Business Meeting #24
Blue Print for Activities
National Wind Coordinating
Committee
2001-2003 Blueprint
Summary of NWCC Activities for 2001-2003
I. PROJECTS
- Avian
Work Group
Goals:
- Produce documents that offer
guidance on what we know about Avian/wind interaction.
- Disseminate information about what
we know about avian/wind interaction and how to study
wind/interaction.
- Provide people with information on
whether and when they need more detailed research.
- Finalize Avian/Wind Energy Interaction
Research Status Fact Sheet.
Winter 2001 DOE
- Finalize Wind Energy/Bird Effects in
Perspective Paper.
Winter 2001 DOE
- Produce and Finalize National
Avian/Wind Power Planning Meeting IV Proceedings.
May 2001 DOE
- Participate in revision process for
NWCC Permitting Handbook.
2001 DOE
- Siting
Work Group
Goals:
- Update and disseminate information
about siting wind development projects.
- Develop new products and conduct
outreach in regions when parties request it.
- Prepare and Produce 2001 Handbook
Update/Revision, Incorporating feed-back from users.
August 2001
- Select Author, Develop and Produce
concise Wind Facility Siting
Outreach Products. e.g. Fact Sheets for Local Units of
Government, and Fact Sheets on Siting and Public Participation
Issues.
October, 2001 DOE
- Include siting issues in regional NWCC
forums and be responsive to requests for a Siting/Avian workshop.
2001-2003 DOE
- Wind Energy and Economic Development
Goals:
- Develop information on what we
know about the economic development impacts of wind energy.
- Develop credible analysis of
realistic potential economic development impacts under different wind
energy scenarios.
- Conduct outreach in regions with
the greatest potential for wind energy development.
- Develop alliances with economic
development organizations.
(baseline activity.) 2001-2003 DOE
- Economic Development Work Group
workshop for NWCC members, parties conducting studies of the
economic development impacts of wind power, and economic development
specialists.
(baseline activity.) March, 2001 NREL
- Conduct wind economic development
workshops and outreach.
(baseline activity), as appropriate. 2001-2003 NREL (2001)
- Select author, develop and produce
case studies on the economic development impacts of wind projects in
key states or communities where cases have not been documented.
Options include: DOE
(a) Montana (Black Feet Tribe);
(b) Culbertson County, Texas;
(c) Carbon County Wyoming; and
(d) the Northwest.
(Funded.) 2001
- Select author, develop and produce
Wind Energy and Economic
Development Research Study.
(Funded.) 2001-2002 DOE
- Compile Anecdotal Wind Energy Economic
Development Data and Create PowerPoint Presentation and Companion
Text.
(Funded.) 2003 DOE
- Select author, develop and produce
guide to wind development for local communities.
2002-2003 NOT FUNDED
- Write up findings of "white
paper" in user friendly set of fact sheets. Integrate
these products into NWCC workshops and forums and upload all
information onto NWCC web site to make deliverables available to the
public.
(Funded.) 2001-2003 DOE
- Document lessons learned from outreach
workshops.
(baseline activity.) 2001-2003 NREL (2001)
- State Policy Options
Goals:
- Utilize information in the State
Policy Options report in outreach activities.
- Identify possible new products for
state policy options information.
- Coordinate with NCSL to make state
policy options information available to legislators.
2001-2003 NREL(2001)
- Select Author, Develop and Produce an
issue paper and brief on state policy options in similar format to
other NWCC issue paper/briefs.
2002-2003 DOE
- Transmission
Work Group
Goals:
- Create opportunities to bring wind
related issues before regional decision making bodies that affect
transmission so that wind issues are raised, addressed, and resolved.
- Develop and provide information
for key stakeholders to use at the regional level.
- Document examples of how
transmission issues are being addressed in ways that are beneficial or
harmful for wind development.
- Publish work group's completed
documents from it's first year of investigation, including:
a) Transmission Case Studies Conclusions Summary, with the three
case studies and NWCC RTO Principles as appendices; and
b) the California Wind and ISO Case Study.
Winter 2001 DOE/NREL
- Provide resources and educate local
stakeholders on issues.
2001-2003 DOE
- Disseminate information in a targeted
way to key participants.
2001-2003 DOE
- Utilize outside consultant expertise
as required.
2001-2003 DOE
- Conduct Wind Transmission Workshops
among wind-interested parties in the Midwest region
May, 2001, October, 2001, Fall 2002 DOE
- Select author, develop and produce
topical Issue Briefs on issues critical to the fair treatment of
wind energy in the evolving energy markets.
Topics include: 2001 DOE
- Transmission Planning Processes,
Including Additions
- Balancing Markets: Ed DeMeo
- Real-time Scheduling: Brian Parsons
- Markets for Transmission Rights: Ron
Lehr
- Interconnection Requirements:
Charlie Smith
- Congestion Management: Kevin Porter
- Rate Pancaking: Tom Wind
- Select author, develop and
produce Midwest ISO Updates on RTO wind issues. Include information
on other RTOs as warranted.
Bi-monthly 2001 DOE
- Select author, develop and produce an
Information Memorandum on the design and functioning of the energy
and transmission markets in the PJM ISO.
2001 DOE
- Distributed
Wind Development Work Group Goals:
- Finalize and release distributed
report
- Respond to questions raised in
distributed paper.
- Issues Raised by Workgroup
Members:
- Consider how the NWCC
distributed work conducted to date can relate to, benefit from, and
add to other organization's activities related to distributed wind
development.
- Release Phase I Report. Winter 2001
NREL
- NWCC participate in other
organizations workshops and forums on distributed energy. e.g.
NARUC, DOE Distributed
Task Force 2001 NREL
- Include distributed wind power
information in regional NWCC Forums.
2001-2003 NREL (2001)
- Develop Issues Brief on distributed
report
2002-2003 DOE
- Credit
Trading Work Group
Goals:
- Assess and Review credit trading
opportunities for wind energy to educate the NWCC and to identify
priority areas for activities.
- Develop a Set of "Credit
Trading Principles" that if implemented will create viable and
supportive business opportunities for wind deployment.
- Conduct communication and outreach
that capitalizes on opportunities to bring wind related issues before
state, regional, and national decision making bodies that affect air
emission or renewable credit trading policies, so that wind issues are
raised, addressed, and resolved. This includes presenting NWCC
information proactively when credit trading rules are being drafted.
- Finalize & release Phase I & II Credit Trading Report and
Principles.
Winter 2001 NREL
- Develop Phase III Outreach and Communication strategy.
2001 NREL
- Develop statement of work, issue RFP, and select consultant for
Phase III activities and products.
2001-2003 NREL 2001/DOE
- Include credit trading information in regional forums.
2001-2003 NREL 2001/DOE
- Native Americans and Wind Energy
Goals:
- NWCC will respond to opportunities
for Native American Wind Energy Activities as they arise.
- Green Power Marketing
Work Group
Goals:
- Examine the opportunity for
non-residential green power demand.
- Disseminate and get feed back on
what the NWCC has produced on green marketing.
- Finalize and Release paper on Non-Residential Demand for Green
Power.
Winter 2001 EPRI
- Discuss whether/how to merge Green Power Work Group with Credit
Trading Work Group
2001 NREL
- Include Green Marketing information in regional forums.
2001-2003 NREL 2001/DOE
- Possible new issues and activities include:
-
Explore the relationship
between price volatility of other fuels and opportunities for wind
power.
-
Recognition of green
customers
-
Explore where green
marketing will work (retail competitive
Market vs. non-competitive market) NOT FUNDED
- Wind Energy Issue Papers/Briefs
Goals:
- Update NWCC Issue Papers/Briefs.
- Create new Issue Papers/Briefs as
new documents are completed.
- Get user feedback on usefulness of
Issue Papers/Briefs
2001 DOE.
- Develop scope of work for updating
existing Issue Papers/Briefs and developing new issue Papers/Briefs
on:
- distributed windpower,
- policy options (e.g.
cooperatives and public ownership); and/or
- financing windpower and
risk management.
- Issue RFP Spring 2001 DOE
- Complete and print new Issue Papers/Briefs Fall 2002 DOE
- Complete and print updated Issue Papers/Briefs
Fall 2002 DOE, NOT FULLY FUNDED
II. OUTREACH
Goals:
- Develop outreach targets:
substantive and process - how we are conducting outreach?
- Determine what kind of outreach is
most useful and beneficial.
- Consider assisting regional groups
to form NWCC-collaboratives..
- NWCC Technical Information Outreach and Member
Services
- Serve as Multi-Stakeholder Advisors
and Vetting Forum to Federal Initiatives.
Ongoing NREL 2001
- Produce and Disseminate Postcards and
Publication
Catalog.
2001 DOE
- Develop Problem Solving/Technical
Assistance Team Directory
2001 DOE
- Track, Create and Plan for "Magic
Moment" Opportunities.
Ongoing NREL 2001/DOE
- Maintain and Improve On-line Services
(Website Resources, Listservers, Email Broadcast) and Staff
Toll-Free Hotline.
Ongoing NREL 2001
- Cultivate Relationships; e.g. (state
lands agencies, APPA, NRECA (tribes, agriculture groups, economic
developers, and financial sector)
Ongoing NREL 2001
- Maintain and Improve Stakeholder
Database.
Ongoing NREL 2001
- Balance Sector Representation; e.g.
municipal-owned utilities, Large wind energy consumers.
Ongoing NREL 2001
- Support Consumer Education
Efforts.
Ongoing NREL 2001
- State/Regional Outreach
- Upper Midwest: Economic Development,
State Level Issue Forums/Workshops, Native American Issues,
Distributed
2001 NREL
- Rocky Mountains/Mid-West: Transmission
Issue Forum
2001 NREL
- Northwest: assess potential
2001 NREL
- Northeast: Regional market
transformation issues Forum
2001 NREL
- Mid-Atlantic (NY, PA): take advantage
of opening markets and learning opportunities
2001 NREL
- Explore Opportunities for Earth Day
2001
- Link with Earth Day 2001 Web site
2001 NRE
- Support
of State Dialogues and Task Forces
- Strategic advice
2001 NREL
- Facilitate
2001 NREL
- Assistance with development of
products
2001 NREL
- NWCC
Meeting Dates Calendar
The following is a list of confirmed
meeting dates and tentative locations.
NWCC Business Meetings
- May 10, 2001 - New York NREL
- September 26, 2001 - Montana NREL
- December 7, 2001 - New Mexico NREL
Wind Issue Forums/Workshops
- Northeast Regional Wind market
Transformation Workshop
May 9, 2001 - New York NREL
Wind Economic Development Meetings
- Wind Economic Development Workshop
March 15-16, 2001 - Minneapolis, MN NREL
Transmission Meetings
- Midwest Transmission Workshop
March 1-2. 2001 - Minneapolis, MN NREL
Fall, 2001
Avian Meetings
- National Avian-Wind Power Planning
Meeting V
Not currently proposed
III. ADMINISTRATION
Goals:
- Improve functioning of NWCC and
implement changes to improve effectiveness.
- Identify sectors which need
attention.
For Example:
- Continue to work on scheduling
meetings well in advance
- Increase and balance involvement
from all sectors.
- Implement target of at least 2
Steering Committee representatives per sector
- Further develop the
Agriculture/Economic Development/Land Owner Sector.
- Contact members we haven't heard
from in some time and determine if they still want to be involved;
re-energize them if they want to stay involved.
- Continue to improve NWCC output.
- Continue to reinvigorate workgroups and refresh their membership.
- Utilize NWCC web site for more
effective communication.
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