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NWCC NATIONAL WIND COORDINATING COMMITTEE |
HIGHLIGHTS
November 1, 2004
DATES TO REMEMBER
NWCC Wildlife Research Meeting V: On November 3-4, 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 Tempe, Arizona on January 19, 2005. This meeting will be in coordination with Wind Power America’s Arizona State Wind Working Group meeting in Tempe on January 18, 2005. Topics in addition to NWCC business include transmission planning for the West, and wind’s relationship with water resources management.
Western Transmission Workshop III: The NWCC is planning a workshop in Sacramento, CA, for February 1-2 at the Holiday Inn - Sacramento. The purpose of this meeting will be to review regional energy policy and transmission planning work, analyzing sub-regional transmission need assessments and comparing them with state and utility generation and transmission expansion plans. Based on this work the Transmission Working Group hopes to be able to inform decision-making among Western Governors and other public and private decision makers for consideration in policy, market and tariff changes.
NWCC CONFERENCE CALLS
Transmission Workgroup Conference Call: November 15 @ 2 pm ET
Wildlife Workgroup Conference call: November 17 @ 2 pm ET
NWCC Steering Committee Conference Call: November 18 @ 1 pm ET
Economic Development Update: December 9 @ 2 pm ET
Siting Workgroup Conference Call: December 21 @ 2 pm ET
NWCC Steering Committee Conference Call: December 22 @ 1pm ET
NWCC MEETINGS
Wildlife Research Meeting V
November 3-4, 2004
Lansdowne, VA
Wildlife Workgroup Meeting
November 5, 2004
Washington, DC
Business Meeting 34
January 19, 2005
Tempe, AZ
Western Transmission
Workshop
February 1-2, 2005
Sacramento, CA
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
NWCC WORK GROUP UPDATES
The Wind Interaction and Bird and Bat Fact Sheet has been sent to the NWCC Members, and will also be available at the upcoming NWCC Wildlife Workshop in Lansdowne VA on November 3-4.
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.
BBC Research has nearly completed their research on siting case studies for the NWCC. These should be available to NWCC members in November.
The next siting workgroup bi-monthly conference call is scheduled for 2:00 pm Eastern Time on December 21st. The call agenda and call in information will be emailed to the workgroup. If others are interested in participating, please contact Rachel, rpermut@resolv.org.
The transmission workgroup is hard at work, following up from the recent Transmission Workshop in the SPP region in Little Rock, and planning a meeting on February 1-2, 2005 in Sacramento, CA to discuss transmission issues in the West. The Transmission Working Group is also engaging with the Midwest to plan a workshop in the Spring of 2005.
Finally, four transmission siting case studies are planned to be completed before the end of this year. These case studies will examine the lessons learned from transmission system expansions that benefited wind in Colorado, Minnesota, California, and Texas.