NWCC NATIONAL WIND COORDINATING COMMITTEE

HIGHLIGHTS

July 26, 2004

DATES TO REMEMBER

New NWCC Sr. Outreach Coordinator: Miles Keogh will join the NWCC and RESOLVE staff on September 6, 2004. Miles comes from the Global Environment and Technology Foundation. Join us in welcoming Miles to the NWCC.

NWCC CONFERENCE CALLS (all times are ET, click on 
 titles for more information)

Have a Good Summer…
There are no workgroup calls scheduled for August

NWCC MEETINGS

Southwest Power Pool Workshop
October 2004

Wildlife Research Meeting V
November 3-5, 2004

MAGIC MOMENTS

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NWCC STAFF CONTACTS

Rachel Permut
Outreach Associate  
(202) 965-6383
rpermut@resolv.org

Detra Stoddard
Program Assistant  
(202) 965-6218
dstoddard@resolv.org

NWCC WORK GROUP UPDATES

The Wildlife Workgroup held its bimonthly call on July 21st and the call summary will be sent to the workgroup as soon as it is finished.

The authors has revised the Wind Interaction and Bird and Bat Fact Sheet and recommended to the workgroup that it be sent to the NWCC Members for consensus.

The planning group for NWCC Wildlife Research Meeting V is making great progress on the agenda and in confirming many of the expert speakers. The purpose of the meeting is to provide participants with update on research, studies, methods and tools to assess wind development bird, bat interactions and habitat impacts on land. The meeting will be either two or three days between November 3-5th, depending on the final meeting agenda. The meeting will most likely take place in the greater Washington, DC area.

The consensus REC Tracking System Design Principles and the resource document REC Tracking System Design Guide have been posted to the web and are being printed.

Individual members of the workgroup are working on proposals to continue work on green power…stay tuned.

The resource documents, Economic Development Results Brief and Methodology Brief have been posted to the web and are being printed.

NWCC staff is in negotiation with Heather Rhoads-Weaver to provide a briefing on national economic development activities this fall.

The siting workgroup is continuing its work with BBC Research on a set of siting case studies. If you have any questions about the sites selected, the purpose of the study, or the progress, please contact Rachel.

The transmission workgroup is drafting a set of four case studies on transmission siting. The transmission workgroup will hold 3 workshops, between October 2004 and May 2005, one in each of the Southwest, Western and Midwest regions. The Southwest and Western Workshop planning groups are underway, drafting meeting purposes and agendas. The SPP Workshop is tentatively scheduled for October 26th in Little Rock, Arkansas.