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HIGHLIGHTS

October 18, 2004

DATES TO REMEMBER
NWCC Southwest Power Pool Workshop: The NWCC Transmission Workshop is sponsoring its first Transmission Workshop for the SPP region. The meeting is October 25-26th in Little Rock, AR. To register, please click here.

REGISTER NOW!!!! NWCC Wildlife Research Meeting V: On November 3-4th, the NWCC Wildlife Workgroup is sponsoring its fifth research workshop on wildlife issues. The agenda includes: bats, Altamont pass, habitat impacts, migration, tools and risk assessment. Meeting is near Dulles Airport in Lansdowne, VA at the National Conference Center. For more information go to the meeting page on the NWCC website.  

Business Meeting #34: The next NWCC Business Meeting will be held in Arizona in January in coordination with Wind Power America’s Arizona State Wind Working Group. Topics in addition to NWCC Business include: wind’s relationship with water policy and transmission needs.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Iowa Interconnection Handbook: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has finalized their interconnection guidelines. Click here to download the handbook.

NWCC CONFERENCE CALLS

Siting Workgroup
Conference Call
October 20 @ 2pm ET

Transmission Workgroup Conference Call
TBD

NWCC MEETINGS

Southwest Power Pool Workshop
October 25-26, 2004
Little Rock, AR

Wildlife Research Meeting V
November 3-4, 2004
Lansdowne, VA

Wildlife Workgroup Meeting
November 5, 2004
Washington, DC

MAGIC MOMENTS

Updated Calendar of Fall events: click here

NWCC STAFF CONTACTS

Miles Keogh
Outreach Coordinator
(202) 965-6209
MKeogh@RESolv.org

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

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

NWCC WORK GROUP UPDATES
Wildlife:

The Wind Interaction and Bird and Bat Fact Sheet has been sent to the NWCC Members has reached consensus! The document will be printed and ready distribution at the Research Meeting and to NWCC Members.

The Wildlife Workgroup will also hold a follow-up workgroup meeting on November 5th at the RESOLVE office to debrief the November 3-4 research workshop and discuss future projects.

Siting:

The siting workgroup bi-monthly conference call update is October 20th at 2:00 pm ET. The call agenda and call in information has been emailed to the workgroup. If others are interested in participating, please contact Rachel, rpermut@resolv.org.

Transmission:

The transmission workgroup is busy as usual, preparing for 3 workshops: October 25-26 in Little Rock, AR focusing on the SPP region, February 1-2, 2005 in Sacramento, CA to discuss transmission issues in the West, and will have their first conference call to prepare for the Midwest Workshop later this month.