eBay has sent a request for qualifications (RFQ) to suppliers and developers of renewable energy projects, asking them to submit bids to provide clean energy for the company’s data centers and offices in Utah and other Western-US locations.

The company used this process successfully to get a cutting-edge design for two of its latest data center builds – Project Mercury in Phoenix and the latest expansion of its Project Quicksilver data center in Utah – and hopes it will work just the same with getting renewable energy, according to a blog post by Dean Nelson, VP of global foundation services at eBay.

“My hope is that the renewable power community will step up with proposals on how we can expand our portfolio with innovative and cost effective clean energy solutions in our own backyard,” Nelson wrote.

The company is agnostic to the type of renewable energy proposed. It is open to anything, from wind and solar, to geothermal and “trash power”. Anything “that makes economic and ecological sense for our business, and for the local community.”

The RFQ process ensures that eBay has a full picture of the available options, Nelson explained.

This does not mean eBay has chosen to sit back and wait for good ideas for renewable energy to come to it. The company was instrumental in the recent passage of crucial renewable-energy legislation by the State of Utah.

Called Senate Bill 12, the piece of legislation allowed non-utility energy consumers to buy and transmit power directly from companies producing it and developing renewable-energy sources. The bill was signed into law in March, giving eBay and other users the ability to “purchase large-scale, offsite renewable energy in Utah—something that is certainly important to our business,” Nelson wrote.