or to take any action at its request unless its Bond shall be deposited with such entity or satisfactory evidence of the ownership of such Bond shall be furnished to such entity.
(c) The Trustee shall have the right to accept and act upon directions given pursuant to this Indenture, or any other document reasonably relating to the Bonds and delivered using Electronic Means; provided, however, that the Issuer shall provide to the Trustee a Written Certificate of the Issuer listing Authorized Officers with the authority to provide such directions and containing specimen signatures of such Authorized Officers, which Written Certificate of the Issuer shall be amended whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. If the Issuer elects to give the Trustee directions using Electronic Means and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such directions, the Trustee’s understanding of such directions shall be deemed controlling. The Issuer understands and agrees that the Trustee cannot determine the identity of the actual sender of such directions and that the Trustee shall conclusively presume that directions that purport to have been sent by an Authorized Officer listed on the Written Certificate of the Issuer provided to the Trustee have been sent by such Authorized Officer. The Issuer shall be responsible for ensuring that only Authorized Officers transmit such directions to the Trustee and that all Authorized Officers treat applicable user and authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys issued by the Trustee as confidential and with extreme care. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such directions notwithstanding such directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written direction. The Issuer agrees: (i) to assume all risks arising out of the use of Electronic Means to submit directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized directions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties; (ii) that it is fully informed of the protections and risks associated with the various methods of transmitting directions to the Trustee and that there may be more secure methods of transmitting directions; (iii) that the security procedures (if any) to be followed in connection with its transmission of directions provide to it a commercially reasonable degree of protection in light of its particular needs and circumstances; and (iv) to notify the Trustee immediately upon learning of any compromise or unauthorized use of the security procedures.
Section 9.05. Compensation. The Issuer shall pay or cause to be paid to each Fiduciary from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered under this Indenture, and also all reasonable expenses, charges, legal fees and other disbursements, including those of its attorneys, agents and employees, incurred in and about the performance of their powers and duties under this Indenture, in accordance with the agreements made from time to time between the Issuer and the Fiduciary. Subject to the provisions of Section 9.03, the Issuer further agrees, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and save each Fiduciary harmless against any liabilities that it may incur in the exercise and performance of its powers and duties hereunder and that are not due to such Fiduciary’s negligence or willful misconduct.
Section 9.06. Certain Permitted Acts. Any Fiduciary, individually or otherwise, may become the owner of any Bonds, with the same rights it would have if it were not a Fiduciary. To the extent permitted by law, any Fiduciary may act as depository for, and permit any of its officers Item 2
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or directors to act as a member of, or in any other capacity with respect to, any committee formed to protect the rights of Bondholders or to effect or aid in any reorganization growing out of the enforcement of the Bonds or this Indenture, whether or not any such committee shall represent the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Bonds then Outstanding. Nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Bondholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition affecting the Bonds or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Bondholder in any such proceeding without the approval of the Bondholders so affected.
Section 9.07. Resignation of Trustee. The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged of the duties created by this Indenture by giving not less than 60 days’ written notice to the Issuer and mailing notice thereof to the Holders of Bonds then Outstanding, specifying the date when such resignation shall take effect, and such resignation shall take effect upon the day specified in such notice unless (a) previously a successor shall have been appointed by the Issuer or the Bondholders as provided in Section 9.09, in which event such resignation shall take effect immediately on the appointment of such successor, or (b) a successor shall not have been appointed by the Issuer or the Bondholders as provided in Section 9.09 on such date, in which event such resignation shall not take effect until a successor is appointed.
Section 9.08. Removal of the Trustee. The Trustee may be removed with 30 days’ prior notice with or without cause by an instrument or concurrent instruments in writing, filed with the Trustee, and signed by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Bonds then Outstanding or their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, excluding any Bonds held by or for the account of the Issuer. So long as no Event of Default, or an event which, with notice or passage of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be removed at any time with 30 days’ prior Written Notice, with or without cause, by delivery of a Written Certificate of the Issuer to the Trustee with respect to the foregoing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such removal of the Trustee shall not be effective until a successor Trustee has been appointed pursuant to Section 9.09.
Section 9.09. Appointment of Successor Trustee. (a) In case at any time the Trustee shall resign or shall be removed or shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or if a receiver, liquidator or conservator of the Trustee, or of its property, shall be appointed, or if any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee, or of its property or affairs, a successor Trustee may be appointed by the Issuer by a duly executed written instrument signed by an Authorized Officer.
(b) If no appointment of a successor Trustee shall be made pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section within 30 days after the Trustee shall have given to the Issuer written notice as provided in Section 9.07 or within 30 days after a vacancy in the office of the Trustee shall have occurred by reason of its inability to act, removal, or for any other reason whatsoever, the Trustee or the Holder of any Bond (in any case) may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Trustee. Said court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as such court may deem proper, appoint a successor Trustee. (c) Any Trustee appointed under the provisions of this Section 9.09 in succession to the Trustee shall be a bank or trust company organized under the laws of any state or a national Item 2
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banking association and shall have capital stock, surplus and undivided earnings aggregating at least $100,000,000 if there be such a bank with trust powers or trust company or national banking association willing and able to accept the office on reasonable and customary terms and authorized by law to perform all the duties imposed upon it by this Indenture.
Section 9.10. Transfer of Rights and Property to Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed under this Indenture shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor Trustee, and also to the Issuer, an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all moneys, estates, properties, rights, powers, duties and obligations of such predecessor Trustee, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee; but the Trustee ceasing to act shall nevertheless, on the Written Request of the Issuer or of the successor Trustee, at the cost and expense of the Issuer, execute, acknowledge and deliver such instrument of conveyance and further assurance and do such other things as may reasonably be required for more fully and certainly vesting and confirming in such successor Trustee all the right, title and interest of the predecessor Trustee in and to any property, rights, interests and estates held by it under this Indenture, and shall pay over, assign and deliver to the successor Trustee any money or other property subject to the trusts and conditions herein set forth. Should any deed, conveyance or instrument in writing from the Issuer be required by such successor Trustee for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee any such estates, rights, powers and duties, any and all such deeds, conveyances and instruments in writing shall, on request, and so far as may be authorized by law, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Issuer. Any such successor Trustee shall promptly notify the Paying Agents of its appointment as Trustee.
Section 9.11. Merger or Consolidation. Any company into which any Fiduciary may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any company resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which it shall be a party or any company to which any Fiduciary may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust business, provided such company shall be a bank with trust powers or trust company organized under the laws of any state of the United States or a national banking association and shall be authorized by law to perform all the duties imposed upon it by this Indenture and shall meet the qualifications set forth in Section 9.09(c), shall be the successor to such Fiduciary without the execution or filing of any paper or the performance of any further act.
Section 9.12. Adoption of Authentication. In case any of the Bonds contemplated to be issued under this Indenture shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any successor Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee so authenticating such Bonds and deliver such Bonds so authenticated; and in case any of the said Bonds shall not have been authenticated, any successor Trustee may authenticate such Bonds in the name of the successor Trustee, and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is provided, anywhere in said Bonds or in this Indenture, that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
Section 9.13. Resignation or Removal of Paying Agent and Appointment of Successor. (a) Any Paying Agent may at any time resign and be discharged of the duties and obligations created by this Indenture by giving at least 60 days’ written notice to the Issuer, the Trustee and the other Paying Agents. Any Paying Agent may be removed at any time by an instrument filed with such Paying Agent and the Trustee and signed by an Authorized Officer. Any successor Item 2
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Paying Agent shall be appointed by the Issuer and shall be a bank or trust company organized under the laws of any state of the United States or a national banking association, having capital stock, surplus and undivided earnings aggregating at least $50,000,000, and willing and able to accept the office on reasonable and customary terms and authorized by law to perform all the duties imposed upon it by this Indenture.
(b) In the event of the resignation or removal of any Paying Agent, such Paying Agent shall pay over, assign and deliver any moneys held by it as Paying Agent to its successor, at the reasonable cost and expense of the Issuer to the extent such Paying Agent is not acting as the Trustee at the time of such resignation or removal, or if there be no successor, to the Trustee. In the event that for any reason there shall be a vacancy in the office of any Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such Paying Agent.
Section 9.14. Trustee’s Reliance. In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, and shall be protected in acting upon any notice, direction, ordinance, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond, statement, facsimilie transmission, electronic mail or other paper or document furnished to the Trustee pursuant to any provision of this Indenture and that is believed by the Trustee to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties and in conformity with the formal requirements of this Indenture. The Trustee may consult with any consultant, account, or counsel, who may or may not be counsel to the Issuer, and the opinion of such consultant, accountant, or counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered by Trustee under this Indenture in good faith and in accordance therewith. The Trustee shall be under no duty to make any investigation or inquiry into any statements contained or matters referred to in any such instrument. Any request, direction, authority or consent given by the Holders of any Bond shall be conclusive and binding upon all Holders of the same Bond and any Bond issued in its place.
Section 9.15. Trustee’s Liability. (a) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Bonds, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or, except for its negligence or willful misconduct, exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Bonds. In no event shall the Trustee be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages or penalties (including, but not limited to, lost profits). (b) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of an Event of Default except for those Events of Default in Sections 8.1(a) and (b) unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge of such Event of Default. As used herein, “actual knowledge” shall mean the actual fact or statement of knowing without any independent duty to make any investigation with regard thereto.
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granted herein to the Trustee shall extend to the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Trustee.
(d) Whenever in the administration of the trusts imposed upon it by this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a Written Certificate of the Issuer, and such Written Certificate shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or suffered in good faith under the provisions of this Indenture in reliance upon such Written Instrument, but in its discretion the Trustee may, in lieu thereof, accept other evidence of such matter or may require such additional evidence as it may deem reasonable. (e) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in connection with the performance or exercise of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. (f) The Trustee shall not be responsible for any recital in this Indenture or on the Bonds (except with respect to the certificate of the Trustee endorsed on the Bonds) or for insuring any property conveyed or collecting any insurance monies, or for the validity of the execution by the Issuer of this Indenture or of any supplements hereto, or instruments of further assurance, or for the sufficiency of the security for the Bonds, or for the investment of monies as herein permitted (except that no investment shall be made except in compliance with Section 6.02 and Section 6.03 hereof), or for the recording or re-recording, filing or re-filing of this Indenture, or any supplement or amendment thereto, or of any Supplemental Indentures or instruments of further assurance, or for the sufficiency of the security for the Bonds issued hereunder or intended to be secured hereby, or for the value or title of the property herein conveyed or otherwise as to the maintenance of the security hereof. Except as specifically provided in this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be bound to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any covenants, conditions, or agreements on the part of the Issuer, but the Trustee may require of the Issuer full information and advice as to the performance of such covenants. The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of the said trusts and powers. Under no circumstances shall the Trustee in any of its capacities hereunder be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance of this Bond or in respect of any undertakings by the Trustee under this Indenture. In accepting the trust hereby created, the Trustee acts solely as Trustee for the holders of the Bonds and not in its individual capacity, and all persons, including without limitation the holders of the Bonds and the Issuer, having any claim against the Trustee arising from this Indenture shall look only to the Funds and Accounts held by the Trustee hereunder for payment except as otherwise provided herein.
(g) To the extent permitted by law, the Issuer shall indemnify the Trustee for, and hold it harmless against, any loss, damage, claim, liability or expense incurred by it, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder or the performance of any of its duties hereunder, except to the extent that any such loss, damage, claim, liability or expense was due to Trustee’s own negligence or willful misconduct.
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(h) The Trustee shall have no responsibility with respect to any information, statement, or recital in any official statement, offering memorandum or other disclosure material prepared or distributed with respect to the Bonds.
Section 9.16. Trustee’s Agents or Attorneys. The Trustee may execute any of its trusts or powers under this Indenture or perform any of its duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees appointed with due care, and shall not be responsible for any willful misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, attorney, custodian or nominee so appointed.
Section 9.17. Notice of Lien Filings. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be responsible for any initial filings of any financing statements or the information contained therein (including the exhibits thereto), the perfection of any such security interests, or the accuracy or sufficiency of any description of collateral in such initial filings or for filing any modifications or amendments to the initial filings required by any amendments to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, if applicable. In addition, unless the Trustee shall have received Written Notice from the Issuer that any such initial filing or description of collateral was or has become defective, the Trustee shall be fully protected (i) in relying on such initial filing and descriptions in filing any financing or continuation statements or modifications thereto pursuant to this Section 9.17 and (ii) in filing any continuation statements in the same filing offices as the initial filings were made. If applicable, the Trustee shall, upon the prior Written Direction of the Issuer, cause to be filed, in accordance with such instructions, a continuation statement with respect to each Uniform Commercial Code financing statement relating to the Bonds which was filed at the time of the issuance thereof, for which the Issuer has directed a continuation statement to be filed, in such manner and in such places as the initial filings were made, provided that a copy of the filed original financing statement is timely delivered with such Written Direction of the Issuer to the Trustee. The Issuer shall be responsible for the reasonable costs incurred by the Trustee in the preparation and filing of all continuation statements hereunder, including payment of any filing fees, and shall give the Trustee any assistance it reasonably requests in order to enable the Trustee to file continuation statements for the lien established by this Indenture.
ARTICLE X
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 10.01. Supplemental Indentures Not Requiring Consent of Bondholders. The Issuer and the Trustee may from time to time, subject to the conditions and restrictions in this Indenture contained, enter into a Supplemental Indenture or Indentures, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, which shall thereafter form a part hereof, without the consent of the Bondholders for any one or more of the following purposes:
(a) To cure any ambiguity, supply any omission, or cure or correct any defect or inconsistent provision in this Indenture;
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(b) To insert such provisions clarifying matters or questions arising under this Indenture as are necessary or desirable and are not contrary to or inconsistent with this Indenture as theretofore in effect;
(c) To make any other modification or amendment of this Indenture which the Trustee shall in its sole discretion determine will not have a material adverse effect on the Bondholders or the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty; and in making such a determination, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon an Opinion of Counsel and/or certificates of investment bankers or other financial professionals or consultants;
(d) To add to the covenants and agreements of the Issuer in this Indenture, other covenants and agreements to be observed by the Issuer which are not contrary to or inconsistent with this Indenture as theretofore in effect;
(e) To add to the limitations and restrictions in this Indenture, other limitations and restrictions to be observed by the Issuer which are not contrary to or inconsistent with this Indenture as theretofore in effect;
(f) To authorize the issuance of Refunding Bonds;
(g) To authorize, in compliance with all applicable law, Bonds to be issued in the form of coupon Bonds registrable as to principal only and, in connection therewith, specify and determine the matters and things relative to the issuance of such coupon Bonds, including provisions relating to the timing and manner of provision of any notice required to be given hereunder to the Holders of such coupon Bonds, which are not contrary to or inconsistent with this Indenture as theretofore in effect, or to amend, modify or rescind any such authorization, specification or determination at any time prior to the first authentication and delivery of such coupon Bonds;
(h) To provide for the execution of a Commodity Swap in accordance with the provisions hereof;
(i) To provide for a Liquidity Facility and Liquidity Facility Provider in accordance with the provisions hereof;
(j) To confirm, as further assurance, any security interest, pledge or assignment under, and the subjection to any security interest, pledge or assignment created or to be created by, this Indenture of the Revenues or of any other moneys, securities or funds; (k) To add to the Events of Default in this Indenture additional Events of Default; (l) To add to this Indenture any provisions relating to the application of interest earnings on any Fund or Account under this Indenture required by law to preserve the exclusion of interest on Bonds issued from gross income for federal income tax purposes; (m) To evidence the appointment of a successor Trustee; or Item 2
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(n) If the Bonds affected by such change are rated by a Rating Agency, to make any change upon receipt of a Rating Confirmation with respect to the Bonds so affected.
Each Supplemental Indenture authorized by this Section shall become effective as of the date of its execution and delivery by the Issuer and the Trustee or such later date as shall be specified in such Supplemental Indenture.
A Supplemental Indenture will be deemed to not materially adversely affect the Holders of any Bonds that are subject to mandatory tender on or before the effective date of the Supplemental Indenture.
Section 10.02. Supplemental Indentures Effective With Consent of Bondholders. At any time or from time to time, subject to Section 10.03(e) and Section 11.05(b), a Supplemental Indenture may be entered into by the Issuer and the Trustee subject to notice to and consent by Bondholders in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Article XI, which Supplemental Indenture, upon compliance with the provisions of said Article XI, shall become fully effective in accordance with its terms as provided in said Article XI.
Section 10.03. General Provisions. (a) This Indenture shall not be modified or amended in any respect except as provided in and in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Article X and Article XI. Nothing contained in this Article X or Article XI shall affect or limit the right or obligation of the Issuer to adopt, make, do, execute, acknowledge or deliver any resolution, act or other instrument pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.04 or the right or obligation of the Issuer to execute and deliver to any Fiduciary any instrument which elsewhere in this Indenture it is provided shall be delivered to said Fiduciary.
(b) Any Supplemental Indenture referred to and permitted or authorized by Section 10.01 may be entered into between the Issuer and the Trustee without the consent of any of the Bondholders, but shall become effective only on the conditions, to the extent and at the time provided in said Section. A copy of every Supplemental Indenture shall be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel stating that such Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and is valid and binding upon the Issuer; provided, that such Opinion of Counsel may take customary exceptions, including as to the effect of, or for restrictions or limitations imposed by or resulting from, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, debt adjustment, moratorium, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, the application of equitable principles, the exercise of judicial discretion, limitations on legal remedies against public entities in the State, and the valid exercise of the sovereign police powers of the State and of the constitutional power of the United States of America and may state that no opinion is being rendered as to the availability of any particular remedy.
(c) The Trustee is hereby authorized to enter into any Supplemental Indenture referred to and permitted or authorized by Section 10.01 or Section 10.02 and to make all further agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained, and the Trustee, in taking such action, shall be fully protected in relying on an Opinion of Counsel that such Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted by the provisions of this Indenture.
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(d) No Supplemental Indenture shall change or modify any of the rights or obligations of any Fiduciary without its written assent thereto; provided, however this section shall not affect the rights of the Holders or the Issuer to remove the Trustee as provided in Section 9.08 herein. (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Article X to the contrary, no Supplemental Indenture (or other amendment to this Indenture) shall change or modify (i) the order of priority of deposits set forth in Section 5.05(a), (ii) the priority of the application of funds following an Event of Default as set forth in Section 8.03, (iii) the definition of Operating Expenses, (iv) any of the rights or interests of a Commodity Swap Counterparty, the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty (if any) or the Energy Supplier, as purchaser under the Receivables Purchase Provisions, granted herein or in the Commodity Swaps, any Interest Rate Swap or the Receivables Purchase Provisions, as the case may be, or (v) the provisions of Section 5.04(b) regarding the sale by the Trustee of Put Receivables (A) in each case unless the prior written consent of the applicable Commodity Swap Counterparty has been obtained, and such Commodity Swap Counterparty shall have full right to enforce this provision, and (B) in the case of clause (iv) of this Section 10.03(e), unless the prior written consent of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty and/or the Energy Supplier, as applicable, has been obtained.
ARTICLE XI
AMENDMENTS
Section 11.01. Mailing. Any provision in this Article XI for the mailing of a notice or other paper to Bondholders shall be fully complied with if it is mailed postage prepaid only (a) to each registered owner of Bonds then Outstanding at its address, if any, appearing upon the registry books of the Issuer, and (b) to the Trustee.
Section 11.02. Powers of Amendment. Any modification or amendment of this Indenture and of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and of the Holders of the Bonds thereunder may be made by a Supplemental Indenture, subject to Section 10.03(e), with the written consent given as provided in Section 11.03(a) of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Bonds, and (b) in case the modification or amendment changes the terms of any Sinking Fund Installment, of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Bonds of the particular maturity entitled to such Sinking Fund Installment; provided, however, that if such modification or amendment will, by its terms, not take effect so long as any Bonds of any specified like maturity remain Outstanding (or have become subject to mandatory purchase) the consent of the Holders of such Bonds shall not be required and such Bonds shall not be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of any calculation of Outstanding Bonds under this Section; and provided further, however, that if such modification or amendment would adversely affect the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty, such modification or amendment shall be subject to the prior written consent of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty. No such modification or amendment shall permit a change in the terms of redemption or maturity of the principal of any Outstanding Bond or of any installment of interest thereon or a reduction in the principal amount or the Redemption Price thereof or in the rate of interest thereon without the consent of the Holder of such Bond, or shall reduce the percentages or otherwise affect the classes of Bonds the consent of the Holders of which is required to effect any such modification or amendment, or shall change or modify any of the rights or obligations of any Fiduciary without its written assent thereto. For Item 2
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the purposes of this Section, the Bonds shall be deemed to be affected by a modification or amendment of this Indenture if the same adversely affects or diminishes the rights of the Holders of Bonds in any material respect. The Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not in accordance with the foregoing powers of amendment Bonds would be materially affected by any modification or amendment of this Indenture and any such determination shall be binding and conclusive on the Issuer and all Holders of Bonds. For purposes of this Section, the Holders of any Bonds may include the initial Holders thereof, regardless of whether such Bonds are being held for resale.
Section 11.03. Consent of Bondholders. The Issuer and the Trustee may at any time enter into a Supplemental Indenture making a modification or amendment permitted by the provisions of Section 11.02 to take effect when and as provided in this Section 11.03. A copy of such Supplemental Indenture (or brief summary thereof or reference thereto in form approved by the Trustee), together with a request to Bondholders for their consent thereto in form satisfactory to the Trustee, shall be mailed by the Issuer to Bondholders (but failure to mail such copy and request shall not affect the validity of the Supplemental Indenture when consented to as in this Section 11.03 provided). Such Supplemental Indenture shall not be effective unless and until there shall have been filed with the Trustee (a) the written consents of Holders of the percentages of Outstanding Bonds specified in Section 11.02, subject to Section 11.05(b), (b) the written consent of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty if required by Section 11.02, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel stating that such Supplemental Indenture has been duly and lawfully executed by the Issuer in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and is valid and binding upon the Issuer; provided, that such Opinion(s) of Counsel may take customary exceptions, including as to the effect of, or for restrictions or limitations imposed by or resulting from, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, debt adjustment, moratorium, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, the application of equitable principles, the exercise of judicial discretion, limitations on legal remedies against public entities in the State, and the valid exercise of the sovereign police powers of the State and of the constitutional power of the United States of America and may state that no opinion is being rendered as to the availability of any particular remedy. For purposes of clause (a) of the preceding sentence, the written consent of the Bondholder shall be deemed to have been received if the amendment is expressly referred to in the Supplemental Indenture authorizing such Bonds and in the text of such Bonds and such Bonds recite that such Bondholder shall be deemed to have consented to such amendments by accepting such Bonds. Otherwise, each such consent shall be effective only if accompanied by proof of the holding, at the date of such consent, of the Bonds with respect to which such consent is given, which proof shall be such as is permitted by Section 12.02. A certificate or certificates executed by the Trustee and filed with the Trustee and the Issuer stating that it has examined such proof and that such proof is sufficient in accordance with Section 12.02 shall be conclusive that the consents have been given by the Holders of the Bonds described in such certificate or certificates of the Trustee. Any such consent shall be irrevocable and shall be binding upon the Holder of the Bonds giving such consent and, anything in Section 12.02 to the contrary notwithstanding, upon any subsequent Holder of such Bonds and of any Bonds issued in exchange therefor (whether or not such subsequent Holder thereof has notice of such consent). At any time after the Holders of the required percentages of Bonds shall have filed their consents to the Supplemental Indenture (or have deemed to have consented to such Supplemental Indenture), the Trustee shall make and file with the Trustee and the Issuer a written statement that the Holders of such required percentages Item 2
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of Bonds have consented to, such Supplemental Indenture. Such written statements shall be conclusive that such consents have been received. At any time thereafter, notice stating in substance that the Supplemental Indenture (which may be referred to as a Supplemental Indenture entered into by the Issuer and the Trustee on a stated date, a copy of which is on file with the Trustee) has been consented to by the Holders of the required percentages of Bonds and will be effective as provided in this Section 11.03, may be given to Bondholders by the Trustee by mailing such notice to Bondholders (but failure to mail such notice shall not prevent such Supplemental Indenture from becoming effective and binding as in this Section 11.03 provided). A record, consisting of the certificates or statements required or permitted by this Section 11.03 to be made by the Trustee, shall be proof of the matters therein stated.
Section 11.04. Notifications by Unanimous Consent. The terms and provisions of this Indenture and the rights and obligations of the Issuer and of the Holders of the Bonds thereunder may be modified or amended in any respect upon the execution of a Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee and the Issuer, the consent of the Holders of all of the Bonds then Outstanding (such consent to be given as provided in Section 11.03), and the consent of the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty if required by Section 11.02; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment shall change or modify any of the rights or obligations of any Fiduciary or any of the provisions referenced in Section 10.03(e) without the filing with the Trustee of the written assent thereto of such Fiduciary or the applicable Commodity Swap Counterparty, respectively, in addition to the consent of the Bondholders.
Section 11.05. Exclusion of Bonds. (a) Bonds owned or held by or for the account of the Issuer shall not be deemed Outstanding for the purpose of consent or other action or any calculation of Outstanding Bonds provided for in this Article XI, and the Issuer shall not be entitled with respect to such Bonds to give any consent or take any other action provided for in this Article XI.
At the time of any consent or other action taken under this Article XI, the Issuer shall furnish the Trustee a certificate of an Authorized Officer, upon which the Trustee may rely, describing all Bonds so to be excluded.
(b) Bonds for which a Bondholder has submitted a notice of abstention in response to a request for consent received pursuant to Section 11.03 shall not be deemed Outstanding for the purpose of consent or other action or any calculation of Outstanding Bonds provided for in this Article XI with respect to any Supplemental Indenture to be entered into by the Issuer and the Trustee; provided, that, such notice of abstention shall not apply with respect to any proposed amendments of Section 8.01.
Section 11.06. Notation on Bonds. Bonds authenticated and delivered after the effective date of any action taken as provided in Article X or this Article XI may, and, if the Trustee so determines, shall, bear a notation by endorsement or otherwise in form approved by the Issuer and the Trustee as to such action, and in that case upon demand of the Holder of any Bond Outstanding at such effective date and presentation of its Bond for the purpose at the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee or upon any transfer or exchange of any Bond Outstanding at such effective date, suitable notation shall be made on such Bond or upon any Bond issued upon any such transfer or exchange by the Trustee as to any such action. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new Bonds so modified as in the opinion of the Trustee and the Issuer to conform to such action shall be prepared, authenticated and delivered, and upon demand of the Holder of any Bond then Item 2
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Outstanding shall be exchanged, without cost to such Bondholder, for Bonds of the same maturity then Outstanding, upon surrender of such Bonds.
ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 12.01. Defeasance. (a) If the Issuer shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holders of all Bonds the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated in the Bonds and in this Indenture and shall pay or cause to be paid all amounts due or to become due to the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap, then the pledge of all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the Issuer to the Bondholders, shall thereupon cease, terminate and be discharged and satisfied except for remaining rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Bonds; provided, however, that this Indenture shall not be discharged until (i) the Issuer shall have paid and satisfied all claims, charges and expenses that constitute Operating Expenses hereunder, (ii) the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that all conditions precedent to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been fulfilled and (iii) receipt by the Trustee of a Rating Confirmation. In such event, the Trustee shall cause an accounting for such period or periods as shall be requested by the Issuer to be prepared and filed with the Issuer and, upon the request of the Issuer, shall execute and deliver to the Issuer all such instruments as may be desirable to evidence such discharge and satisfaction, and the Fiduciaries shall pay over or deliver to the Issuer all moneys or securities held by them pursuant to this Indenture which are not required for the payment of principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, on Bonds not theretofore surrendered for such payment or redemption. If the Issuer shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holders of any Outstanding Bonds the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Indenture, such Bonds shall cease to be entitled to any lien, benefit or security under this Indenture, and all covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer to the Holders of such Bonds shall thereupon cease, terminate and be discharged and satisfied except for remaining rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Bonds.
(b) Bonds or interest installments for the payment or redemption of which moneys shall have been set aside and shall be held in trust by the Paying Agents (through deposit by the Issuer of funds for such payment or redemption or otherwise) at the maturity or redemption date thereof shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in subsection (a). In addition, any Outstanding Bonds shall prior to the maturity or redemption date thereof be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in subsection (a) upon compliance with the provisions of subsection (c). (c) Subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section, any Outstanding Bonds shall prior to the maturity or redemption date thereof be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in subsection (a) of this Section if (i) in case any of said Bonds are to be redeemed on any date prior to their maturity, the Issuer shall have given to the Trustee irrevocable written instructions accepted in writing by the Trustee to mail as provided in Article IV notice of redemption of such Bonds (other than Bonds which have been purchased by Item 2
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the Trustee at the direction of the Issuer or purchased or otherwise acquired by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee as hereinafter provided prior to the mailing of such notice of redemption) on said date, (ii) there shall have been deposited with the Trustee either moneys (including moneys withdrawn and deposited pursuant to Section 5.07(g)) in an amount which shall be sufficient, or Defeasance Securities (including any Defeasance Securities issued or held in book entry form on the books of the Department of the Treasury of the United States) the principal of and the interest on which when due will provide moneys which, together with the moneys, if any, deposited with the Trustee at the same time, shall be sufficient, to pay when due the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest due and to become due on said Bonds (with such interest being calculated at the Maximum Rate with respect to any Bonds with interest rates that are not fixed to their redemption or maturity date, as applicable) on or prior to the redemption date or maturity date thereof, as the case may be, and (iii) in the event said Bonds are not by their terms subject to redemption within the next succeeding 60 days, the Issuer shall have given the Trustee in form satisfactory to it irrevocable written instructions to mail, as soon as practicable, a notice to the Holders of such Bonds at their last addresses appearing upon the registry books at the close of business on the last Business Day of the month preceding the month for which notice is mailed that the deposit required by (ii) above has been made with the Trustee and that said Bonds are deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 and stating such maturity or redemption date upon which moneys are expected, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section 12.01, to be available for the payment of the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, on said Bonds (other than Bonds which have been purchased by the Trustee at the direction of the Issuer or purchased or otherwise acquired by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee as hereinafter provided prior to the mailing of the notice of redemption referred to in clause (i)).
Any notice of redemption mailed pursuant to the preceding sentence with respect to Bonds which constitute less than all of the Outstanding Bonds of any maturity shall specify the letter and number or other distinguishing mark of each such Bond. The Trustee shall, as and to the extent necessary, apply moneys held by it pursuant to this Section 12.01 to the retirement of said Bonds in amounts equal to the unsatisfied balances (determined as provided in Section 5.10(c)) of any Sinking Fund Installments with respect to such Bonds, all in the manner provided in this Indenture. The Trustee shall, if so directed by the Issuer (A) prior to the maturity date of Bonds deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 which are not to be redeemed prior to their maturity date or (B) prior to the mailing of the notice of redemption referred to in clause (i) above with respect to any Bonds deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 which are to be redeemed on any date prior to their maturity, apply moneys deposited with the Trustee in respect of such Bonds and redeem or sell Defeasance Securities so deposited with the Trustee and apply the proceeds thereof to the purchase of such Bonds and, the Trustee shall immediately thereafter cancel all such Bonds so purchased; provided, however, that the moneys and Defeasance Securities remaining on deposit with the Trustee after the purchase and cancellation of such Bonds (or the deemed cancellation thereof) shall be sufficient to pay when due the Principal Installment or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest due or to become due on all Bonds (calculated as described above), in respect of which such moneys and Defeasance Securities are being held by the Trustee on or prior to the redemption date or maturity date thereof, as the case may be. If, at any time (1) prior to the maturity date of Bonds deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 which are not to be redeemed prior to their maturity date or (2) prior to the mailing of the notice of redemption referred to in clause (i) with respect to any Bonds deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 which are to be redeemed on any date prior to their Item 2
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maturity, the Issuer shall purchase or otherwise acquire any such Bonds and deliver such Bonds to the Trustee prior to their maturity date or redemption date, as the case may be, the Trustee shall immediately cancel all such Bonds so delivered; such delivery of Bonds to the Trustee shall be accompanied by written directions from the Issuer to the Trustee as to the manner in which such Bonds are to be applied against the obligation of the Trustee to pay or redeem Bonds deemed paid in accordance with this Section 12.01. The directions given by the Issuer to the Trustee referred to in the preceding sentences shall also specify the portion, if any, of such Bonds so purchased or delivered and cancelled or deemed cancelled to be applied against the obligation of the Trustee to pay Bonds deemed paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 upon their maturity date or dates and the portion, if any, of such Bonds so purchased or delivered and cancelled or deemed cancelled to be applied against the obligation of the Trustee to redeem Bonds deemed paid in accordance with this Section 12.01 on any date or dates prior to their maturity. In the event that on any date as a result of any purchases, acquisitions and cancellations or deemed cancellations of Bonds as provided in this Section 12.01 the total amount of moneys and Defeasance Securities remaining on deposit with the Trustee under this Section 12.01 is in excess of the total amount which would have been required to be deposited with the Trustee on such date in respect of the remaining Bonds in order to satisfy clause (ii) of this subsection (c) of Section 12.01, the Trustee shall, if requested by the Issuer in writing, pay the amount of such excess to the Issuer free and clear of any trust, lien, security interest, pledge or assignment securing said Bonds or otherwise existing under this Indenture. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d) of this Section 12.01, neither Defeasance Securities nor moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to this Section nor principal or interest payments on any such Defeasance Securities shall be withdrawn or used for any purpose other than, and shall be held in trust for, the payment of the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest on said Bonds; provided that any cash received from such principal or interest payments on such Defeasance Securities deposited with the Trustee, (x) to the extent such cash will not be required at any time for such purpose, shall be paid over to the Issuer as received by the Trustee, free and clear of any trust, lien or pledge securing said Bonds or otherwise existing under this Indenture, and (y) to the extent such cash will be required for such purpose at a later date, shall, to the extent practicable, be reinvested in Qualified Investments maturing at times and in amounts sufficient to pay when due the principal or Redemption Price, if applicable, and interest to become due on said Bonds on or prior to such redemption date or maturity date thereof, as the case may be, and interest earned from such reinvestments shall be paid over to the Issuer, as received by the Trustee, free and clear of any trust, lien, security interest, pledge or assignment securing said Bonds or otherwise existing under this Indenture. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Issuer shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against Defeasance Securities or the principal and interest received on Defeasance Securities.
(d) Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any moneys held by a Fiduciary in trust for the payment and discharge of any of the Bonds which remain unclaimed for six years (or, if shorter, one Business Day before such moneys would escheat to the State under then applicable State law) after the date when such Bonds have become due and payable, either at their stated maturity dates or by call for earlier redemption, if such moneys were held by the Fiduciary at such date, or for six years after the date of deposit of such moneys if deposited with the Fiduciary after the said date when such Bonds became due and payable, shall, at the Written Request of the Issuer, be repaid by the Fiduciary to the Issuer, as its absolute property and free from trust, and the Fiduciary shall thereupon be released and discharged with respect thereto and Item 2
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the Bondholders shall look only to the Issuer for the payment of such Bonds; provided, however, that before being required to make any such payment to the Issuer the Fiduciary shall, at the expense of the Issuer, cause to be published at least twice, at an interval of not less than seven days between publications, in the Authorized Newspaper, a notice that said moneys remain unclaimed and that, after a date named in said notice, which date shall be not less than 30 days after the date of the first publication of such notice, the balance of such moneys then unclaimed will be returned to the Issuer.
Section 12.02. Evidence of Signatures of Bondholders and Ownership of Bonds. (a) Any request, consent, revocation of consent or other instrument which this Indenture may require or permit to be signed and executed by the Bondholders may be in one or more instruments of similar tenor, and, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.03, shall be signed or executed by such Bondholders in person or by their attorneys appointed in writing. Proof of (1) the execution of any such instrument, or of an instrument appointing any such attorney, or (2) the holding by any Person of the Bonds shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture (except as otherwise therein expressly provided) if made in the following manner, or in any other manner satisfactory to the Trustee, which may nevertheless in its discretion require further or other proof in cases where it deems the same desirable:
(i) The fact and date of the execution by any Bondholder or its attorney of such instruments may be proved by a guarantee of the signature thereon by a bank or trust company or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, that the Person signing such request or other instrument acknowledged to him the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness of such execution, duly sworn to before such notary public or other officer. Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation or association or a member of a partnership, on behalf of such corporation, association or partnership, such signature, guarantee, certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of its authority. (ii) The amount of Bonds transferable by delivery held by any Person executing any instrument as a Bondholder, the date of holding such Bonds, and the numbers and other identification thereof, may be proved by a certificate, which need not be acknowledged or verified, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed by the Trustee or by a member of a financial firm or by an officer of a bank, trust company, insurance company, or financial corporation or other depository wherever situated, showing at the date therein mentioned that such Person exhibited to such member or officer or had on deposit with such depository the Bonds described in such certificate. Such certificate may be given by a member of a financial firm or by an officer of any bank, trust company, insurance company or financial corporation or depository with respect to Bonds owned by it, if acceptable to the Trustee.
In addition to the foregoing provisions, the Trustee may from time to time make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable permitting other proof of holding of Bonds transferable by delivery.
(b) The ownership of Bonds registered other than to bearer and the amount, numbers and other identification, and date of holding the same shall be proved by the registry books.
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(c) Any request or consent by the owner of any Bond shall bind all future owners of such Bond in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the Issuer or any Fiduciary in accordance therewith.
Section 12.03. Moneys Held for Particular Bonds. The amounts held by any Fiduciary for the payment of the interest, principal or Redemption Price due on any date with respect to particular Bonds shall, on and after such date and pending such payment, be set aside on its books and held in trust by it for the Holders of the Bonds entitled thereto.
Section 12.04. Preservation and Inspection of Documents. All documents received by any Fiduciary under the provisions of this Indenture shall be retained in its possession and shall at all times during regular business hours (upon reasonable prior written notice) be subject to the inspection of the Issuer, any other Fiduciary, and any Bondholder and their agents and their representatives, any of whom may make copies thereof, subject to such reasonable regulations as such Fiduciary may from time to time determine to be advisable or required by law.
Section 12.05. Parties Interested Herein. Nothing in this Indenture expressed or implied, except for the rights and interests of the Commodity Swap Counterparties, the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty (if any) and the Energy Supplier, as purchaser under the Receivables Purchase Provisions, as described in Section 10.03(e), and the pledges of the Commodity Swap Payment Fund granted to the Commodity Swap Counterparties, is intended or shall be construed to confer upon, or to give to, any Person or corporation, other than the Issuer, the Fiduciaries, the Holders of the Bonds, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Indenture or any covenant, condition or stipulation thereof; and, except as provided in Section 10.03(e), all the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by and on behalf of the Issuer shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Issuer, the Fiduciaries, the Holders of the Bonds and the Interest Rate Swap Counterparty.
Section 12.06. No Recourse on the Bonds; Non-Liability of the Issuer. No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Bonds or for any claim based thereon or on this Indenture against any source other than the Trust Estate as provided in this Indenture, including against any member of the board or officer of the Issuer, the Project Participants or any Person executing the Bonds. The Issuer shall not be obligated to pay the principal or Redemption Price or Purchase Price of or interest on the Bonds, the Interest Rate Swap Payments or the Commodity Swap Payments, except from the Trust Estate as provided in this Indenture. Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or any political subdivision thereof, including the Issuer, is pledged to the payment of the principal or Redemption Price of or interest on the Bonds, the Interest Rate Swap Payments or Commodity Swap Payments. The Issuer shall not be liable for any costs, expenses, losses, damages, claims or actions, of any conceivable kind on any conceivable theory, under or by reason of or in connection with the Bonds, this Indenture, the Interest Rate Swap or the Commodity Swaps except only to the extent of the Trust Estate as provided in this Indenture.
Section 12.07. Publication of Notice; Suspension of Publication. (a) Any publication to be made under the provisions of this Indenture in successive weeks or on successive dates may be made in each instance upon any Business Day of the week and need not be made in the same Item 2
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Authorized Newspaper for any or all of the successive publications but may be made in a different Authorized Newspaper.
(b) If, because of the temporary or permanent suspension of the publication or general circulation of any Authorized Newspaper or for any other reason, it is impossible or impractical to publish any notice pursuant to this Indenture in the manner herein provided, then such publication in lieu thereof as shall be made by the Issuer with the written approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.
Section 12.08. Severability of Invalid Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants or agreements provided in this Indenture on the part of the Issuer or any Fiduciary to be performed should be contrary to law, then such covenant or covenants or agreement or agreements shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants and agreements, and shall in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this Indenture.
Section 12.09. Holidays. If the date for making any payment or the last date for performance of any act or the exercising of any right, as provided in this Indenture, shall not be a Business Day, such payment may be made or act performed or right exercised on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if done on the nominal date provided in this Indenture, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such nominal date.
Section 12.10. Notices. (a) Except as otherwise provided herein, all notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted under this Indenture shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered or mailed, first class, postage prepaid (or sent by Electronic Means, confirmed by mail, as aforesaid), as follows:
If to the Issuer: California Community Choice Financing Authority 1125 Tamalpais Avenue
San Rafael, California 94901
Attention: Treasurer/Controller
Telephone: (415) 464-6037
Email: Series2025[_]@cccfa.org and [email protected]
With a copy to:
Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority
333 W. El Camino Real Suite 330
Sunnyvale, California 94087
Attention: Monica Padilla, CEO
Telephone: [____]
If to the Trustee, Paying
Agent, the Bond Registrar,
the Custodian or the
Calculation Agent for the
Index Rate Bonds:
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
333 South Hope Street, Suite 2525
Telephone: (213) 630-6407
Attention: Fanny Chen, Vice President
Email: [email protected]
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If to the Calculation Agent
for Bonds bearing interest at
a CPI Index Rate:
Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Telephone: (212) 761-4000
Attention: [email protected]
With a copy to:
Morgan Stanley Energy Structuring, L.L.C.
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Telephone: [___]
Attention: [___]
or to such other Person or addresses as the respective party hereafter designates in writing to the Issuer and the Trustee.
(b) The Issuer may, by Written Direction to the Trustee, permit a Project Participant that is a Member to deliver to the Trustee on behalf of the Issuer any notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted to be delivered by the Issuer under this Indenture.
Such Written Direction shall contain a certificate identifying the Authorized Officers of such Project Participant for purposes of delivery of notices under this Indenture. The Trustee shall treat all such notices received from the Project Participant as if they were delivered by the Issuer, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, in which case any notices from such Project Participant shall be disregarded by the Trustee and of no force or effect. The Issuer may at any time rescind and annul the Written Direction permitting such Project Participant to deliver notices hereunder on behalf of the Issuer by delivering a Written Direction to the Trustee stating that such permission has been rescinded and annulled.
Section 12.11. Notices to Rating Agencies. The Issuer shall provide to each Rating Agency rating the Bonds at the time notice of any amendment to this Indenture, the Energy Purchase Agreement, any Commodity Swaps, any Power Supply Contract, and Debt Service Fund Agreement or any other document relating to the Bonds or the Clean Energy Project.
Section 12.12. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be regarded for all purposes as an original; and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 12.13. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HEREBY KNOWINGLY,
VOLUNTARILY, AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY
IN RESPECT OF ANY PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY
MATTER IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO OR CONNECTED WITH THIS
INDENTURE OR ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS
CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, OR THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED
HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER, AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A JUDGE SITTING WITHOUT A JURY.
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Section 12.14. Electronic Signatures. Each of the parties hereto agrees that the transaction consisting of this agreement may be conducted by electronic means. Each party agrees, and acknowledges that it is such party’s intent, that if such party signs this agreement using an electronic signature, it is signing, adopting, and accepting this agreement and that signing this agreement using an electronic signature is the legal equivalent of having placed its handwritten signature on this agreement on paper. Each party acknowledges that it is being provided with an electronic or paper copy of this agreement in a usable format. [Signature page follows]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the California Community Choice Financing Authority has caused this Indenture to be signed in its own name and on its behalf by an Authorized Officer, and as evidence of its acceptance of the trusts hereby created, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the duly authorized Trustee, has caused this Indenture to be signed in its name and on its behalf by one of its officers duly authorized and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed, attested by another of its officers duly authorized, all as of the date first above written.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By:
Name: Garth Salisbury
Title: Treasurer/Controller
ATTEST:
By:
Name: Adrian Bankhead
Title: Secretary
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
Attesting Party
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF BONDS
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
REGISTERED
No. ____
REGISTERED
$_____
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY
CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT REVENUE BOND
SERIES 2025[_] (GREEN BONDS) ([TERM RATE])
MATURITY
DATE DATED DATE CUSIP
[INTEREST
RATE][APPLICABLE
SPREAD AND
APPLICABLE
FACTOR]
INTEREST
RATE MODE
[_________], 2025
REGISTERED OWNER: CEDE & CO.
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: _____________ DOLLARS
California Community Choice Financing Authority (the “Issuer”), a joint powers authority, organized and existing pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, Title 1, Division 7, Chapter 5 of the Government Code of the State of California (the “Act”), and the Joint Powers Agreement, dated June 25, 2021, as amended from time to time, for value received, hereby promises to pay in lawful money of the United States of America, to the Registered Owner identified above, or registered assigns, on the Maturity Date stated above, unless this Bond shall have been called for redemption (in whole or in part) and payment of the redemption price shall have been duly made or provided for, upon presentation and surrender hereof, the principal amount identified above, and to pay, in the manner and from the source hereinafter provided, to the Registered Owner hereof interest on the balance of said principal amount from time to time remaining unpaid at the rate determined as provided in the Indenture identified below, until payment in full of such principal amount. The initial Interest Rate Period, as defined in the Indenture, for this Bond is set out in the Item 2
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Indenture. The Interest Rate Period for this Bond may be changed from time to time as provided in the Indenture.
The following paragraph shall be inserted in the Series 2025[_] Bonds:
This Bond bears interest from the Dated Date specified above, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, at the rate per annum set forth above, computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 thirty-day months, payable on [__________] 1 and [_______] 1 of each year, commencing [_______] 1, 2025.
The following paragraph shall be inserted for any SIFMA Index Rate Bonds, and the phrase “SIFMA Index Rate” shall be inserted under the caption “Interest Rate” immediately below the title of such Bond:
This Bond bears interest from the Dated Date specified above, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, at a SIFMA Index Rate equal to the sum of (a) the SIFMA Index as of the day of determination plus (b) the Applicable Spread of [_________] basis points ([ ]%) (but not more than the Maximum Rate of 12% per annum),
computed on the basis of a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable, for the actual number of days elapsed and payable on the first Business Day of each Month, commencing on the first Business Day of [_________] 20[ ].
The following paragraph shall be inserted for any SOFR Index Rate Bonds, and the phrase “SOFR Index Rate” shall be inserted under the caption “Interest Rate” immediately below the title of such Bond:
This Bond bears interest from the Dated Date specified above, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, at a SOFR Index Rate equal to the sum of (a) the Applicable Spread of [_____] basis points ([_____]%) plus (b) the product of (i) the SOFR Index as of the day of determination multiplied by (ii) the Applicable Factor of [______]% (but not more than the Maximum Rate of 12% per annum),
computed on the basis of a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable, for the actual number of days elapsed and payable on the first Business Day of each Month, commencing on the first Business Day of [_________] 20[__].
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The following paragraph shall be inserted for any CPI Index Rate Bonds, and the phrase “CPI Index Rate” shall be inserted under the caption “Interest Rate” immediately below the title of such Bond:
This Bond bears interest from the Dated Date specified above, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, at a CPI Index Rate determined accordance with Section 2.14 of the Indenture (but not more than the Maximum Rate of 12% per annum), computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day calendar months and payable on the first Business Day of each Month, commencing on the first Business Day of [_________] 20[ ].
The Issuer is obligated to pay the principal, Redemption Price of, and interest on this Bond solely from the Trust Estate as defined in and in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, dated as of [__________], 2025, between the Issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (said trustee and any successor thereto under the Indenture being herein referred to as the “Trustee”), as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time (the “Indenture”).
This Bond is one of the Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds of the Issuer initially issued in a single series (collectively, the “Bonds”) under and by virtue of the Act and under and pursuant to the Indenture for the purpose of providing funds to pay the Cost of Acquisition of the Issuer’s Clean Energy Project. The aggregate principal amount of Bonds issued pursuant to the Indenture is limited to $[__]. This Bond is one of the Series of Bonds designated as “Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate]),” dated as of the Dated Date identified above. Except as otherwise provided herein and unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, words and phrases used herein shall have the same meanings as such words and phrases in the Indenture.
All Bonds are and will be equally and ratably secured by the pledge and covenants made in the Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or permitted in or pursuant to the Indenture.
THIS BOND IS A LIMITED OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER AND THE PRINCIPAL
AND REDEMPTION PRICE OF, AND INTEREST ON, THIS BOND ARE PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE TRUST ESTATE. THE BONDS DO NOT CONSTITUTE A DEBT OR
LIABILITY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA OR OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION
THEREOF, OTHER THAN THE ISSUER, BUT SHALL BE PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE FUNDS PROVIDED THEREFOR UNDER THE INDENTURE. THE ISSUER SHALL NOT BE
OBLIGATED TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL OR THE REDEMPTION PRICE OF OR INTEREST
ON THE BONDS EXCEPT FROM THE FUNDS PROVIDED THEREFOR UNDER THE
INDENTURE AND NEITHER THE FAITH AND CREDIT NOR THE TAXING POWER OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA OR OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF IS
PLEDGED TO THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OR REDEMPTION PRICE OF OR INTEREST ON THE BONDS. THE ISSUANCE OF THE BONDS SHALL NOT DIRECTLY
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ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF TO LEVY OR TO PLEDGE ANY FORM OF TAXATION OR TO MAKE ANY APPROPRIATION FOR THEIR PAYMENT. THE ISSUER HAS NO TAXING POWER.
Copies of the Indenture are on file at the office of the office of Trustee in Los Angeles, California, and reference to the Indenture and the Act is made for a description of the pledge and covenants securing the Bonds, the nature, manner and extent of enforcement of such pledge and covenants, the terms and conditions upon which the Bonds are issued, and a statement of the rights, duties, immunities and obligations of the Issuer and of the Trustee. Such pledge and other obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture may be discharged at or prior to the maturity or redemption of the Bonds upon the making of provision for the payment thereof on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture.
The Issuer has established a book-entry system of registration for the Bonds. Except as specifically provided otherwise in the Indenture, the Securities Depository will be the registered owner of this Bond. By acceptance of a confirmation of purchase, delivery or transfer, a Beneficial Owner shall be deemed to have agreed to this arrangement. The Securities Depository, as registered owner of this Bond, shall be treated as the Owner of it for all purposes.
The Issuer will pay the principal or Redemption Price of and interest on this Bond solely from the Trust Estate in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture. Interest will accrue on the unpaid portion of the principal of this Bond from the last Interest Payment Date for which interest has been paid or duly provided for or if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from the Dated Date of this Bond, until the entire principal amount of this Bond is paid or duly provided for, and such interest shall be paid in the manner and on the Interest Payment Dates specified in the Indenture.
This Bond may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Indenture.
To the extent and in the respects permitted by the Indenture, the Indenture may be modified or amended in the manner and subject to the conditions and exceptions prescribed in the Indenture.
Certain such modifications and amendments may be made without the consent of the Owners of the Bonds to the extent provided in the Indenture.
The Owner or Beneficial Owner of this Bond shall have no right to enforce the provisions of the Indenture or to institute action to enforce the pledge or covenants made therein or to take any action with respect to an Event of Default under the Indenture or to institute, appear in, or defend any suit or other proceeding with respect thereto, except as provided in the Indenture.
The Bonds are subject to tender or redemption prior to maturity upon the circumstances, at the times, in the amounts, upon payment of the amounts, with the notice, upon the other terms and provisions and with the effect set forth in the Indenture.
No director, officer, agent or employee of the Issuer shall be individually or personally liable for the payment of any principal or Redemption Price of or interest on the Bonds or any sum hereunder or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the execution and delivery of the Indenture.
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It is hereby certified and recited that all conditions, acts and things required by the Constitution or statutes of the State of California or by the Act or the Indenture to exist, to have happened or to have been performed precedent to or in the issuance of this Bond exist, have happened and have been performed in due time, form and manner, and that the issue of Bonds, together with all other indebtedness of the Issuer, is within every debt and other limit prescribed by said Constitution and statutes.
This Bond shall not be valid until the Certificate of Authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the California Community Choice Financing Authority has caused this Bond to be signed in its name and on its behalf by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chair, and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of its Secretary, all as of the Dated Date specified above.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By:
Chair
ATTEST:
Secretary
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[FORM OF TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION AND
REGISTRATION]
This Bond is one of the Bonds described in the within mentioned Indenture and is one of the Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate]), of California Community Choice Financing Authority.
Date of registration and authentication: [Closing Date], 2025.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
By:
Name
Title
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Bondholder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian) and U/T/M/A (= Uniform Transfers to Minors Act).
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of the within Bond, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM — as tenants in common UNIF TRAN MIN ACT
TEN ENT — as tenants by the entirety Custodian
JT TEN — as joint tenants with right (Cust) (Minor)
of survivorship and not as under Uniform Transfers to Minors Act of tenants in common
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in list above.
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[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]
For Value Received, the undersigned sells, assigns and transfers unto Please Insert Social Security or
Other Identifying Number of Assignee
(Name and Address of Assignee)
the within Bond of the California Community Choice Financing Authority, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints _________________________________________ attorney to transfer the said Bond on the books kept for registration thereof with full power of substitution in the premises.
Date:
SIGNATURE GUARANTEED:
NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Trustee, which requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Trustee in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Bond in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF INDEX RATE DETERMINATION CERTIFICATE
Re: California Community Choice Financing Authority Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_]-[__] (Green Bonds) ([SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate) (the “Bonds”) Reference is made to Section 2.09 [and Section 2.14] of the Trust Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2025 (the “Indenture”), between the California Community Choice Financing Authority (the “Issuer”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), relating to the above captioned Bonds. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
The undersigned Authorized Representative of the Issuer hereby notifies the Trustee and the Rating Agencies as follows with respect to the Index Rate Period commencing on the date hereof:
Include the following text separately for each Series of Index Rate Bonds:
(i) the Index Rate shall be the [SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate and the Index Rate Period shall be _________________;
(ii) if the Index Rate shall be the SOFR Index Rate, (A) the SOFR Index shall be the “Secured Overnight Financing Rate” reported on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or reported by any successor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as administrator of such Secured Overnight Financing Rate, as of 3:00 p.m. on each SOFR Publish Date representing the SOFR Index as of the third Business Day preceding the [Conversion Date][Index Rate Reset Date], which will be used to calculate interest for the SOFR Effective Period beginning on such [Conversion Date][Index Rate Reset Date] (the “SOFR Effective Date”) (for example, for purposes of determining the SOFR Index for a SOFR Effective Date of Thursday, __________, 20__, the Calculation Agent uses SOFR published on the SOFR Publish Date of Tuesday, __________, 20__, which is the SOFR Index for the SOFR Lookback Date of Monday, __________, 20__), and (B) the Applicable Factor, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be % of SOFR.
(iii) the Applicable Spread for each Maturity Date, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be as follows:
MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD (iv) if, during any [SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate Period, the [SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate is not reported by, or otherwise ceases to be available from, the relevant source, Item 2
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the substitute or replacement Index Rate, as determined by the Issuer, for the Index Rate Period shall be the substitute determined in writing by the Issuer; (v) the Index Rate Tender Date shall be ______________; (vi) the Interest Payment Date[s] shall be ______________; (vii) for a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SIFMA Index Rate, the Index Rate Reset Date[s] shall be [Thursday of each week, or if the SIFMA Index is not issued on Wednesday of such week, the Business Day next succeeding the day on which the SIFMA Index for such week is issued]; and
(viii) for a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SOFR Index Rate, the SOFR Effective Date shall be each Business Day.
Include the following text for any Series of CPI Bonds:
(i) the CPI Interest Period shall be ______________.
(ii) the Applicable Spread for each Maturity Date, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be as follows:
MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD (iii) the CPI Index Rate for each Maturity Date shall be calculated, in accordance with Section 2.14 of the Indenture, using the CPI Index Rate Formula, which means (i) the total of CPI for the applicable Reference Month less CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month, divided by (ii) CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month, which formula would be expressed mathematically as ((CPIt — CPIt 12) / CPIt 12), where:
CPIt = CPI for the applicable Reference Month;
CPIt-12 = CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month;
Applicable Spread = [ ]%; and
Reference Month = the 3rd calendar month preceding each CPI Index Rate Reset Date.
(iv) the Mandatory Purchase Date shall be______________; Item 2
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(v) the Interest Payment Date[s] shall be the first Business Day of each Month, commencing on the first Business Day of [ ], [20 ]; and (vi) CPI Index Rate Reset Date[s] shall be the first Business Day of each calendar month; and
(vii) if, during any CPI Index Rate Period, the CPI is not reported by, or otherwise ceases to be available from, the relevant source, but the CPI has otherwise been reported by the BLS, the Calculation Agent will determine the CPI as published by the BLS for such month using a source it deems to be accurate and appropriate.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set forth my hand this ____ day of _______________.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By:
Name
Title
Please sign below to signify your acknowledgement of receipt of this Certificate and, as to the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agreement, as the case may be, your agreement with the terms set forth herein.
ACKNOWLEDGED AND RECEIVED:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
By:
Name
Title
ACKNOWLEDGED, RECEIVED AND AGREED TO:
as Underwriter
By:
Name
Title
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EXHIBIT C
Form of Written Direction and Redemption Notice
To: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”) DIRECTION IS HEREBY GIVEN by CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY (the “Issuer”) to the Trustee for the Issuer’s Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate]) (the “Bonds”) issued pursuant to the Trust Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2025, by and between the Issuer and the Trustee (the “Indenture”), to call the Bonds for redemption on [_________], 20[__] (the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price equal to [FOR REDEMPTION UNDER SECTION 4.03(a): the greater of (i) the Amortized Value of the Bonds, and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining unpaid payments of principal and interest to be paid on the Bonds to be redeemed from and including the Redemption Date (not including any portion of the interest accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date) to the earlier of the stated maturity date of such Bonds or the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date, discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis at a discount rate equal to the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate for the Bonds minus 0.25% per annum, in each case plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (the “Redemption Price”)] OR [FOR REDEMPTION UNDER SECTION 4.03(b): the Amortized Value of the Bonds as of the Redemption Date, plus $0.10 per $1,000 of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (the “Redemption Price”).] [“Amortized Value” means, with respect to any Bond to be redeemed when a Term Rate Period is in effect with respect to such Bond, the principal amount of such Bond multiplied by the price of such Bond expressed as a percentage, calculated by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, selected by the Issuer, based on the industry standard method of calculating bond prices (as such industry standard prevailed on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate), with a delivery date equal to the date of redemption of such Bond, a maturity date equal to the earlier of (a) the stated maturity date of such Bond or (b) the Term Rate Tender Date of such Bond and a yield equal to such Bond’s original reoffering yield on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate. The Amortized Value of the Bonds as of certain dates during the Initial Interest Rate Period is set forth in Schedule IV to the Indenture.]
[“Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate” means, for the Bonds of any maturity, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the year of such maturity or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, as published by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. at least one Business Day and not more than 15 Business Days prior to the date that notice of redemption is required to be given pursuant to Section 4.04 of the Indenture. If no such yield curve rate is established for the applicable year, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the applicable year shall be determined, and the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yield curve rates on a straight line basis. This rate is made available daily by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. and is available to its subscribers through its internet address:
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Global Markets, Inc. no longer publish the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate, then the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall equal the Consensus Scale yield curve rate for the applicable year. The Consensus Scale yield curve rate is made available daily by Municipal Market Analytics, Inc. and is available to its subscribers through its internet address:
www.mma-research.com. In the further event Municipal Market Analytics, Inc. no longer publishes the Consensus Scale, the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be determined by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, based upon the rate per annum equal to the annual yield to maturity, calculated using semi-annual compounding, of those tax exempt general obligation bonds rated in the highest Rating Category by Moody’s and S&P with a maturity date equal to the stated maturity date or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, of such Bonds having characteristics (other than the ratings) most comparable to those of such Bonds in the judgment of the quotation agent. The quotation agent’s determination of the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be final and binding on all parties in the absence of manifest error and may be conclusively relied upon in good faith by the Trustee.] The quotation agent selected by the Issuer is [_________]. [_________] shall calculate the Redemption Price and deliver it to you five Business Days (as defined in the Indenture) prior to the Redemption Date.
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The Issuer hereby directs you to cause notice of such optional redemption to be given pursuant to the provisions set forth in Section 4.04 of the Indenture to the registered owner of each Bond being redeemed, at its address as it appears on the bond registration books of the Trustee or at such address as such owner may have filed with the Trustee for that purpose, as of the Regular Record Date (as defined in the Indenture), such notice to be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least [_________] ([__]) days prior to the Redemption Date, and such notice to be in substantially the form attached as APPENDIX A hereto.
Dated: [_________], 20[__].
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By: ________________________________
Authorized Officer
ACKNOWLEDGED
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
By: ________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
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APPENDIX A
FORM OF
NOTICE OF CONDITIONAL OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
related to
Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds
Series 2025[_] (Green Bonds) ([Term Rate])
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the holders of the following California Community Choice Financing Authority Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 2025[_] (the “Bonds”), which were issued on [Closing Date], 2025, that the Bonds listed below have been called for redemption prior to maturity on [_________], 20[__] (the “Redemption Date”), at a redemption price equal to [the Amortized Value of the Bonds as of the Redemption Date, plus $0.10 per $1,000 of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (the “Redemption Price”)] OR [the greater of (i) the Amortized Value of the Bonds, and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining unpaid payments of principal and interest to be paid on the Bonds to be redeemed from and including the Redemption Date (not including any portion of the interest accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date) to the earlier of the stated maturity date of such Bonds or the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date, discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis at a discount rate equal to the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate for the Bonds minus 0.25% per annum, in each case plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (the “Redemption Price”).]
[“Amortized Value” means, with respect to any Bond to be redeemed when a Term Rate Period is in effect with respect to such Bond, the principal amount of such Bond multiplied by the price of such Bond expressed as a percentage, calculated by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, selected by the Issuer, based on the industry standard method of calculating bond prices (as such industry standard prevailed on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate), with a delivery date equal to the date of redemption of such Bond, a maturity date equal to the earlier of (a) the stated maturity date of such Bond or (b) the Term Rate Tender Date of such Bond and a yield equal to such Bond’s original reoffering yield on the date such Bond began to bear interest at its current Term Rate. The Amortized Value of the Bonds as of certain dates during the Initial Interest Rate Period is set forth in Schedule IV to the Indenture.]
[“Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate” means, for the Bonds of any maturity, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the year of such maturity or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, as published by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. at least one Business Day and not more than 15 Business Days prior to the date that notice of redemption is required to be given pursuant to Section 4.04 of the Indenture. If no such yield curve rate is established for the applicable year, the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the applicable year shall be determined, and the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yield curve rates on a straight line basis. This rate is made available daily Item 2
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by Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. and is available to its subscribers through its internet address:
www.tm3.com. In calculating the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate, should Refinitiv Global Markets, Inc. no longer publish the “Comparable AAA General Obligations” yield curve rate, then the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall equal the Consensus Scale yield curve rate for the applicable year. The Consensus Scale yield curve rate is made available daily by Municipal Market Analytics, Inc. and is available to its subscribers through its internet address:
www.mma-research.com. In the further event Municipal Market Analytics, Inc. no longer publishes the Consensus Scale, the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be determined by a major market maker in municipal securities, as the quotation agent, based upon the rate per annum equal to the annual yield to maturity, calculated using semi-annual compounding, of those tax exempt general obligation bonds rated in the highest Rating Category by Moody’s and S&P with a maturity date equal to the stated maturity date or Mandatory Purchase Date, as applicable, of such Bonds having characteristics (other than the ratings) most comparable to those of such Bonds in the judgment of the quotation agent. The quotation agent’s determination of the Applicable Tax Exempt Municipal Bond Rate shall be final and binding on all parties in the absence of manifest error and may be conclusively relied upon in good faith by the Trustee.] CUSIP
NUMBER1
MATURITY
DATE
INTEREST
RATE
OUTSTANDING
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
TO BE
REDEEMED
REDEMPTION
DATE
The quotation agent selected by California Community Choice Financing Authority is [_________]. [_________] shall calculate the Redemption Price five Business Days (as defined in the Indenture) prior to the Redemption Date.
On the Redemption Date, there shall become due and payable on the Bonds to be redeemed, upon presentation and surrender of such Bonds as set forth below, the above mentioned Redemption Price, together with interest accrued and unpaid on the Bonds to be redeemed to such Redemption Date and, if payment has been made as provided for, then interest on the Bonds to be redeemed shall cease to accrue from and after the Redemption Date.
The redemption of the Bonds is subject to the condition that the Redemption Price will be due and payable on the Redemption Date only if moneys sufficient to accomplish such redemption are held by the Trustee on the scheduled Redemption Date. 1 No representation is made as to the correctness of the CUSIP number either as printed on the Bonds or as contained in this notice and an error in a CUSIP number as printed on such Bonds or as contained in this notice shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for redemption.
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On [insert redemption date], the Bonds to be redeemed shall be surrendered for redemption to:
FIRST
CLASS/REGISTERED/CERTIFIED EXPRESS DELIVERY ONLY BY HAND ONLY Any inquiries can be made by calling the following telephone number: (___) ___-____.
The method of delivery of the Bonds to be redeemed is at the option and risk of the holder, but, if mail is used, registered mail, properly insured, with receipt requested, is recommended.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as
Trustee
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
Dated: [__________], 20[__]
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EXHIBIT D
Form of Index Rate Continuation Notice
Re: California Community Choice Financing Authority Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds, Series 20[_]-[_] (Green Bonds) ([SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate) (the “Bonds”) Reference is made to [Section 2.09][and][Section 2.14] of the Trust Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2025 (the “Indenture”), between the California Community Choice Financing Authority (the “Issuer”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), relating to the above captioned Bonds. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
The undersigned Authorized Officer of the Issuer hereby notifies the Trustee and the Rating Agencies as follows with respect to the Index Rate Period commencing on the date hereof:
Include the following text separately for each Series of Index Rate Bonds:
(i) the Index Rate shall be the [SOFR/SIFMA] Index Rate; and the Index Rate Period shall be;
(ii) if the Index Rate shall be the SOFR Index Rate, (A) the SOFR Index shall be the “Secured Overnight Financing Rate” reported on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or reported by any successor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as administrator of such Secured Overnight Financing Rate, as of 3:00 p.m. on each SOFR Publish Date representing the SOFR Index as of the third Business Day preceding the [Conversion Date][Index Rate Reset Date], which will be used to calculate interest for the SOFR Effective Period beginning on such [Conversion Date][Index Rate Reset Date] (the “SOFR Effective Date”) (for example, for purposes of determining the SOFR Index for a SOFR Effective Date of Thursday, __________, 20__, the Calculation Agent uses SOFR published on the SOFR Publish Date of Tuesday, __________, 20__, which is the SOFR Index for the SOFR Lookback Date of Monday, __________, 20__), and (B) the Applicable Factor, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be [___]% of SOFR.
(iii) the Applicable Spread for each Maturity Date, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be as follows:
MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD
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(iv) if, during any [SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate Period, the [SIFMA/SOFR] Index Rate is not reported by, or otherwise ceases to be available from, the relevant source, the substitute or replacement Index Rate, as determined by the Issuer, for the Index Rate Period shall be the substitute determined in writing by the Issuer; (v) the first day of the new Index Rate Period shall be; (vi) the Index Rate Tender Date shall be;
(vii) if a Liquidity Facility is to be in effect for the Bonds during the new Index Rate Period, the Liquidity Facility Provider shall be;
(viii) for a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SIFMA Index Rate, the Index Rate Reset Date[s] shall be [Thursday of each week, or if the SIFMA Index is not issued on Wednesday of such week, the Business Day next succeeding the day on which the SIFMA Index for such week is issued]; and
(ix) for a Series of Bonds bearing interest at the SOFR Index Rate, the SOFR Effective Date shall be [each Business Day][[___________], 20[___]].
Include the following text for any Series of CPI Bonds:
(i) the CPI Rate Period shall be _______;
(ii) the Applicable Spread for each Maturity Date, as determined by the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, shall be as follows:
MATURITY DATE APPLICABLE SPREAD
(iii) the CPI Index Rate for each Maturity Date shall be calculated, in accordance with Section 2.14 of the Indenture, using the CPI Index Rate Formula, which means [(CPIt — CPIt-12) / CPIt-12] + Applicable Spread, where:
CPIt = CPI for the applicable Reference Month;
CPIt-12 = CPI for the twelfth month prior to the applicable Reference Month;
Applicable Spread = [___]%; and
Reference Month = the 3rd calendar month preceding each CPI Index Rate Reset Date.
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(iv) the Mandatory Purchase Date shall be;
(v) the Interest Payment Dates shall be the first Business Day of each Month; (vi) the CPI Index Rate Reset Date[s] shall be the first day of each calendar month; and
(vii) if, during any CPI Index Rate Period, the CPI is not reported by, or otherwise ceases to be available from, the relevant source, but the CPI has otherwise been reported by the BLS, the Calculation Agent will determine the CPI as published by the BLS for such month using a source it deems to be accurate and appropriate. [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank; signatures follow.] Item 2
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set forth my hand this ____ day of _______________.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE
FINANCING AUTHORITY
By:
Name
Title
Please sign below to signify your acknowledgement of receipt of this Notice and, as to the Underwriter or the Remarketing Agreement, as the case may be, your agreement with the terms set forth herein.
ACKNOWLEDGED AND RECEIVED:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
By:
Name
Title
ACKNOWLEDGED, RECEIVED AND AGREED TO:
as Underwriter
By:
Name
Title
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SCHEDULE I
INITIAL PROJECT PARTICIPANT
Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority
Notice Address:
333 W. El Camino Real Suite 330
Sunnyvale, California 94087
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SCHEDULE II
Scheduled Debt Service Deposits(1)
DATE
SCHEDULED
MONTHLY DEPOSIT
MINIMUM INTEREST
EARNINGS
ACCRUAL(1)
CUMULATIVE
SCHEDULED
BALANCE
__/__/20__ $[__] $[__]
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DATE
SCHEDULED
MONTHLY DEPOSIT
MINIMUM INTEREST
EARNINGS
ACCRUAL(1)
CUMULATIVE
SCHEDULED
BALANCE
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DATE
SCHEDULED
MONTHLY DEPOSIT
MINIMUM INTEREST
EARNINGS
ACCRUAL(1)
CUMULATIVE
SCHEDULED
BALANCE
___________________
(1) Excludes projected interest earnings on the ISDA Agreement with the Energy Supplier.
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SCHEDULE III
TERMS OF COMMODITY SWAPS
For each Month beginning with [____] 20[__] and ending with [____] 20[__], the Issuer will determine for each “Primary Delivery Point” as set forth on Exhibit A to the Energy Purchase Agreement, (i) the price under the “Contract Index Price” (as set forth on such Exhibit A), (ii) the difference (which may be positive or negative) between such Contract Index Price and the aggregate fixed prices for Energy set forth in the Commodity Swaps, and (iii) the product of such difference and the Energy quantity, as applicable, for such Primary Delivery Point as set forth on Exhibit A to the Energy Purchase Agreement.
The Issuer will then calculate a net settlement amount for all Primary Delivery Points for such Month due by or to the Issuer under the Commodity Swaps that aggregates the amounts determined under clause (iii) above.
All payments from the Issuer or the Commodity Swap Counterparties will be due on each “Payment Date” under the Commodity Swaps (which shall be the twenty-fifth (25th) day of the Month following the Month of Energy deliveries or, if such day is not a Business Day under the Commodity Swaps, then the next following Business Day).
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SCHEDULE IV
AMORTIZED VALUE OF
SERIES 2025[_] BONDS
REDEMPTION
DATE
REDEMPTION
PRICE
REDEMPTION
DATE
REDEMPTION
PRICE
[__/1/20__ $____.__ _/_/20__ $____.__]
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PREPAID ENERGY SALES AGREEMENT
between
ENERGY PREPAY IX, LLC
and
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY
Dated as of [____], 2025
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-i-Article I. Definitions..................................................................................................................... 1 Section 1.1 Defined Terms ..................................................................................... 1 Section 1.2 Definitions; Interpretation.................................................................. 11 Article II. Execution Date and Delivery Period ...................................................................... 12 Section 2.1 Execution Date; Delivery Period ....................................................... 12 Section 2.2 Termination by Seller Prior to Prepayment ....................................... 12 Article III. Sale And Purchase.................................................................................................. 12 Section 3.1 Sale and Purchase of Energy.............................................................. 12 Section 3.2 Prepayment ........................................................................................ 13 Section 3.3 Other Amounts Payable with Respect to Assigned Products ............ 13 Section 3.4 No Obligation to Take Base Energy .................................................. 13 Section 3.5 Reduction of Contract Quantity......................................................... 13 Article IV. Failure to Deliver or Take Energy ........................................................................ 14 Section 4.1 Assigned Product ............................................................................... 14 Section 4.2 Failure to Deliver or Take Due to Force Majeure.............................. 14 Article V. Transmission and Delivery; Communications ...................................................... 14 Section 5.1 Delivery of Energy............................................................................. 14 Section 5.2 Scheduling.......................................................................................... 15 Section 5.3 Title and Risk of Loss........................................................................ 15 Section 5.4 PCC1 Product, Long-Term PCC1 Product, and PCC2 Product ........ 15 Section 5.5 Deliveries within CAISO or Another Balancing Authority............... 18 Section 5.6 Assigned Products.............................................................................. 19 Article VI. Partial Assignments of PPAs ................................................................................. 19 Section 6.1 Future PPA Assignments................................................................... 19 Section 6.2 Updates to Exhibits A-1 and A-2....................................................... 19 Article VII. Energy Remarketing............................................................................................. 19 Section 7.1 Energy Remarketing .......................................................................... 19 Section 7.2 Delegation of Authority ..................................................................... 19 Article VIII. Representations and Warranties........................................................................ 20 Section 8.1 Representations and Warranties......................................................... 20 Item 2
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-ii-Section 8.2 Additional Representations and Warranties of Buyer ....................... 21 Section 8.3 Warranty of Title................................................................................ 22 Section 8.4 Funding Agreement. .......................................................................... 22 Section 8.5 Notice of PSC Termination................................................................ 23 Article IX. Taxes ........................................................................................................................ 23 Article X. Dispute Resolution.................................................................................................... 23 Section 10.1 Arbitration.......................................................................................... 23 Section 10.2 Dispute Resolution............................................................................. 24 Article XI. Force Majeure......................................................................................................... 26 Section 11.1 Applicability of Force Majeure.......................................................... 26 Section 11.2 Settlement of Labor Disputes............................................................. 26 Article XII. Governmental Rules and Regulations................................................................. 26 Section 12.1 Compliance with Laws ...................................................................... 26 Section 12.2 Contests.............................................................................................. 26 Section 12.3 Defense of Agreement ....................................................................... 27 Article XIII. Assignment ........................................................................................................... 27 Article XIV. Payments............................................................................................................... 28 Section 14.1 Monthly Statements........................................................................... 28 Section 14.2 Payment.............................................................................................. 29 Section 14.3 Payment of Disputed Amounts.......................................................... 29 Section 14.4 Late Payment ..................................................................................... 29 Section 14.5 Audit; Adjustments............................................................................ 29 Section 14.6 Netting................................................................................................ 30 Article XV. Receivables Purchases........................................................................................... 30 Article XVI. Notices................................................................................................................... 30 Article XVII. Acceleration; Termination; Remedies.............................................................. 31 Section 17.1 Acceleration Event............................................................................. 31 Section 17.2 Energy Delivery Termination Events. ............................................... 31 Section 17.3 Payments Following a Ledger Event. ................................................ 32 Section 17.4 Remedies and Termination. ............................................................... 32 Item 2
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-iii-Section 17.5 Replacement of Swaps....................................................................... 33 Section 17.6 Limitation on Damages...................................................................... 34 Section 17.7 Option to Purchase Bonds.................................................................. 35 Section 17.8 Termination Payment Adjustment Schedule ..................................... 36 Article XVIII. Miscellaneous .................................................................................................... 36 Section 18.1 Indemnification Procedure................................................................. 36 Section 18.2 Deliveries........................................................................................... 36 Section 18.3 Entirety; Amendments....................................................................... 37 Section 18.4 Governing Law .................................................................................. 37 Section 18.5 Non-Waiver........................................................................................ 37 Section 18.6 Severability ........................................................................................ 37 Section 18.7 Exhibits.............................................................................................. 37 Section 18.8 Winding Up Arrangements................................................................ 37 Section 18.9 Relationships of Parties...................................................................... 38 Section 18.10 Immunity............................................................................................ 38 Section 18.11 Rates and Indices ............................................................................... 38 Section 18.12 Limitation of Liability........................................................................ 39 Section 18.13 Counterparts....................................................................................... 39 Section 18.14 Rights of Trustee................................................................................ 40 Section 18.15 Waiver of Defenses............................................................................ 40 Section 18.16 U.S. Resolution Stay.......................................................................... 40 Section 18.17 Rate Changes ..................................................................................... 41 Exhibit A-1 - Base Energy Hourly Quantities
Exhibit A-2 - EPS Energy Period Monthly Projected Quantity Exhibit A-3 - Annual Quantity
Exhibit B - Notices
Exhibit C - Energy Remarketing
Exhibit D-1 - Termination Payment Schedule
Exhibit D-2 - Termination Payment Adjustment Schedule
Exhibit D-3 - Post Termination Payment Schedule
Exhibit E - Reserved
Exhibit F - Pricing and Other Terms
Exhibit G - Receivables Purchases
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1 PREPAID ENERGY SALES AGREEMENT
This Prepaid Energy Sales Agreement (hereinafter, this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of [____], 2025 (the “Execution Date”), by and between Energy Prepay IX, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Seller”), and California Community Choice Financing Authority, a joint powers authority and a public entity of the State of California established pursuant to the provisions of the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Article 1, Chapter 5, Division 7, Title 1, Section 6500 et seq. of the California Government Code, as amended) (“Buyer”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Seller desires to sell Energy to Buyer, and Buyer desires to purchase Energy from Seller, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth; and WHEREAS, in connection with the execution of this Agreement, Seller shall enter into that certain Energy Management Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Energy Management Agreement”), with Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (“MSCG”), pursuant to which Seller shall acquire Energy for delivery under this Agreement; and WHEREAS, in connection with Buyer’s execution of the Power Supply Contract (as defined below), the Project Participant (as defined below) under such Power Supply Contract will assign to MSCG pursuant to the Initial Assignment Agreement certain Assigned Rights and Obligations, including the right to receive Assigned Product, which Assigned Product will be resold by MSCG to Seller under the Energy Management Agreement, then resold by Seller to Buyer hereunder and then resold to the Project Participant under the Power Supply Contract.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises above and the mutual covenants and agreements herein set forth, Buyer and Seller (the “Parties” hereto; each is a “Party”) agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Defined Terms. The following terms, when used in this Agreement and identified by the capitalization of the first letter thereof, have the respective meanings set forth below, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Acceleration Event” has the meaning specified in Section 17.1. “Affiliate” means, with respect to either Party, any entity which is a direct or indirect parent or subsidiary of such Party or which directly or indirectly (i) owns or controls such Party, (ii) is owned or controlled by such Party, or (iii) is under common ownership or control with such Party. For purposes of this definition, “control” of an entity means the power, directly or indirectly, either to (a) vote 50% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or Persons performing similar functions or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies, whether by contract or otherwise.
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2 “Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preamble and shall include exhibits, recitals and attachments referenced herein and attached hereto and all amendments, supplements and modifications hereto and thereto.
“Annual Quantity” means, with respect to each Contract Year of the Delivery Period, the quantity (in MWh) of Assigned Product for such Contract Year as set forth on Exhibit A-3; provided that the Annual Quantity for any Contract Year shall be reduced by the aggregate amount of any quantities of Base Energy required to be remarketed under this Agreement for any given Contract Year.
“Assigned Delivery Point” has the meaning specified in the applicable Assignment Agreement.
“Assigned Energy” has the meaning specified in the applicable Assignment Agreement; provided that any Assigned Energy shall be EPS Compliant Energy as set forth in the Assignment Letter Agreement.
“Assigned Paygo Quantity” means any Assigned Products delivered under this Agreement in excess of the Annual Quantity for any Contract Year. “Assigned PPA” has the meaning specified in the Participant Custodial Agreement. “Assigned PPA Index Adder” means the amount (in $/MWh) specified in Exhibit A-2 for each Month of the Delivery Period.
“Assigned Product” means, as applicable, PCC1 Product, Long-Term PCC1 Product, PCC2 Product, Assigned Energy, Assigned RECs and any other product included in an Assignment Agreement.
“Assigned RECs” means any RECs to be delivered to MSCG or Seller pursuant to any Assigned Rights and Obligations.
“Assigned Rights and Obligations” means a portion of the Project Participant’s rights and obligations under a power purchase agreement assigned pursuant to an Assignment Agreement.
“Assignment Agreement” means the Initial Assignment Agreement and any subsequent assignment agreement entered into consistent with the Assignment Letter Agreement. “Assignment Letter Agreement” means that certain Letter Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among MSCG, Seller, Buyer and Project Participant. “Assignment Period” has the meaning specified in the applicable Assignment Agreement.
“Available Discount” has the meaning specified in the Re-Pricing Agreement. “Balancing Authority” has the meaning specified in the CAISO Tariff.
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3 “Base Energy” means Firm (LD) Energy to be delivered to an Energy Delivery Point.
“Billing Date” has the meaning specified in Section 14.1(b). “Billing Statement” has the meaning specified in Section 14.1(b). “Bond Closing Date” means the first date on which the Bonds are issued pursuant to the Bond Indenture.
“Bond Documents” means this Agreement, the Power Supply Contract, the Bond Indenture and all other documents, agreements and instruments entered into or delivered by Buyer in connection with any of the foregoing or the transactions thereunder. “Bond Indenture” means (i) the Trust Indenture to be entered into prior to the commencement of the Delivery Period between Buyer and the Trustee, as supplemented and amended from time to time in accordance with its terms, and (ii) any trust indenture entered into in connection with the commencement of any Interest Rate Period after the initial Interest Rate Period between Buyer and the Trustee containing substantially the same terms as the Trust Indenture described in clause (i) and which is intended to replace the Trust Indenture described in clause (i) as of the commencement of such Interest Rate Period which follows. “Bonds” means the bonds issued pursuant to the Bond Indenture. “Business Day” means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a Federal Reserve Bank Holiday, (iii) any other day on which commercial banks in either New York, New York or the State of California are authorized or required by Law to close, or (iv) any other day excluded pursuant to the Bond Indenture.
“Buyer” has the meaning specified in the preamble.
“Buyer Custodial Agreement” means that certain Custodial Agreement, dated as of the Bond Closing Date, by and among Swap Counterparty, Buyer, the Trustee and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as custodian as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Buyer Swap” means (i) the transaction confirmation entered into under the ISDA Master Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between Buyer and the Swap Counterparty, and (ii) each replacement Buyer Swap entered into pursuant to Section 17.5. “Buyer’s Statement” has the meaning specified in Section 14.1(a). “CAISO” means California Independent System Operator or its successor. “CAISO Tariff” means CAISO’s FERC-approved tariff, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.
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4 “California Long-Term Contracting Requirements” means the long-term contracting requirement set forth in the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 (SB 350), California Public Utilities Code section 399.13(b), and CPUC Decision 17-06-026 and CPUC Decision 18-05-026, as may be modified by subsequent decision of the California Public Utilities Commission or by other Law.
“Call Option Notice” has the meaning specified in Exhibit G. “Claiming Party” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1. “Claims” means all claims or actions, threatened or filed, that directly or indirectly relate to the indemnities provided herein, and the resulting losses, damages, expenses, attorneys’ fees, experts’ fees, and court costs, whether incurred by settlement or otherwise, and whether such claims or actions are threatened or filed prior to or after the termination of this Agreement. “Clean Energy Project” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture. “Commercially Reasonable” or “Commercially Reasonable Efforts” means, with respect to any purchase or sale or other action required to be made, attempted or taken by a Party under this Agreement, such efforts as a reasonably prudent Person would undertake for the protection of its own interest under the conditions affecting such purchase or sale or other action, including without limitation, the amount of notice of the need to take such action, the duration and type of the purchase or sale or other action, the competitive environment in which such purchase or sale or other action occurs, and the risk to the Party required to take such action. “Contract Index Price” means the index price specified on Exhibit A-1 with respect to the Hourly Quantity of Energy (which index prices may be Day-Ahead Market Price or Real-Time Market Price). “Contract Quantity” means (i) with respect to Assigned Energy, the Annual Quantity of Assigned Energy for each Contract Year of the Delivery Period; and (ii) with respect to Base Energy, the Hourly Quantity of Base Energy set forth in Exhibit A-1 for any Month, as such Exhibits A-1 and A-2 shall be updated from time to time in accordance with Section 6.2. “Contract Year” means each period of 12 Months from January 1 until December 31 during the Delivery Period.
“Custodial Agreements” means the Buyer Custodial Agreement and the Seller Custodial Agreement.
“Daily Basis Differential” has the meaning specified in Section 18.11(a)(ii). “Daily Commodity Reference Price” means (A) the Day-Ahead Market Price, (B) the Day-Ahead Average Price or (C) the Real-Time Market Price. “Daily Replacement Index” has the meaning specified in Section 18.11(a)(ii).
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5 “Day-Ahead Average Price” means, for any Assigned Energy in any EPS Energy Period1, the result of (i) (x) the sum of the Day-Ahead Market Prices for each Pricing Interval in a Month divided by (y) the number of Pricing Intervals in such Month plus (ii) the Assigned PPA Index Adder for the relevant Month. As used in this definition, “Pricing Interval” means each unit of time for which CAISO establishes a separate price.
“Day-Ahead Market Price” means the Day Ahead Market or Locational Marginal Price for the Energy Delivery Point for each applicable hour as published by CAISO, or as such price may be corrected or revised from time to time by such independent system operator or other entity in accordance with its rules.
“Default Rate” means, as of any date of determination, the lesser of (a) the sum of (i) the rate of interest per annum quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) under the “Money Rates” section as the “Prime Rate” for such date of determination, plus (ii) one percent per annum, or (b) if a lower maximum rate is imposed by applicable Law, such maximum lawful rate.
“Delivery Hours” means each Hour commencing at 00:00 (PPT) on the first day of the Delivery Period, and each Hour thereafter during the Delivery Period. “Delivery Period” has the meaning specified in Exhibit F. “Delivery Point” means (i) the applicable Assigned Delivery Point(s) for Assigned Energy and (ii) the applicable Energy Delivery Point for Base Energy (as set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2). “Early Termination Payment Date” means the last Business Day of the first Month that commences after an Acceleration Event; provided that, in the case of an Acceleration Event due to a Failed Remarketing, the Early Termination Payment Date shall be the last Business Day of the then-current Interest Rate Period.
“Energy” means three-phase, 60-cycle alternating current electric energy, expressed in MWhs.
“Energy Delivery Point” has the meaning specified in Exhibit A-1. “Energy Delivery Termination Date” means a date that occurs pursuant to Section
17.4(a) upon which the Delivery Period will end and Buyer’s and Seller’s respective obligations to receive and deliver Energy under this Agreement will terminate. “Energy Delivery Termination Event” has the meaning specified in Section 17.2. “Energy Management Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals. 1 NTD: Parties to confirm pricing for the Initial Assignment Agreement.
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6 “EPS” means California’s Emissions Performance Standards, as set forth in Sections 8340 and 8341 of the California Public Utilities Code, as implemented and amended from time to time, and any successor Law.
“EPS Compliant Energy” means Energy that the Project Participant can contract for and purchase in compliance with EPS requirements that are applicable to such Project Participant.
“EPS Energy Period” means the Initial EPS Energy Period and any subsequent Assignment Period established by future assignments of power purchase agreements consistent with the Assignment Letter Agreement.
“Execution Date” has the meaning specified in the preamble. “Failed Remarketing” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture. “FERC” means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and any successor thereto.
“Firm (LD)” means, with respect to the obligation to deliver Energy, that either Party shall be relieved of its obligations to sell and deliver or purchase and receive without liability only to the extent that, and for the period during which, such performance is prevented by Force Majeure. In the absence of Force Majeure, the Party to which performance is owed shall be entitled to receive from the Party which failed to deliver/receive an amount determined pursuant to Article IV.
“Force Majeure” means an event or circumstance which prevents one Party from performing its obligations under this Agreement, which event or circumstance was not anticipated as of the Execution Date, which is not within the reasonable control of, or the result of the negligence of, the Claiming Party, and which, by the exercise of due diligence, the Claiming Party is unable to overcome or avoid or cause to be avoided. Force Majeure shall not be based on (i) the loss of Buyer’s markets; (ii) Buyer’s inability economically to use or resell any Energy purchased hereunder; (iii) the loss or failure of Seller’s supply except if such loss or failure results from curtailment by a Transmission Provider; or (iv) Seller’s ability to sell the Energy at a higher price.
Neither Party may raise a claim of Force Majeure based in whole or in part on curtailment by a Transmission Provider unless (a) such Party (or an upstream supplier with respect to Seller or the Project Participant with respect to Buyer) has contracted for firm transmission with such Transmission Provider for the Energy to be delivered to or received at the Energy Delivery Point and (b) such curtailment is due to “force majeure” or “uncontrollable force” or a similar term as defined under the Transmission Provider’s tariff; provided, however, that existence of the foregoing factors shall not be sufficient to conclusively or presumptively prove the existence of Force Majeure absent a showing of other facts and circumstances which in the aggregate with such factors establish that Force Majeure as defined in the first sentence hereof has occurred.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, (I) to the extent that (x) a PPA Supplier fails to deliver any Assigned Energy and claims force majeure with respect to such failure to deliver or (y) a PPA Supplier otherwise is unable to deliver any portion of the Annual Quantity due to an event that would be considered Force Majeure under this Agreement if it affected Seller Item 2
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7 directly, then such event shall be deemed to constitute Force Majeure in respect of Seller hereunder; and (II) to the extent that an Assignment Agreement is terminated early, such termination shall constitute Force Majeure with respect to Seller until the earlier of (A) the commencement of an Assignment Period under a replacement Assignment Agreement, (B) the commencement of the delivery of EPS Compliant Energy procured by MSCG consistent with the Assignment Letter Agreement or (C) the end of the second Month following the Month in which such early termination occurs.
“Funding Agreement” means initially that certain [____], dated as of [____], 2025 by and between Seller and the Funding Recipient and any replacement funding agreement entered into for a subsequent Reset Period.
“Funding Recipient” means initially, [____], or its successors to or permitted assignees of the Funding Agreement, and any other Person that becomes counterparty to Seller under a Funding Agreement for a subsequent Reset Period. “Government Agency” means the United States of America, any state thereof, any municipality, or any local jurisdiction, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, courts, administrative bodies, departments, commissions, boards, bureaus, agencies, or instrumentalities.
“Hour” means each 60-minute period commencing at 00:00 (PPT) on the first day of the Delivery Period. The term “Hourly” shall be construed accordingly. “Hourly Quantity” means, with respect to each Delivery Hour during the Delivery Period, the quantity (in MWh) of Base Energy set forth on Exhibit A-1 for the Month in which such Delivery Hour occurs (as such Exhibit A-1 may be updated from time to time in accordance with Section 6.2).
“Initial Assignment Agreement” means that certain Limited Assignment Agreement, dated on or around the Bond Closing Date, by and among the Project Participant, Initial PPA Supplier, Seller and Buyer.
“Initial EPS Energy Period” means the “Assignment Period” as defined in the Initial Assignment Agreement.
“Initial PPA Supplier” means Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, a California joint powers authority.
“Interest Rate Period” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture, provided that if the Bonds are outstanding in two or more series with separate, concurrent and co-terminus Interest Rate Periods, “Interest Rate Period” shall mean all such Interest Rate Periods collectively. “Law” means any statute, law, rule or regulation or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof having the effect of the foregoing enacted, promulgated, or issued by a Government Agency whether in effect as of the Execution Date or at any time in the future. “Ledger Event” has the meaning specified in Exhibit C.
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8 “Long-Term PCC1 Product” means bundled renewable energy and RECs meeting the requirements of Portfolio Content Category 1, and the California Long-Term Contracting Requirements, to be delivered to MSCG, Seller or any successors thereto pursuant to any Assigned Rights and Obligations.
“Mandatory Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture. “Master Custodial Agreement” means that certain Master Custodial Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Seller, MSCG, Buyer and the Master Custodian, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. “Master Custodian” means The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as custodian under the Master Custodial Agreement, and its successors as Master Custodian under the Master Custodial Agreement.
“Minimum Discount” has the meaning specified in the Power Supply Contract. “Month” means a calendar month. The term “Monthly” shall be construed accordingly.
“Monthly Excess Quantity” means, for any Month, the amount, if any, by which the total quantity (in MWh) of Assigned Product delivered under an Assigned PPA in such Month exceeds the Monthly Projected Quantity for such Assigned PPA such Month. “Monthly Projected Quantity” means, with respect to each Assigned PPA and each Month of the Assignment Period for each Assigned PPA, the quantity (in MWh) of Assigned Product for such Month as set forth on Exhibit A-2 for such Assigned PPA (as such Exhibit A-2 may be updated from time to time in accordance with Section 6.2). “Morgan Stanley” means Morgan Stanley, a Delaware corporation. “MSCG” has the meaning specified in the recitals.
“MWh” means megawatt-hour.
“Participant Custodial Agreement” means that certain [Second Consolidated, Amended and Restated Custodial Agreement], dated as of the Bond Closing Date, by and among the Project Participant, Buyer, Morgan Stanley Energy Structuring, L.L.C., MSCG and the Participant Custodian, as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.
“Participant Custodian” means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
“Party” has the meaning specified in the recitals.
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9 “PCC1 Product” means bundled renewable energy and RECs meeting the requirements of Portfolio Content Category 1 to be delivered to MSCG, Seller or any successors thereto pursuant to any Assigned Rights and Obligations. “PCC2 Product” means bundled renewable energy and RECs meeting the requirements of Portfolio Content Category 2 to be delivered to MSCG, Seller or any successors thereto pursuant to any Assigned Rights and Obligations. “Person” means any individual, limited liability company, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or Government Agency. “Portfolio Content Category 1” means any Renewable Energy Credit associated with the generation of electricity from an “Eligible Renewable Energy Resource” consisting of the portfolio content set forth in California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16(b)(1), as may be amended from time to time or as further defined or supplemented by Law. “Portfolio Content Category 2” means any Renewable Energy Credit associated with the generation of electricity from an Eligible Renewable Energy Resource consisting of the portfolio content set forth in California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16(b)(2), as may be amended from time to time or as further defined or supplemented by Law. “Power Supply Contract” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture. “PPA Supplier” means the Initial PPA Supplier and any subsequent supplier who enters into an Assignment Agreement consistent with the Assignment Letter Agreement. “PPT” means Pacific Prevailing Time.
“Prepayment” means the amount specified in Exhibit F.
“Prepayment Outside Date” means the date specified in Exhibit F. “Project Participant” means Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority, a joint powers authority organized pursuant to the provisions of Title 1, Division 7, Chapter 5, Article 1 (Section 6500 et seq.) of the California Government Code.
“Provisional Payment” has the meaning specified in the Exhibit C. “PSC Remarketing Termination” means, with respect to the Power Supply Contract, that the Project Participant delivered a valid Remarketing Termination Notice (other than a Voided Remarketing Termination Notice) (as such terms are defined in the Power Supply Contract) in accordance with [Section 3.4(b)] of the Power Supply Contract. “Put Option Notice” has the meaning specified in Exhibit G. “Rating Confirmation” has the meaning specified in the Bond Indenture.
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10 “Re-Pricing Agreement” means the Re-Pricing Agreement, dated as of the Bond Closing Date, by and between Buyer and Seller.
“Real-Time Market Price” means The Five Minute Market (FMM) Locational Marginal Price for the Energy Delivery Point for each applicable interval as published by CAISO, or as such price may be corrected or revised from time to time by such independent system operator or other entity in accordance with its rules.
“Remarketing Notice” has the meaning specified in Exhibit C. “Renewable Energy Credit” or “REC” has the meaning specified for “Renewable Energy Credit” in California Public Utilities Code Section 399.12(h), as may be amended from time to time or as further defined or supplemented by Law. “Repurchase Offer” has the meaning specified in Exhibit G. “Reset Period” means each “Reset Period” under the Re-Pricing Agreement. “RPS” means the renewable energy program and policies established by California State Senate Bills 1038 (2002), 1078 (2002), 107 (2008), X-1 2 (2011), 350 (2015), and 100 (2018) as codified in, inter alia, California Public Utilities Code Sections 399.11 through 399.31 and California Public Resources Code Sections 25740 through 25751, as such provisions are amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Schedule”, “Scheduled” or “Scheduling” means the actions of Seller, Buyer and/or their designated representatives, including each Party’s Transmission Providers, if applicable, of notifying, requesting and confirming to each other the quantity of Energy to be delivered during any given portion of the Delivery Period at a specified Delivery Point. “Seller” has the meaning specified in the preamble.
“Seller Custodial Agreement” means that certain Custodial Agreement, dated as of the Bond Closing Date, by and among Swap Counterparty, Seller, the Trustee and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as custodian, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Seller Swap” means (i) the transaction confirmation entered into under the ISDA Master Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by Seller and the Swap Counterparty, and (ii) each replacement Seller Swap entered into pursuant to Section 17.5. “Specified Discount” means the amount specified in Exhibit F. “Specified Fixed Price” means the amount specified in Exhibit F. “Specified Investment Agreement” means a guaranteed investment contract between the Trustee and a provider concerning the investment of funds in the Debt Service Account (as defined in the Bond Indenture).
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11 “Swap Counterparty” means (i) BP Energy Company, a Delaware corporation, and (ii) any other Person that becomes counterparty to Buyer under a Buyer Swap or to Seller under a Seller Swap, in each case pursuant to Section 17.5.
“Swap Replacement Period” has the meaning specified in Section 17.5(a). “Terminating Party” means any Party that has the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Article XVII.
“Termination Payment” means, with respect to any Early Termination Payment Date, the amount specified on Exhibit D-1 for the calendar month in which such Early Termination Payment Date occurs (as adjusted by any applicable Termination Payment Adjustment Amount specified on Exhibit D-2) without any set-off or netting of amounts then due from Buyer. “Termination Payment Adjustment Amount” means, with respect to any Early Termination Payment Date, the amount specified on Exhibit D-2 for the calendar month in which such Early Termination Payment Date occurs. For the avoidance of doubt, the Termination Payment Adjustment Amount for the period commencing on the Execution Date is zero (0). “Termination Payment Adjustment Schedule” means the schedule of Termination Payment Adjustment Amounts set forth in Exhibit D-2, as such exhibit may be populated and amended from time to time in accordance with Section 17.8. “Transaction Documents” has the meaning specified in Article XIII. “Transmission Provider(s)” means any entity or entities transmitting or transporting Energy on behalf of Seller or Buyer to or from an Energy Delivery Point. “Trustee” means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. and its successors as Trustee under the Bond Indenture.
“WREGIS” means the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System or its successor.
Section 1.2 Definitions; Interpretation. References to “Articles,” “Sections,” “Schedules” and “Exhibits” shall be to Articles, Sections, Schedules and Exhibits, as the case may be, of this Agreement unless otherwise specifically provided. Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect. Any of the terms defined herein may, unless the context otherwise requires, be used in the singular or the plural, depending on the reference. The use herein of the word “include” or “including”, when following any general statement, term or matter, shall not be construed to limit such statement, term or matter to the specific items or matters set forth immediately following such word or to similar items or matters, whether or not non-limiting language (such as “without limitation” or “but not limited to” or words of similar import) is used with reference thereto, but rather shall be deemed to refer to all other items or matters that fall within the scope of such general statement, term or matter. Any reference herein to any agreement or document includes all amendments, supplements or restatements to and of such agreement or document as may occur from time to time, and any reference to a party Item 2
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12 to any such agreement includes all successors and assigns of such party thereunder permitted by the terms hereof and thereof.
ARTICLE II.
EXECUTION DATE AND DELIVERY PERIOD
Section 2.1 Execution Date; Delivery Period. This Agreement shall become effective upon the Execution Date and, unless this Agreement is terminated early pursuant to Section 2.2, all of Seller’s and Buyer’s obligations under this Agreement shall be deemed to have been incurred upon the Execution Date. Unless this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section
2.2, then, upon receipt of the Prepayment, the delivery of Energy under this Agreement shall commence and continue for the Delivery Period.
Section 2.2 Termination by Seller Prior to Prepayment. Seller shall have no obligation to perform under this Agreement unless and until it has received the Prepayment from Buyer pursuant to Section 3.2. In the event Seller has not received the Prepayment prior to noon local time in New York, New York on the Prepayment Outside Date, Seller shall have the right, until such Prepayment has been paid, to terminate this Agreement without any further obligation or liability of either Party; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in the event Seller so terminates, such termination shall be effective upon the Prepayment Outside Date regardless of whether Buyer tenders the Prepayment after Seller’s notice of termination but prior to the Prepayment Outside Date. For the avoidance of doubt, no Termination Payment shall be payable by Seller under any circumstances if this Agreement terminates pursuant to this Section 2.2.
ARTICLE III.
SALE AND PURCHASE
Section 3.1 Sale and Purchase of Energy.
(a) Seller agrees to sell and deliver or cause to be delivered to Buyer, and Buyer agrees to take or cause to be taken from Seller, in each case, on a Firm (LD) basis, the Contract Quantity pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. Energy delivered to Buyer under this Agreement shall be re-delivered to the Project Participant on a floating price basis throughout the Delivery Period. The Parties acknowledge and agree that Seller’s delivery obligation for (i) Assigned Products will be measured on an annual basis and (ii) Base Energy will be measured on an Hourly basis, as reflected in the definition of Contract Quantity and further set forth in the terms of this Agreement.
(b) In recognition that Seller will have increased floating price payment obligations to the Swap Counterparty under the Seller Swap with respect to negatively priced Energy and the Swap Counterparty will have increased floating price payment obligations to Buyer under the Buyer Swap with respect to negatively priced Energy, the Parties acknowledge and agree that Seller shall have no payment obligations to Buyer with respect to negatively priced Energy.
Furthermore, with respect to any negatively priced Energy remarketed pursuant to this Agreement, Seller’s payment obligations under Exhibit C shall be reduced to the extent that such Energy is negatively priced.
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13 Section 3.2 Prepayment. Prior to the commencement of the Delivery Period, Buyer shall pay Seller for all Energy to be delivered during the Delivery Period in an amount equal to the Prepayment, and Seller shall accept the Prepayment as payment in full for all Energy to be delivered hereunder. Buyer shall pay the Prepayment in a single lump sum payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by Seller. In no event shall Buyer be entitled to any rebate or refund of the Prepayment, but nothing in this Section 3.2 shall limit Buyer’s rights under (i) Article IV for Seller’s failure to deliver Energy (whether or not excused), (ii) Article XVII upon early termination of this Agreement or (iii) Exhibit C with respect to remarketing of Energy in accordance therewith. In no event shall Buyer be required to pay the Prepayment unless and until the Bonds are issued in exchange for a purchase price sufficient to pay costs of issuance, to fund required reserves under the Bond Indenture (or purchase surety bonds or enter into any similar arrangements in lieu of funding such reserves), and to pay the Prepayment.
Section 3.3 Other Amounts Payable with Respect to Assigned Products. (a) With respect to Monthly Excess Quantities and Assigned Paygo Quantities delivered hereunder, Buyer shall pay Seller an amount equal to the quantity of such Monthly Excess Quantities and Assigned Paygo Quantities, as applicable, multiplied by the price specified for Assigned Product under the applicable Assignment Agreement(s); provided that the Parties acknowledge and agree that the Project Participant’s payment of the Retained Payment Amount (as defined in the Participant Custodial Agreement) shall be deemed to satisfy Buyer’s payment obligation hereunder with respect to any such Monthly Excess Quantities and Assigned Paygo Quantities. To the extent the Project Participant fails to pay any amounts when due under the Participant Custodial Agreement with respect to Monthly Excess Quantities or Assigned Paygo Quantities, Buyer shall promptly transfer the resulting Excess Receivables (as defined in Exhibit G) to Seller, and the transfer of such Excess Receivables shall satisfy Buyer’s payment obligation with respect thereto.
(b) After the Annual Quantity has been delivered for any Contract Year, Seller shall pay Buyer the Day-Ahead Average Price with respect to any remaining Monthly Projected Quantities for any such Contract Year.
Section 3.4 No Obligation to Take Base Energy. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Buyer shall not be required to purchase and receive any Base Energy hereunder, and Seller shall remarket any portion of the Contract Quantity that is Base Energy pursuant to the provisions of Exhibit C.
Section 3.5 Reduction of Contract Quantity. The Parties recognize and agree that the Contract Quantity may be reduced in a Reset Period pursuant to the re-pricing methodology described in the Re-Pricing Agreement if necessary to achieve a successful remarketing of the Bonds. The Parties agree further that if, pursuant to the Re-Pricing Agreement, Buyer and the Calculation Agent (as defined in the Bond Indenture) determine in connection with the establishment of any new Reset Period that: (i) such Reset Period will be the final Reset Period and (ii) such Reset Period will end prior to the end of the original Delivery Period, then (A) the Delivery Period will be deemed to be modified so that it ends at the end of such Reset Period, and Item 2
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ARTICLE IV.
FAILURE TO DELIVER OR TAKE ENERGY
Section 4.1 Assigned Product. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither Seller nor Buyer shall have any liability or other obligation to one another under this Agreement for any failure to Schedule, take, or deliver Assigned Product other than as set forth in Section 5(a) of Exhibit C for any failure to Schedule, take or deliver Assigned Energy.
Section 4.2 Failure to Deliver or Take Due to Force Majeure. If with respect to all or any portion of the Contract Quantity of Base Energy:
(a) Buyer fails to take or Seller fails to deliver all or any portion of the Contract Quantity at any Delivery Point pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; and (b) such failure is due to Force Majeure claimed by either Party, then Seller shall pay to Buyer the result determined by the following formula with respect to each such Delivery Point:
P = Q x IP
Where:
P = The amount payable by Seller under this Section 4.2; Q = The quantity of Energy described in the lead-in to this Section 4.2; and
IP = With respect to Base Energy, the Contract Index Price applicable to such Delivery Hour and Energy Delivery Point for Base Energy.
The Parties acknowledge and agree that any failure to deliver the Annual Quantity of Assigned Energy, whether or not due to Force Majeure, is subject to the terms of Section 5(a) of Exhibit C.
ARTICLE V.
TRANSMISSION AND DELIVERY; COMMUNICATIONS
Section 5.1 Delivery of Energy.
(a) Assigned Product. All Assigned Energy delivered under this Agreement shall be Scheduled at the applicable Assigned Delivery Point and in accordance with the terms of the applicable Assignment Agreement. All other Assigned Product shall be delivered consistent with the terms of the applicable Assignment Agreement. Except as set forth in the two foregoing sentences, Buyer and Seller shall have no liability or obligations under this Article V with respect to Assigned Product.
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15 (b) Updates to Exhibits. Buyer and Seller may, upon mutual agreement, update Exhibit A-1 to modify the Delivery Points thereunder, provided that the Parties shall promptly notify the Swap Counterparty of any such updates and furthermore shall update the corresponding exhibits to the Buyer Swap and the Seller Swap in accordance with the terms thereof. Furthermore, following the Initial EPS Energy Period and thereafter in connection with the establishment, expiration or termination of any subsequent EPS Energy Period, the Parties shall update (i) the exhibits hereto in accordance with Section 6.2 and (ii) the exhibits to the Buyer Swap and the Seller Swap in accordance with the terms thereof. For the avoidance doubt, such updates will reflect that deliveries will be made to (A) the Energy Delivery Point at the Day-Ahead Market Price for any Base Energy and (B) an Assigned Delivery Point at the Day-Ahead Average Price for any Assigned Energy.
Section 5.2 Scheduling. Scheduling of Assigned Energy shall be in accordance with the applicable Assignment Agreement.
Section 5.3 Title and Risk of Loss. The transfer of title and risk of loss for all Assigned Product other than Assigned Energy shall be in accordance with the applicable Assignment Agreement; provided that all Assignment Agreements shall provide for the transfer of Renewable Energy Credits in accordance with WREGIS.
Section 5.4 PCC1 Product, Long-Term PCC1 Product, and PCC2 Product. To the extent that any Assigned Product is PCC1 Product, Long-Term PCC1 Product or PCC2 Product, the following provisions apply:
(a) Eligibility. Seller, and, if applicable, its successors, represents and warrants that throughout the Delivery Term of this Agreement that: (i) the Clean Energy Project qualifies and is certified by the CEC as an Eligible Renewable Energy Resource as such term is defined in Public Utilities Code Section 399.12 or Section 399.16; and (ii) the Clean Energy Project’s output delivered to Buyer qualifies under the requirements of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard. To the extent a change in law occurs after execution of this Agreement that causes this representation and warranty to be materially false or misleading, it shall not be an Event of Default if Seller has used commercially reasonable efforts to comply with such change in law. [STC 6, Non-Modifiable. (Source: D.07-11-025, Attachment A.) D.08-04-009]. As used above, any capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Assignment Agreement.
(b) Transfer of Renewable Energy Credits. Seller and, if applicable, its successors, represents and warrants that throughout the Delivery Term of this Agreement the renewable energy credits transferred to Buyer conform to the definition and attributes required for compliance with the California Renewables Portfolio Standard, as set forth in California Public Utilities Commission Decision 08-08-028, and as may be modified by subsequent decision of the California Public Utilities Commission or by subsequent legislation. To the extent a change in law occurs after execution of this Agreement that causes this representation and warranty to be materially false or misleading, it shall not be an Event of Default if Seller has used commercially reasonable efforts to comply with such change in law. [STC REC-1, Non-modifiable. D.11-01- 025]. As used above, any capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Assignment Agreement.
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16 (c) Tracking of RECs in WREGIS. Seller warrants that all necessary steps to allow the Renewable Energy Credits transferred to Buyer to be tracked in the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System will be taken prior to the first delivery under the contract. [STC REC-2, Non-modifiable. D.11-01-025]. As used above, any capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Assignment Agreement. (d) Governing Law. This Agreement and the rights and duties of the Parties hereunder shall be governed by and construed, enforced and performed in accordance with the Laws of the State of California, without regard to principles of conflicts of law. To the extent enforceable at such time, each Party waives its respective right to any jury trial with respect to any litigation arising under or in connection with this Agreement. [STC 17, Non-Modifiable. (Source:
D.07-11-025, Attachment A) D.08-04-009]
(e) Seller Representations and Warranties.
Seller represents and warrants:
(i) Seller has the right to sell the Assigned Product from the Applicable Project;
(ii) Seller has not sold the Assigned Product or any REC or other attributes of the Assigned Product to be transferred to Buyer to any other person or entity;
(iii) the Energy component of the Assigned Product produced by the Applicable Project for PCC2 Product and purchased by Seller for resale to Buyer hereunder is not being sold by Seller back to the Applicable Project or PPA Supplier;
(iv) Assigned Energy and Assigned RECs to be purchased and sold pursuant to this Agreement are not committed to another party; (v) the Assigned Product is free and clear of all liens or other encumbrances;
(vi) Seller will deliver to Buyer all Assigned Energy and associated RECs generated by the Applicable Project for PCC1 Product in compliance with the requirements set forth in California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16(b)(1) and the California RPS compliance requirements for Portfolio Content Category 1 as set forth in CPUC Decision 11-12-052, if applicable;
(vii) Seller will deliver to Buyer all Assigned Energy and associated RECs generated by the Applicable Project for PCC2 Product in compliance with the requirements set forth in California Public Utilities Code 399.16(b)(2) and the California RPS compliance requirements for Portfolio Content Category 2 as set forth in CPUC Decision 11-12-052, if applicable;
(viii) Seller will deliver to Buyer all Assigned Energy and associated RECs generated by the Applicable Project for Long-Term PCC1 Item 2
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(ix) the Assigned Product supplied to Buyer under this Agreement that is Long-Term PCC1 Product will be sourced solely from Applicable Projects that have an Assignment Period of ten years or more in length, or otherwise in compliance with the California Long Term Contracting Requirements; and
(x) Seller will cooperate and work with Buyer, the CEC, and/or the CPUC to provide any documentation required by the CPUC or CEC to support the Product’s classification as Portfolio Content Category 1 or Portfolio Content Category 2, as applicable, as set forth in California Public Utilities Code Sections 399.16(b)(1) or 399.16(b)(2), as applicable, and compliance with the California Long-Term Contracting Requirements, if applicable.
Seller further represents and warrants to Buyer that, to the extent that the PCC1 Product sold by Seller is a resale of part or all of a contract between Seller and one or more third parties, Seller represents, warrants and covenants that the resale complies with the following conditions in (i) through (iv) below during the Assignment Period and throughout the generation period:
(i) the original upstream third-party contract(s) meets the criteria of California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16(b)(1);
(ii) this Agreement transfers only electricity and RECs that have not yet been generated prior to the Assignment Period;
(iii) the electricity transferred by this Agreement is transferred to Buyer in real time; and
(iv) if the Applicable Project has an agreement to dynamically transfer electricity to a California balancing authority, the transactions implemented under this Agreement are not contrary to any condition imposed by a balancing authority participating in the dynamic transfer arrangement.
Seller further represents and warrants to Buyer that, to the extent that the PCC2 Product sold by Seller is a resale of part or all of a contract between Seller and one or more third parties, Seller represents, warrants and covenants that the resale complies with the following conditions in (i) through (v) below during the Assignment Period and throughout the generation period:
(i) the original upstream third-party contract(s) meets the criteria of California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16(b)(2);
(ii) this Agreement transfers only electricity and RECs that have not yet been generated prior to the Assignment Period;
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(iv) this Agreement retains the scheduling of the substitute electricity into a California balancing authority as set out in the original firming and shaping transaction; and
(v) this Agreement continues to provide incremental electricity scheduled into a California balancing authority.
(f) Subsequent Changes in Law. In the event that the qualifications or requirements of the RPS program, PCC1 Product, PCC2 Product, or the California Long-Term Contracting Requirements change, Seller shall take commercially reasonable actions to meet the amended qualifications or requirements of the RPS Law, PCC1 Product, PCC2 Product or the California Long-Term Contracting Requirements but will not be required to incur any unreimbursed costs to comply with the RPS Law, PCC1, PCC2 or the California Long- Term Contracting Requirements, collectively.
(g) Limitations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Parties acknowledge and agree as follows:
(i) Seller has relied exclusively upon the representations and warranties of each respective seller set forth in the Assignment Agreements in making the representations and warranties set forth in this Section
5.4 and has not performed any independent investigation with respect thereto;
(ii) Seller agrees that it will terminate or cause MSCG to terminate the applicable Assignment Period in the event that any representation or warranty in this Section 5.4 proves to be incorrect in any respect; (iii) Buyer agrees that its sole recourse for any breach of the provisions of this Section 5.4 shall be the termination of the applicable Assignment Period and Buyer shall have no other recourse against Seller or remedies under this Agreement; and
(iv) Section 5.4(d) shall only apply to the provisions of this Section 5.4 and all other provisions of this Agreement shall remain subject to and interpreted in accordance with Section 18.4.
Section 5.5 Deliveries within CAISO or Another Balancing Authority. The Parties acknowledge that Energy delivered by Seller at a Delivery Point within CAISO or another Balancing Authority will be delivered in accordance with the CAISO Tariff and rules of the Balancing Authority as applicable. Scheduling such Energy in accordance with the requirements of the applicable Balancing Authority shall constitute delivery of such Energy to Buyer; provided that, any Assigned Products associated with such Energy are also delivered to Buyer hereunder.
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ARTICLE VI.
PARTIAL ASSIGNMENTS OF PPAS
Section 6.1 Future PPA Assignments. Subsequent to the Initial EPS Energy Period, the Project Participant, Seller, Buyer and MSCG shall cooperate to obtain EPS Compliant Energy for delivery hereunder in accordance with the Assignment Letter Agreement.
Section 6.2 Updates to Exhibits A-1 and A-2.
(a) To the extent that an EPS Energy Period terminates or expires and Assigned Energy is not available for delivery immediately following (i) the end of the period for which Force Majeure is deemed to occur in the event of an early termination of an EPS Energy Period or (ii) the expiration of an EPS Energy Period, the Parties shall update (A) Exhibit A-1 to reflect an increase in the Hourly Quantities of Base Energy and (B) Exhibit A-2 to reflect a decrease in the Monthly Projected Quantities associated with the relevant Assigned PPA, in each case, in an amount equal to the Assigned Energy associated with the EPS Energy Period that terminated or expired. For the avoidance of doubt, any updates to Exhibits A-1 and A-2 due to an early termination of an EPS Energy Period shall be effective as of the earlier of (1) the commencement of an “Assignment Period” under a replacement Assignment Agreement or (2) the start of the third Month following the Month in which such early termination occurs. (b) In connection with the execution of any subsequent Assignment Agreement, the Parties shall update Exhibits A-1 and A-2 to reflect (i) appropriate decreases in the Hourly Quantities of Base Energy and increases in the Monthly Projected Quantities of Assigned Energy and (ii) any other changes in connection therewith.
ARTICLE VII.
ENERGY REMARKETING
Section 7.1 Energy Remarketing. If (a) the Project Participant is in default under the Power Supply Contract or does not require or is unable to receive all or any portion of the Energy purchased by Buyer under this Agreement as a result of (i) the Project Participant’s decreased Energy requirements, (ii) decreased demand by the Project Participant’s retail customers and its request that such Energy be remarketed or (iii) EPS Compliant Energy not being available for delivery hereunder; or (b) a quantity of Assigned Energy less than the Annual Quantity is delivered hereunder in any Contract Year for any reason other than Force Majeure, then Buyer shall request (and pursuant to Exhibit C may be deemed to request) remarketing services from Seller pursuant to the provisions of Exhibit C.
Section 7.2 Delegation of Authority. Buyer hereby acknowledges and agrees that Seller shall delegate its rights and obligations under Exhibit C to MSCG pursuant to the Energy Management Agreement.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 8.1 Representations and Warranties. As a material inducement to entering into this Agreement, each Party, with respect to itself, hereby represents and warrants to the other Party as of the Execution Date as follows:
(a) it is duly organized and validly existing under the Laws of the state in which it is organized;
(b) it has all requisite power and authority to conduct its business, to own its properties and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement; (c) there is no litigation, action, suit, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the best of such Party’s knowledge, threatened, before or by any Government Agency, which could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the performance by such Party of its obligations under this Agreement or that questions the validity, binding effect or enforceability hereof, any action taken or to be taken by such Party pursuant hereto, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby;
(d) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Party has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Party and does not require any approval or consent of any security holder of such Party or any holder (or any trustee for any holder) of any indebtedness or other obligation of such Party; (e) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Party by an appropriate officer or authorized Person of such Party and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Party, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity; (f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Party shall not violate any provision of any Law, decree or other legal or regulatory determination applicable to it;
(g) the execution, delivery and performance by such Party of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the incurrence by such Party of its financial obligations under this Agreement, shall not result in any violation of any term of any material contract or agreement applicable to it, or any of its charter or bylaws or of any license, permit, franchise, judgment, writ, injunction or regulation, decree, order, charter, Law or ordinance applicable to it or any of its properties or to any obligations incurred by it or by which it or any of its properties or obligations are bound or affected, or of any determination or award of any arbitrator applicable to it, and shall not conflict with, or cause a breach of, or default under, any such term or result in the creation of any lien upon any of its properties or assets, except with respect to Buyer, the lien of the Bond Indenture;
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(i) it enters this Agreement as a bona-fide, arm’s-length transaction involving the mutual exchange of consideration and, once executed by both Parties, considers this Agreement a legally enforceable contract.
Section 8.2 Additional Representations and Warranties of Buyer. As a material inducement to entering into this Agreement, Buyer hereby represents and warrants to Seller as of the Execution Date as follows:
(a) Buyer is entering into this Agreement for the purpose of acquiring Energy for sale to the Project Participant pursuant to the Power Supply Contract; (b) any amounts payable by Buyer under this Agreement shall (i) other than the Prepayment, be payable as an item of Operating Expense under (and as defined in) the Bond Indenture, and (ii) not constitute an indebtedness or liability of Buyer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation or restriction applicable to Buyer; (c) Buyer will promptly alert Seller of any notice received by Buyer alleging a breach under the Bond Indenture or of any covenant of Buyer in the agreements entered into by Buyer in connection with the Clean Energy Project;
(d) Buyer shall not (i) enter into any Bond Documents (excluding any contracts applicable to Energy being resold by Buyer or the Project Participant (or a related joint powers authority selling Energy to the Project Participant)), (ii) consent to, waive or agree to or permit any material amendment to or rescission of any such Bond Documents or (iii) consent to, waive or agree to permit any amendment (whether or not material) to or rescission of the Bond Indenture, in each case, without the prior written consent of Seller; (e) Buyer shall collect and forthwith cause to be deposited in the relevant funds pursuant to the Bond Indenture all amounts payable to it pursuant to the Power Supply Contract. Buyer shall enforce the provisions of the Power Supply Contract, as well as any other contract or contracts entered into relating to the Clean Energy Project, and duly perform its covenants and agreements thereunder. Buyer shall not consent or agree to or permit any termination or rescission of or amendment to or otherwise take any action under or in connection with the Power Supply Contract which will impair the ability of Buyer to pay all of its debts and obligations as they come due; provided that this provision shall not prevent Buyer from otherwise taking any action under or in connection with the Power Supply Contract which is expressly permitted pursuant to the provisions thereof. A copy of the Power Supply Contract and any amendment thereto certified by an authorized officer of Buyer shall be provided to Seller. Buyer shall not enter into any new Power Supply Contract following the Bond Closing Date without the prior written consent of Seller;
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22 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as such may be modified by the provisions of the Bond Indenture, in which complete and correct entries shall be made of its transactions relating to the Clean Energy Project, the amount of revenues and the application thereof and each fund and account established under the Bond Indenture and relating to its costs and charges under the Power Supply Contract and any other contracts for the sale or purchase of Energy, and which, together with all contracts and all other books and papers of Buyer relating to the Clean Energy Project, shall, subject to the terms thereof, at all times during regular business hours be subject to the inspection of Seller;
(g) Buyer shall from time to time duly pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, or required payments in lieu thereof, lawfully imposed upon the properties of Buyer or upon the rights, revenues, income, receipts, and other moneys, securities and funds of Buyer when the same shall become due, and all lawful claims for labor and material and supplies, except those taxes, assessments, charges or claims which Buyer shall in good faith contest by proper legal proceedings if Buyer shall in all such cases have set aside on its books reserves deemed adequate by Buyer with respect thereto; (h) Buyer shall at all times maintain its existence and shall do and perform or cause to be done and performed all acts and things required to maintain its existence; and (i) Buyer shall not consolidate or amalgamate with, or merge with or into, or transfer all or substantially all its assets to, or reorganize, reincorporate or reconstitute into or as, another entity unless (i) prior to such event, Buyer receives confirmation from Seller that such event does not trigger a termination event under this Agreement or the Buyer Swap and (ii) at the time of such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, transfer, reorganization, reincorporation or reconstitution, the resulting, surviving or transferee entity assumes all the obligations of Buyer under this Agreement and the Buyer Swap.
Section 8.3 Warranty of Title. Seller warrants that it will have the right to convey and will transfer good and merchantable title to all Energy sold under this Agreement and delivered by it to Buyer, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims. EXCEPT FOR
THE WARRANTIES EXPRESSLY MADE BY SELLER IN THIS ARTICLE VIII, SELLER
HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Section 8.4 Funding Agreement.
(a) Except (i) to cure any ambiguity, supply any omission, or cure or correct any defect or inconsistent provision in the Funding Agreement, (ii) to insert such provisions clarifying matters or questions arising under the Funding Agreement as are necessary or desirable and are not contrary to or inconsistent therewith, (iii) to convert or supplement any provision in a manner consistent with the intent of the Funding Agreement and the other Transaction Documents or (iv) for any transfer of the Funding Agreement to MSCG pursuant to [Section 17.6(a)] of the Energy Management Agreement, Seller agrees that it shall not agree to any amendment, alteration, modification, assignment, sale or transfer of the Funding Agreement without receipt of (A) a Rating Confirmation and (B) the prior written consent of Buyer; provided that, for the avoidance Item 2
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(b) Upon the occurrence of an [Event of Default as defined in the Funding Agreement], Seller shall (i) exercise any right it has pursuant to [___] of the Funding Agreement to designate an early termination thereof and (ii) exercise Commercially Reasonable Efforts to recover amounts due thereunder. Additionally, Seller agrees that it shall not withdraw the Early [Repayment Amount] under and as defined in the Funding Agreement pursuant to the provision of [Exhibit A to the Funding Agreement titled “Early Repayment Date and Early Repayment Amount”] unless such Early Repayment Amount plus other available funds are sufficient for the early redemption of the Bonds.
Section 8.5 Notice of PSC Termination. Seller covenants and agrees that it shall provide prompt notice to MSCG if the Project Participant makes a PSC Remarketing Termination for any Reset Period.
ARTICLE IX.
TAXES
Seller shall (i) be responsible for all ad valorem, excise and other taxes assessed with respect to Energy delivered pursuant to this Agreement upstream of the Delivery Points, and (ii) indemnify Buyer and its Affiliates for any such taxes paid by Buyer or its Affiliates. Buyer shall (x) be responsible for all such taxes assessed at or downstream of the Delivery Points, and (y) indemnify Seller and its Affiliates for any such taxes paid by Seller or its Affiliates.
ARTICLE X.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Section 10.1 Arbitration. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be determined by final, non-appealable binding arbitration in San Francisco, California before three (3) arbitrators. The arbitration shall be administered by Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) pursuant to its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures. Within 15 days after the commencement of arbitration, each of the Parties shall select one person to act as arbitrator, and the two so-selected arbitrators shall select a third arbitrator (the “chairperson”) within 30 days of the commencement of the arbitration. If either Party is unable or fails to select one person to act as arbitrator, such arbitrator shall be appointed by JAMS. If the Party-selected arbitrators are unable or fail to agree upon a chairperson, the chairperson shall be appointed by JAMS. The chairperson shall be a person who has experience in renewable energy-related transactions, and none of the arbitrators shall have been previously employed by either Party or have any direct pecuniary interest in either Party or the subject matter of the arbitration, unless such conflict is expressly acknowledged and waived in writing by each of the Parties. The Parties shall maintain the confidential nature of the arbitration proceeding and any award, including any hearing(s), except as may be necessary to prepare for or conduct the arbitration hearing on the merits, or except as necessary in connection with a court application for a preliminary remedy, a Item 2
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24 judicial challenge to an award or its enforcement, or unless otherwise required by law or judicial decision. Any arbitration proceedings, decision or award rendered hereunder and the validity, effect and interpretation of this arbitration provision shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitrator(s) shall have no authority to award consequential, treble, exemplary, or punitive damages of any type or kind regardless of whether such damages may be available under any law or right, with the Parties hereby affirmatively waiving their rights, if any, to recover or claim such damages. In any arbitration arising out of or related to this Agreement, the arbitrators shall award to the prevailing Party, if any, the costs and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred in seeking to enforce the application of this Section 10.1 and by the prevailing party in connection with the arbitration. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.1, any costs incurred by a Party in seeking judicial enforcement of any written decision of the arbitrators shall be chargeable to and borne exclusively by the Party against whom such court order is obtained.
The award shall be final and binding on the Parties and judgment upon any award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 10.2 Dispute Resolution.
(a) Judicial Reference. Without limiting the provisions in Section 10.1, if Section 10.1 is ineffective or unenforceable, any dispute between the Parties arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or its performance, breach, or termination (including the existence, validity and interpretation of this Agreement and the applicability of any statute of limitation period) (each, a “Dispute”) shall be resolved by a reference proceeding in California in accordance with the provisions of Sections 638 et seq. of the California Code of Civil Procedure (“CCP”), or their successor sections (a “Reference Proceeding”), which shall constitute the exclusive remedy for the resolution of any Dispute. As a condition precedent to initiating a Reference Proceeding with respect to any Dispute, the Parties shall comply with the provisions of Section 10.2(b).
(b) Notice of Dispute. Prior to initiating the Reference Proceeding, a Party (the “Disputing Party”) shall provide the other Party (the “Responding Party”) with a written notice of each issue in dispute, a proposed means for resolving each such issue, and support for such position (the “Notice of Dispute”). Within 10 days after receiving the Notice of Dispute, the Responding Party shall provide the Disputing Party with a written notice of each additional issue (if any) with respect to the dispute raised by the Notice of Dispute, a proposed means for resolving every issue in dispute, and support for such position (the “Dispute Response”). Thereafter, the Parties shall meet to discuss the matter and attempt in good faith to reach a negotiated resolution of the dispute.
If the Parties do not resolve the dispute by mutual agreement within 60 days after receipt of the Dispute Response, (the “Negotiation Period”), then either Party may provide to the other Party written notice of intent for judicial reference (the “Impasse Notice”) in accordance with the further provisions of this Section 10.2.
(c) Applicability; Selection of Referees.
(i) The Party that provides the Impasse Notice shall nominate one referee at the same time it provides the Impasse Notice. The other Party shall nominate one referee within 10 days of receiving the Impasse Notice. The two referees (the “Party-Appointed Referees”) shall appoint a third referee (the “Third Referee”, together with the Item 2
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25 Party-Appointed Referees, the “Referees”). The Party-Appointed Referees shall be competent and experienced in matters involving the electric energy business in the United States, with at least 10 years of electric industry experience as a practicing attorney. The Third Referee shall be an active or retired California state or federal judge. Each of the Party-Appointed Referees and the Third Referee shall be impartial and independent of either Party and of the other referees and not employed by any of the Parties in any prior matter.
(ii) If the Party-Appointed Referees are unable to agree on the Third Referee within 45 days from delivery of the Impasse Notice, then the Third Referee shall be appointed pursuant to CCP Section 640(b) in an action filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco (the “Court”), and with due regard given to the selection criteria above. A request for appointment of a referee may be heard on an ex parte or expedited basis, and the Parties agree that irreparable harm would result if ex parte relief is not granted. Pursuant to CCP Section 170.6, each Party shall have one (1) peremptory challenge to the referee selected by the Court. (d) Discovery; Proceedings.
(i) The Parties agree that time is of the essence in conducting the Reference Proceeding. Accordingly, the referees shall be requested, subject to change in the time periods specified herein for good cause shown, to (i) set the matter for a status and trial-setting conference within 20 days after the date of selection of the Third Referee, (ii) if practicable, try all issues of law or fact within 180 days after the date of the conference, and (iii) report a statement of decision within 20 days after the matter has been submitted for decision.
(ii) Discovery and other pre-hearing procedures shall be conducted as agreed to by the Parties, or if they cannot agree, as determined by the Third Referee after discussion with the Parties regarding the need for discovery and other pre-hearing procedures.
(iii) Except as expressly set forth herein, the Third Referee shall determine the manner in which the Reference Proceeding is conducted, including the time and place of hearings, the order of presentation of evidence, and all other questions that arise with respect to the course of the Reference Proceeding. The Reference Proceeding, including the trial, shall be conducted at a neutral location selected by the Parties, or if not agreed by the Parties, by the Third Referee, in San Francisco, California. (iv) All proceedings and hearings conducted before the referees, except for trial, shall be conducted without a court reporter, except that when any Party so requests, a court reporter will be used at any hearing conducted before the referees, and the referees will be provided a courtesy copy of the transcript. The Party making such a request shall have the obligation to arrange for and pay the court reporter. (e) Decision. The referees shall render a written statement of decision setting forth findings of fact and conclusions of law. The decision shall be entered as a judgment in the Item 2
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26 court in accordance with the provisions of CCP Sections 644 and 645. The decision shall be appealable to the same extent and in the same manner that such decision would be appealable if rendered by a judge of the Court. The Parties intend this general reference agreement to be specifically enforceable in accordance with the CCP.
(f) Expenses. Each Party shall bear the compensation and expenses of its respective Party-Appointed Referee, own counsel, witnesses, consultants and employees. All other expenses of judicial reference shall be split equally between the Parties.
ARTICLE XI.
FORCE MAJEURE
Section 11.1 Applicability of Force Majeure. To the extent either Party is prevented by Force Majeure from carrying out, in whole or part, its obligations under this Agreement and such Party (the “Claiming Party”) gives notice and details of the Force Majeure to the other Party as soon as practicable, then the Claiming Party shall be excused from the performance of its obligations with respect to this Agreement (other than the obligation to make payments then due or becoming due with respect to performance prior to the Force Majeure). The Claiming Party shall mitigate the Force Majeure with all reasonable dispatch. For the duration of the Claiming Party’s non-performance (and only for such period), the non-Claiming Party shall not be required to perform or resume performance of its obligations to the Claiming Party corresponding to the obligations of the Claiming Party excused by Force Majeure.
Section 11.2 Settlement of Labor Disputes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Parties agree that the settlement of strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances shall be within the sole discretion of the Party experiencing such disturbance, and the failure of a Party to settle such strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances shall not prevent the existence of Force Majeure or of reasonable dispatch to remedy the same.
ARTICLE XII.
GOVERNMENTAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
Section 12.1 Compliance with Laws. This Agreement shall be subject to all present and future Laws of any Government Agency having jurisdiction, and neither Party has knowingly undertaken or will knowingly undertake or knowingly cause to be undertaken any activity that would conflict with such Laws; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to restrict or limit either Party’s right to object to or contest any such Law, or its application to this Agreement or the transactions undertaken hereunder, and neither acquiescence therein or compliance therewith for any period of time shall be construed as a waiver of such right.
Section 12.2 Contests. Excluding all matters involving a contractual dispute between the Parties, no Party shall contest, cause to be contested or in any way actively support the contest of the equity, fairness, reasonableness or lawfulness of any terms or conditions set forth or established pursuant to this Agreement, as those terms or conditions may be at issue before any Government Agency in any proceeding, if the successful result of such contest would be to preclude or excuse the performance of this Agreement by either Party.
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27 Section 12.3 Defense of Agreement. Excluding all matters involving a contractual dispute between the Parties, each Party shall hereafter defend and support this Agreement before any Government Agency in any proceeding, if the substance, validity or enforceability of all or any part of this Agreement is hereafter directly challenged or if any proposed changes in regulatory practices or procedures would have the effect of making this Agreement invalid or unenforceable or would otherwise materially affect the rights or obligations of the Parties under this Agreement.
ARTICLE XIII.
ASSIGNMENT
Neither Party shall assign this Agreement or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other Party; provided, however, that:
(a) pursuant to the Bond Indenture, Buyer may, without the consent of Seller, transfer, sell, pledge, encumber or assign this Agreement to the Trustee in connection with any financing or other financial arrangements; provided that Buyer shall not assign this Agreement unless, contemporaneously with the effectiveness of such assignment, Buyer also assigns the Buyer Swap (and the Buyer Custodial Agreement) to the same assignee; (b) upon written notice to Buyer, Seller may, without Buyer’s consent, assign this Agreement to an Affiliate of Seller which assignment shall constitute a novation; provided that, Seller shall not assign this Agreement unless (i) Seller delivers a Rating Confirmation to Buyer with respect to such assignment, (ii) contemporaneously with the effectiveness of such assignment, Seller also assigns the Seller Swap, the Seller Custodial Agreement and the Master Custodial Agreement to the same assignee and either (A) Seller assigns the Funding Agreement and Energy Management Agreement to the same assignee or (B) the assignee provides to Buyer a guarantee of its obligations by Morgan Stanley, and (iii) the assignee is a special purpose entity approved by Buyer or its obligations under this Agreement are guaranteed or otherwise supported by (A) Morgan Stanley or (B) a Funding Recipient to the satisfaction of Buyer; and (c) if either (A) Seller notifies Buyer that the Funding Agreement will not be replaced, refinanced or re-priced as of the end of any Interest Rate Period, (B) Seller is unable to provide, under the Re-Pricing Agreement, an Estimated Available Discount (as defined in the Re-Pricing Agreement) that is equal to or greater than the Minimum Discount under the Power Supply Contract, or (C) both (1) Seller has agreed under the Re-Pricing Agreement to provide an Available Discount equal to or greater than the Minimum Discount but for a Reset Period shorter than the entire remaining term to maturity of this Agreement and (2) Buyer has identified a potential assignee that has agreed to provide an Available Discount equal to or greater than the Minimum Discount for a Reset Period equal to the entire remaining term to maturity of this Agreement then, at the request of Buyer, Seller will reasonably cooperate with Buyer to cause Seller’s (or Seller’s Affiliate’s, if applicable) right, title and interest in this Agreement, the Re-Pricing Agreement, the Seller Swap, the Seller Custodial Agreement and any Specified Investment Agreement with a term that extends past the then-current Interest Rate Period to which Seller or any Affiliate is a party and all agreements related to any of the foregoing (the “Transaction Documents”) to be novated to a replacement seller; provided that (x) a Rating Confirmation is obtained for any Bonds required to be redeemed on the first Mandatory Purchase Date following the effective date of such novation, Item 2
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28 (y) the Swap Counterparty shall have provided its prior written consent to such assignment in accordance with the terms of the Seller Swap, and (z) after giving effect to such novation, Seller will not have any obligations (contingent or otherwise, including any obligation to make or repeat any representations or warranties other than basic representations on authority and the right to transfer its rights, title and interests under this Agreement without encumbrances) or be required to make any payment under any Transaction Document or otherwise in connection with or following such novation other than any obligations that would have existed or payments that would have been required had this Agreement terminated as of the end of the last Reset Period that commenced prior to such novation.
ARTICLE XIV.
PAYMENTS
Section 14.1 Monthly Statements.
(a) No later than the 5th day of each Month during the Delivery Period (excluding the first Month of the Delivery Period) and the first Month following the end of the Delivery Period, Buyer shall deliver to Seller a statement (a “Buyer’s Statement”) listing any other amounts due to Buyer in connection with this Agreement with respect to the prior Month(s). (b) No later than the 10th day of each Month during the Delivery Period (excluding the first Month of the Delivery Period) and the first Month following the end of the Delivery Period (the “Billing Date”), Seller shall deliver a statement (a “Billing Statement”) to Buyer and each of the Parties to the Participant Custodial Agreement indicating (i) the total amount due to Buyer, if any, under Article IV, Article V, Article VII and Exhibit C with respect to the prior Month(s), (ii) any amounts due to Seller in connection with this Agreement with respect to the prior Month(s), and (iii) the net amount due to Buyer or Seller; provided that invoicing for Monthly Excess Quantities and Assigned Paygo Quantities shall occur under the Participant Custodial Agreement. If a Participant Monthly Statement (as defined in the Participant Custodial Agreement) for an Assigned PPA has not been delivered by the 10th day of the Month following deliveries2, Seller shall provisionally prepare or cause to be prepared a Billing Statement for this Agreement that assumes all of the Monthly Projected Quantities were delivered under the applicable Assigned PPA for such Month, and any subsequent resettlements required with respect thereto shall occur under the Participant Custodial Agreement. As set forth in Section 5(a) of Exhibit C, in any Billing Statement that Seller delivers that reflects a Provisional Payment due, Seller shall indicate (x) the total amount of any Provisional Payment due for such Month and (y) the portion of such Provisional Payment that reflects the Net Participant Price that would otherwise be payable with respect thereto. The Parties acknowledge and agree that all amounts owed to and from Seller in connection with the Clean Energy Project shall be paid pursuant to the Master Custodial Agreement, and the Billing Statement may be provided by MSCG, as Seller’s agent, in the form of a consolidated statement regarding all amounts owed to and from Seller in connection with the Clean Energy Project for each Month, including payments to be made under this Agreement, the Funding Agreement, the Energy Management Agreement and the Seller Swap. 2 NTD: Parties to discuss PPA invoice timing.
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29 (c) Upon request by either Party, the other Party shall deliver such supporting documentation of the foregoing as such requesting Party may reasonably request.
Section 14.2 Payment.
(a) If the Billing Statement indicates an amount due from Buyer, then Buyer shall remit such amount to Seller by wire transfer (pursuant to Seller’s instructions), in immediately available funds, on or before the later of (i) the 25th day of the Month following the most recent Month to which such Billing Statement relates, or (ii) the 10th day following Buyer’s receipt of Seller’s Billing Statement, or if either such day is not a Business Day, the following Business Day. If the Billing Statement indicates an amount due from Seller, then Seller shall remit such amount to Buyer by wire transfer (pursuant to the Trustee’s instructions for payments due under this Agreement, provided that amounts due from Seller under Section 5(a) of Exhibit C shall be paid to the Provisional Payments Account under and as defined in the Participant Custodial Agreement), in immediately available funds, on or before the later of (i) the 24 th day of the Month
following the most recent Month to which such Billing Statement relates, or (ii) the 10th day following Seller’s receipt of Buyer’s Statement, or if either such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business Day.
(b) If Buyer fails to issue a Buyer’s Statement with respect to any Month, Seller shall not be required to estimate any amounts due to Buyer for such Month, provided that Buyer may include any such amount on subsequent Buyer’s Statements issued within the next sixty (60) days. The sixty (60)-day deadline in this subsection (b) replaces the two (2)-year deadline in Section 14.5 with respect to any claim by any non-delivering Party of inaccuracy in any estimated invoice issued or payment made pursuant to this subsection (b).
Section 14.3 Payment of Disputed Amounts. If Seller disputes any amounts included in the Buyer’s Statement, Seller shall (a) (except in the case of manifest error) nonetheless calculate the Billing Statement based on the amounts included in Buyer’s Statement and (b) pay any amount required by the Billing Statement in accordance with Section 14.2 without regard to any right of set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or other defenses to payment that Seller may have; provided, however, that Seller shall have the right, after payment, to dispute any amounts included in a Buyer’s Statement or otherwise used to calculate payments due under this Agreement pursuant to Section 14.5(b). If Buyer disputes any amounts included in the Billing Statement, Buyer may withhold payment to the extent of the disputed amount; provided, however, that interest shall be due at the Default Rate for any withheld amount later found to have been properly due.
Section 14.4 Late Payment. If a Party owing a net payment under Section 14.2 fails to remit the full amount payable when due, interest on the unpaid portion shall accrue from the date due until the date of payment at the Default Rate.
Section 14.5 Audit; Adjustments.
(a) A Party shall have the right, at its own expense, upon reasonable notice to the other Party and at reasonable times, to examine and audit and to obtain copies of the relevant portion of the books, records, and telephone recordings of the other Party to the extent reasonably necessary, but only to such extent, to verify the accuracy of any statement, charge, payment, or Item 2
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30 computation made under this Agreement. This right to examine, audit, and obtain copies shall not be available with respect to proprietary information not directly relevant to transactions under this Agreement.
(b) Each Buyer’s Statement and each Billing Statement shall be conclusively presumed final and accurate and all associated claims for under- or overpayments shall be deemed waived unless such Buyer’s Statement or Billing Statement is objected to in writing, with adequate explanation and/or documentation, within two (2) years after the applicable Month of Energy delivery.
(c) All retroactive adjustments shall be paid in full by the Party owing payment within 30 days of notice and substantiation of such inaccuracy. If the Parties are unable to agree upon any retroactive adjustments requested by either Party within the time period specified in Section 14.5(b), then either Party may pursue any remedies available with respect to such adjustments at law or in equity. Retroactive adjustments for payments made based on incorrect Buyer’s Statements or Billing Statements shall bear interest at the Default Rate from the date such payment was made. Buyer shall cause the Project Participant to comply with the provisions of Section 14.5(a) to the extent necessary to allow Seller to verify any amounts due under this Agreement.
Section 14.6 Netting. The Parties shall net all amounts due and owing, including any past due amounts (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include any accrued interest), arising under this Agreement such that the Party owing the greater amount shall make a single payment of the net amount to the other Party in accordance with this Article XIV. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Seller shall not be entitled to net (i) any amounts that are in dispute or (ii) any payments due to Seller against (A) the Termination Payment if it becomes due, or (B) any payments due from Seller pursuant to Article IV, Article V or Exhibit C.
ARTICLE XV.
RECEIVABLES PURCHASES
In accordance with the provisions of Exhibit G, Buyer shall put and Seller shall purchase certain Put Receivables (as defined in Exhibit G) from Buyer relating to payment defaults by the Specified Project Participant (as defined in Exhibit G).
ARTICLE XVI.
NOTICES
Any notice, demand, or request required or authorized by this Agreement to be given by one Party to another Party shall be in writing and shall either be sent by electronic means, courier, or personally delivered (including overnight delivery service) to each of the notice recipients and addresses specified in Exhibit B for the receiving Party. Any such notice, demand, or request shall be deemed to be given (i) on the date it is delivered by electronic means, or (ii) when actually received if delivered by courier or personal delivery (including overnight delivery service). Each Party shall have the right, upon 10 days’ prior written notice to the other Party, to change its list of notice recipients and addresses in Exhibit B. The Parties may mutually agree in writing at any time to deliver notices, demands or requests through alternate or additional methods.
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31 Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Party may at any time notify the other Party that any notice, demand, statement or request to it must be provided by email transmission for a specified period of time or until further notice, and any communications delivered by means other than email transmission during the specified period of time shall be ineffective.
ARTICLE XVII.
ACCELERATION; TERMINATION; REMEDIES
Section 17.1 Acceleration Event. Each of the following events shall constitute an “Acceleration Event” under this Agreement:
(a) The acceleration of the Funding Recipient’s payment obligations under the Funding Agreement pursuant to Section [__] of the Funding Agreement due to an [Event of Default (as defined in the Funding Agreement)];
(b) Seller is unable to replace, refinance or re-price the Funding Agreement for any Reset Period by the date that is one week prior to the beginning of the first Month following a Reset Period;
(c) MSCG designates an “Early Termination Date” under the Energy Management Agreement due to the Project Participant making a PSC Remarketing Termination; (d) MSCG purchases the Funding Agreement from Seller pursuant to [Section
17.6(a)] of the Energy Management Agreement following the occurrence of a Ledger Event; or (e) a Failed Remarketing occurs.
Section 17.2 Energy Delivery Termination Events. Each of the following events shall constitute an “Energy Delivery Termination Event” under this Agreement:
Termination
Related to:
Energy Delivery
Termination Event:
(a) Ledger Event The occurrence of a Ledger Event.
(b) Termination
of Energy
Management
Agreement and
Failure to
Replace MSCG
Both (A) an “Early Termination Date” occurs under the Energy Management Agreement, and (B) Seller is unable to enter into a replacement Energy Management Agreement by the date that is 120 days following such Early Termination Date under the Energy Management Agreement (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, Seller may only enter into such a replacement Energy Management Agreement if Seller delivers a Rating Confirmation to Buyer with respect to its entry into such replacement Energy Management Agreement).
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Related to:
Energy Delivery
Termination Event:
(c) Termination
of a Buyer Swap
Both (A) an Early Termination Date (as defined in the Buyer Swap) is designated pursuant to the terms of the Buyer Swap for any reason or occurs automatically pursuant to the terms of the Buyer Swap based on an Event of Default or Termination Event (as each term is defined in the Buyer Swap), and (B) either the Seller Swap or the Buyer Swap is not replaced within the Swap Replacement Period.
(d) Termination
of a Seller Swap
Both (A) an Early Termination Date (as defined in the Seller Swap) is designated pursuant to the terms of the Seller Swap for any reason or occurs automatically pursuant to the terms of the Seller Swap based on an Event of Default or Termination Event (as each term is defined in the Seller Swap), and (B) either such Seller Swap or the Buyer Swap is not replaced within the Swap Replacement Period.
Section 17.3 Payments Following a Ledger Event. If a Ledger Event occurs and MSCG has not purchased the Funding Agreement pursuant to [Section 17.6(a)] of the Energy Management Agreement, then Seller shall pay to Buyer any amounts paid by MSCG to Seller pursuant to [Section 17.6(b)] of the Energy Management Agreement, which amounts will accrue from the first day of the Month following the Month during which a Ledger Event occurs until (but not including) the earlier of (a) an Early Termination Payment Date or (b) the Initial Mandatory Purchase Date (as defined in the Bond Indenture); provided that the Parties acknowledge and agree that such amounts shall not accrue for any Month in which an Early Termination Payment Date has been designated as a result of MSCG’s purchase of the Funding Agreement pursuant to [Section 17.6(a)] of the Energy Management Agreement.
Section 17.4 Remedies and Termination.
(a) Acceleration Event and Delivery Period Termination. An Energy Delivery Termination Date shall occur automatically upon the date of the occurrence of an Acceleration Event or an Energy Delivery Termination Event. As of the Energy Delivery Termination Date, (i) the Delivery Period shall end, (ii) the obligation of Seller to make any further deliveries of Energy to Buyer under this Agreement shall terminate and shall be replaced with a continuing obligation to make payment of the amounts set forth in Exhibit D-3 to Buyer until the earlier of (A) the Month in which an Early Termination Payment Date occurs and (B) the last due date for such payments under Exhibit D-3, and (iii) the obligation of Buyer to receive deliveries of Energy from Seller under this Agreement shall terminate. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) except as set forth in this Section 17.4(a), this Agreement will continue past an Energy Delivery Termination Date, and (ii) an Acceleration Event may arise contemporaneously with an Energy Delivery Termination Date or at any time thereafter and the occurrence of an Energy Delivery Termination Date shall not prevent the occurrence of an Acceleration Event.
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33 (b) Early Termination Payment Date. Following an Acceleration Event, Seller shall (i) promptly notify the Master Custodian of the Early Termination Payment Date and (ii) pay the Termination Payment to the Trustee on the Early Termination Payment Date pursuant to payment instructions issued by Buyer or, in the absence of such instructions, by wire transfer.
Such amounts shall be paid together with interest thereon (before as well as after judgment) from (and including) the Early Termination Payment Date to (but excluding) the date such amount is paid, at the Default Rate. The Parties acknowledge that it is impractical and difficult to assess actual damages as a result of a termination of the Delivery Period under this Agreement, and the Parties therefore agree that the payment of the Termination Payment or the continued payment of amounts specified in Exhibit D-3, as applicable, is a fair and reasonable pre-estimate of the actual damages that would be incurred by Buyer as a result of termination of the Delivery Period under this Agreement for any reason and is not a penalty. The obligation of Seller to pay the Termination Payment on the Early Termination Payment Date is unconditional, irrespective of the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated hereby, any waiver or consent by Buyer or any other circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of Seller or a defense of Seller to pay the Termination Payment. Seller waives all rights to set-off, counterclaim, recoupment and any other defenses that might otherwise be available to Seller with regard to Seller’s obligation to pay the Termination Payment on the Early Termination Payment Date.
(c) Exclusive Termination Rights. Neither this Agreement nor the Delivery Period may be terminated for any reason except as specified in this Article XVII and in Section
2.2. Except with respect to amounts due for periods prior to termination, the payment of the Termination Payment and, if applicable, any amounts specified in Exhibit D-3 shall be the sole and exclusive remedy for each Party upon the termination of the Delivery Period and this Agreement for any reason, including as a result of rejection of this Agreement by either Party in any bankruptcy proceedings.
Section 17.5 Replacement of Swaps.
(a) In the event that (i) any Buyer Swap or any Seller Swap terminates, (ii) any notice of termination is delivered by any party to a Buyer Swap or a Seller Swap, or (iii) any Buyer Swap or Seller Swap is otherwise reasonably anticipated to become subject to immediate termination, in each case for any reason other than a Seller Specified Termination or insolvency of either Buyer or Seller, then each Party whose swap is affected shall notify the other Party and the Parties shall cooperate in good faith for a period of 120 days (commencing no later than the date on which any notice of termination (or anticipated termination) is delivered by any party to a Buyer Swap or a Seller Swap) (such period, the “Swap Replacement Period”) to (x) cause the same Swap Counterparty whose Buyer Swap or Seller Swap has been terminated (or is anticipated to terminate) to terminate its unaffected Seller Swap or Buyer Swap, as applicable, and (y) locate replacement agreements with an alternate Swap Counterparty, to be mutually agreed upon by Buyer and Seller, to replace both the affected swap and the unaffected swap; provided, however, that neither Party shall be required to breach any obligation under the unaffected swap or to expend any amounts to cause the unaffected swap to be replaced or to cause an alternate counterparty to replace both swaps. Neither Party shall terminate this Agreement as a result of the termination of any Seller Swap or any Buyer Swap without first complying with this Section 17.5.
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34 As used in this Section 17.5, the term “Seller Specified Termination” means a termination or potential termination of the Seller Swap due to (i) an Event of Default (as such term is defined in the Seller Swap) with respect to Seller pursuant to Section 5(a)(iii) of the Seller Swap, in either case other than where (A) any such failure to pay or transfer was caused solely by error or omission of an administrative or operational nature; (B) funds were available to enable Seller to make such payment or transfer when due; and (C) such payment or transfer is made within two (2) Business Days of Seller’s receipt of written notice of its failure to pay or transfer, or (ii) an Event of Default (as such term is defined in the Seller Swap) with respect to Seller under Section 5(a)(vii) of the Seller Swap.
(b) In the event of a termination (or anticipated termination) of the Seller Swap, if Seller (i) presents to Buyer a proposed alternate Swap Counterparty, (ii) requests in writing that Buyer enter into a replacement swap with such alternate Swap Counterparty, and (iii) agrees to pay Buyer’s reasonable expenses in connection therewith, Buyer shall (y) enter into a master agreement with such alternate Swap Counterparty and (z) either (A) terminate the Buyer Swap when permitted thereby and enter into a replacement transaction under such new master agreement to the same effect as the terminated Buyer Swap or (B) cause such Buyer Swap to be novated to such replacement Swap Counterparty, provided that, in each instance, such replacement Swap Counterparty, replacement master agreement and replacement transaction meet the requirements specified for such under the Bond Indenture. Buyer shall not replace a Buyer Swap without Seller’s consent.
(c) Each of Buyer and Seller agree that it will not enter into a replacement Buyer Swap or Seller Swap, as applicable, unless the other Party is replacing its Buyer Swap or Seller Swap, as applicable, with the same replacement Swap Counterparty. (d) In the event that the Seller Swap terminates or is no longer in effect and the Prepay LLC Payments Period (as defined in the Seller Custodial Agreement) is in effect, then, during such Prepay LLC Payments Period, Seller shall comply with the terms of the Seller Custodial Agreement and make all payments as and when required under Section 3(e) of the Seller Custodial Agreement. In the event that the Buyer Swap terminates or is no longer in effect and the Issuer Payments Period (as defined in the Buyer Custodial Agreement) is in effect, then, during such Issuer Payments Period, Buyer shall comply with the terms of the Buyer Custodial Agreement and make all payments as and when required under Section 3(e) of the Buyer Custodial Agreement. The Parties agree that during any Prepay LLC Payments Period (as defined in the Seller Custodial Agreement) and during any Issuer Payments Period (as defined in the Buyer Custodial Agreement), Seller shall act as calculation agent under the Seller Custodial Agreement or the Buyer Custodial Agreement, as applicable. Seller agrees not to permit any amendment or other modification to the Seller Custodial Agreement that could adversely affect the right of Buyer to receive payments pursuant to Section 3(e) of the Seller Custodial Agreement. Buyer agrees not to permit any amendment or other modification to the Buyer Custodial Agreement that could adversely affect the right of Seller to receive payments pursuant to Section 3(e) of the Buyer Custodial Agreement.
Section 17.6 Limitation on Damages. THE PARTIES CONFIRM THAT THE
EXPRESS REMEDIES AND MEASURES OF DAMAGES PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT SATISFY THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSES HEREOF. FOR BREACH OF ANY Item 2
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35 PROVISION FOR WHICH AN EXPRESS REMEDY OR MEASURE OF DAMAGES IS
HEREIN PROVIDED, SUCH EXPRESS REMEDY OR MEASURE OF DAMAGES SHALL BE THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, THE OBLIGOR’S LIABILITY SHALL BE
LIMITED AS SET FORTH IN SUCH PROVISION, AND ALL OTHER REMEDIES OR DAMAGES AT LAW OR IN EQUITY ARE WAIVED. NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE
LIABLE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR INDIRECT
DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR OTHER BUSINESS INTERRUPTION DAMAGES, BY
STATUTE, IN TORT OR CONTRACT, UNDER ANY INDEMNITY PROVISION, OR OTHERWISE. IT IS THE INTENT OF THE PARTIES THAT THE LIMITATIONS HEREIN
IMPOSED ON REMEDIES AND THE MEASURE OF DAMAGES BE WITHOUT REGARD
TO THE CAUSE OR CAUSES RELATED THERETO, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
THE NEGLIGENCE OF EITHER PARTY, WHETHER SUCH NEGLIGENCE BE SOLE, JOINT OR CONCURRENT, OR ACTIVE OR PASSIVE. TO THE EXTENT ANY DAMAGES
REQUIRED TO BE PAID UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE LIQUIDATED, THE PARTIES
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE DAMAGES ARE DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO
DETERMINE, OTHERWISE OBTAINING AN ADEQUATE REMEDY IS INCONVENIENT,
AND THE LIQUIDATED DAMAGES CONSTITUTE A REASONABLE APPROXIMATION OF THE HARM OR LOSS. IN DETERMINING THE APPROPRIATE MEASURE OF
DAMAGES THAT WOULD MAKE THE PARTIES WHOLE, THE PARTIES HAVE
THOROUGHLY CONSIDERED, INTER ALIA, THE UNCERTAINTY OF FLUCTUATIONS
IN COMMODITY PRICES, THE ABILITY AND INTENTION OF THE PARTIES TO HEDGE
SUCH FLUCTUATIONS, THE BARGAINED-FOR ALLOCATION OF RISK, THE
KNOWLEDGE, SOPHISTICATION AND EQUAL BARGAINING POWER OF THE
PARTIES, THE ARMS-LENGTH NATURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS, THE SPECIAL
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS TRANSACTION, THE ACCOUNTING AND TAX
TREATMENT OF THE TRANSACTION BY THE PARTIES, AND THE ENTERING INTO OF
OTHER TRANSACTIONS IN RELIANCE ON THE ENFORCEABILITY OF THE LIQUIDATED DAMAGES PROVISIONS CONTAINED HEREIN. THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS A SALE OF GOODS SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 2 OF THE NEW YORK UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, §§ 2-706(6), 2-711, 2-718, AND 2-719.
Section 17.7 Option to Purchase Bonds. In connection with any new Interest Rate Period established under the Bond Indenture after the initial Interest Rate Period, Seller shall have the option to purchase Bonds to be remarketed on the relevant Mandatory Purchase Date by delivering notice to Buyer and the Trustee no later than the last Business Day of the Reset Period that Seller will purchase a quantity of Bonds necessary to avoid the occurrence of a Failed Remarketing. In the event that Seller exercises such option, (x) Seller will be obligated to pay the purchase price of such Bonds in immediately available funds on the Mandatory Purchase Date, and (y) to the extent a PSC Remarketing Termination is in effect with respect to the Reset Period commencing immediately prior to such Interest Rate Period, then Seller shall be required to remarket the Contract Quantities associated with the PSC Remarketing Termination, provided that:
(a) Seller shall be entitled to purchase such Energy for its own account, (b) for all such Energy, regardless of how it is remarketed, Seller will pay Buyer the amount determined pursuant to Section 5(b)(iv) of Exhibit C, and Item 2
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36 (c) to the extent that it is determined that interest on the Bonds purchased by Seller is not excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes, Section 7 through Section 9 of Exhibit C shall not apply to any such remarketing.
Section 17.8 Termination Payment Adjustment Schedule. Seller shall prepare revisions to the then-current Exhibit D-2 (Termination Payment Adjustment Schedule) in connection with each successive Interest Rate Period pursuant to the terms of the Re-Pricing Agreement by delivering a revised Exhibit D-2 to Buyer no later than the last day of the applicable Reset Period, in which case such amendments will be effective as of the first day of the next Interest Rate Period.
ARTICLE XVIII.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 18.1 Indemnification Procedure. With respect to each indemnification included in this Agreement, the indemnity is given to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law and the following provisions shall be applicable. The indemnified Party shall promptly notify the indemnifying Party in writing of any Claim and the indemnifying Party shall have the right to assume its investigation and defense, including employment of counsel, and shall be obligated to pay related court costs, attorneys’ fees and experts’ fees and to post any appeals bonds; provided, however, that the indemnified Party shall have the right to employ at its expense separate counsel and participate in the defense of any Claim. The indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of a Claim without its express written consent thereto. In order to prevent double recovery, the indemnified Party shall reimburse the indemnifying Party for payments or costs incurred in respect of an indemnity with the proceeds of any judgment, insurance, bond, surety or other recovery made by the indemnified Party with respect to a covered event.
Section 18.2 Deliveries. No later than delivery of the Prepayment, Buyer will deliver to Seller a copy of the Bond Indenture. The following documents shall be delivered by the Parties contemporaneously with this Agreement (unless otherwise specified):
(a) by Seller no later than the date of issuance of the Bonds, an executed copy of the Funding Agreement;
(b) by Buyer, a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of Buyer setting forth (i) the resolutions of its governing body with respect to the authorization of Buyer to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Bond Indenture and the Power Supply Contract, (ii) the appropriate individuals who are authorized to sign such agreements, (iii) specimen signatures of such authorized individuals, and (iv) the organization documents of Buyer, certified as being true and complete;
(c) by Seller, evidence reasonably satisfactory to Buyer of (i) Seller’s authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and (ii) the appropriate individuals who are authorized to sign this Agreement; and
(d) at Seller’s request at any time, Buyer shall provide Seller with a valid sales tax exemption certificate and any other required exemption or resale certificate in jurisdictions where sales of Energy occur under this Agreement to the extent such a certificate can be obtained Item 2
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37 and is necessary for exemption from any relevant state taxes that may be levied against the Parties in relation to the transactions under, or pursuant, to this Agreement.
Section 18.3 Entirety; Amendments. This Agreement and the Re-Pricing Agreement, including the exhibits and attachments hereto and thereto, constitute the entire agreement between the Parties and supersedes all prior discussions and agreements between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. There are no prior or contemporaneous agreements or representations affecting the same subject matter other than those expressed herein and in the Re-Pricing Agreement. Except for any matters that, in accordance with the express provisions of this Agreement, may be resolved by oral agreement between the Parties, no amendment, modification or change herein shall be enforceable unless reduced to writing and executed by both Parties.
Section 18.4 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND
DUTIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED, ENFORCED AND PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLE THAT WOULD DIRECT THE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION’S LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE AUTHORITY OF BUYER TO ENTER INTO
AND PERFORM ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Section 18.5 Non-Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any of the terms of this Agreement shall be effective unless such waiver is in writing and signed by the Party granting such waiver. No waiver of any breach shall be deemed a waiver of any other subsequent breach.
Section 18.6 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement, or the application thereof, shall for any reason be invalid or unenforceable, then to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other Persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, but rather shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible under applicable Law, so long as the economic and legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any materially adverse manner as to either Party.
Section 18.7 Exhibits. Any and all Exhibits referenced in this Agreement are hereby incorporated herein by reference and shall be deemed to be an integral part hereof.
Section 18.8 Winding Up Arrangements. All indemnity and confidentiality obligations, audit rights, and other provisions specifically providing for survival shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement. The expiration or termination of this Agreement shall not relieve either Party of (a) any unfulfilled obligation or undischarged liability of such Party on the date of such termination or (b) the consequences of any breach or default of any warranty or covenant contained in this Agreement. All obligations and liabilities described in the preceding sentence of this Section 18.8, and applicable provisions of this Agreement creating or relating to such obligations and liabilities, shall survive such expiration or termination.
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38 Section 18.9 Relationships of Parties. The Parties shall not be deemed to be in a relationship of partners or joint venturers by virtue of this Agreement, nor shall either Party be an agent, representative, trustee or fiduciary of the other, except that Seller shall act on behalf of Buyer in remarketing Energy pursuant to Exhibit C. Neither Party shall have any authority to bind the other to any agreement. This Agreement is intended to secure and provide for the services of each Party as an independent contractor.
Section 18.10 Immunity. Buyer represents and covenants to and agrees with Seller that it is not entitled to and shall not assert the defense of sovereign immunity with respect to its obligations or any Claims under this Agreement.
Section 18.11 Rates and Indices.
(a) Commodity Reference Prices.
(i) Price Replacement Process for Energy. If a Daily Commodity Reference Price for Energy is not available for any Hour but such Daily Commodity Reference Price has not permanently ceased to be published, then the Parties shall promptly endeavor to agree on an alternative source for determination of such Daily Commodity Reference Price for the applicable Hours. If such agreement is not reached by the Parties within three (3) Business Days, the Parties shall request quotations for the applicable Daily Commodity Reference Price from four (4) recognized dealers in the applicable commodity (two (2) selected by each Party) for the period that such Daily Commodity Reference Price is expected to be unavailable. If four (4) quotations are provided as requested, the applicable Daily Commodity Reference Price for the applicable Hours shall be the arithmetic mean of the quotations provided by each recognized dealer after disregarding the quotations having the highest and lowest values; provided that, if more than one (1) quotation has the same value, then one (1) of such quotations shall be disregarded. If exactly three (3) quotations are provided, the applicable Daily Commodity Reference Price for the applicable Hours shall be the quotation provided by the relevant dealer that remains after disregarding the quotations having the highest and lowest values; provided that, if more than one (1) quotation has the same value, then the value of the two (2) quotations with the same value shall control. If fewer than three (3) quotations are provided, the Parties shall seek additional quotations until at least three (3) have been received. (ii) Price Replacement Process for Non-Published Index. If a Daily Commodity Reference Price is not available because it has permanently ceased to be published, then the Parties shall promptly endeavor to agree on an alternative source for determination of such Daily Commodity Reference Price, which may include agreeing upon a published index or a basket of published indices (“Daily Replacement Index”) from which to seek quotes for basis differentials as the replacement for the applicable Daily Commodity Reference Price. If such agreement is not reached by the Parties within three (3) Business Days, then the Daily Replacement Index shall be selected by Seller, acting reasonably. The Parties shall request quotations from four (4) recognized dealers in the applicable commodity (two (2) selected by each Party) for a basis differential (“Daily Basis Differential”) between the Daily Replacement Index and physical prices at the relevant Delivery Point for the remaining term of this Agreement. If four (4) quotations are Item 2
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39 provided as requested, the Daily Basis Differential will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations provided by each recognized dealer, after disregarding the quotations having the highest and lowest values; provided that, if more than one (1) quotation has the same value, then one (1) of such quotations shall be disregarded. If exactly three (3) quotations are provided, the Daily Basis Differential shall be the quotation provided by the relevant dealer that remains after disregarding the quotations having the highest and lowest values; provided that, if more than one (1) quotation has the same value, then the value of the two (2) quotations with the same value shall control. If fewer than three (3) quotations are provided, the Parties shall seek additional quotations until at least three (3) have been received. The applicable Daily Commodity Reference Price shall be the Daily Replacement Index plus the Daily Basis Differential calculated in accordance with the provisions of this clause (iii).
(b) Corrections. If a value published for any rate or index used or to be used in this Agreement is subsequently corrected and the correction is published or announced by the Person responsible for that publication or announcement within thirty (30) days after the original publication or announcement, either Party may notify the other Party of (i) that correction and (ii) the amount (if any) that is payable as a result of that correction. If, not later than thirty (30) days after publication or announcement of that correction, a Party gives notice that an amount is so payable, the Party that originally either received or retained such amount shall, not later than three (3) Business Days after the effectiveness of that notice, pay, subject to any other applicable provisions of this Agreement, to the other Party that amount, together with interest on that amount at the Default Rate for the period from and including the day on which a payment originally was (or was not) made to but excluding the day of payment of the refund or payment resulting from that correction.