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NWCC NATIONAL WIND COORDINATING COMMITTEE |
HIGHLIGHTS
November 15, 2004
DATES TO REMEMBER
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.
Economic Development Brief Vol. 1: The first NWCC Economic Development Brief, which will include regional updates and reports on national activities, is scheduled for December 9th @ 2pm ET. Those who wish to receive the brief should email Rachel Permut at rpermut@resolv.org.
NWCC CONFERENCE CALLS
Wildlife Workgroup
Conference Call
November 17 @ 2 pm ET
NWCC Steering Committee
Conference Call
November 18 @ 1 pm ET
Economic Development
Briefing
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
Business Meeting 34
January 19, 2005
Tempe, AZ
Western Transmission
Workshop
February 1-2, 2005
Sacramento, CA
MAGIC MOMENTS
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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 Wildlife Workgroup Conference Call scheduled for November 17th at 2:00pm ET will be an opportunity to debrief the Wildlife Research Meeting V and Wildlife Workgroup Meeting. The agenda for the call also includes determining which projects the group should focus on next.
Susan Savitt-Schwartz is writing the proceedings for Wildlife Research Meeting V. A draft will be sent to the presenters for edits and then the attendees for review before being published.
BBC Research has completed the first draft of the NWCC Siting Case Studies: Community Response. It will be emailed to the case study subgroup for the first round of edits.
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.
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.