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Western Renewable Energy Zones -- Technical Committee
The Technical Committee was appointed by the Steering Committee. It is comprised of representatives from the states and provinces, and representatives from each of the working groups.
Technical Committee members objectively represent a class of stakeholder interests, report on Committee meetings to those stakeholders, and share stakeholder concerns objectively with the Technical Committee. In this manner, the Technical Committee is responsible for both administrative/communication functions of the process and technical oversight. The Technical Committee communicates with stakeholders, consolidates information from stakeholder groups, and ensures timely completion of the work of each phase. Committee Members are expected to ensure that all significant issues and concerns are fully and clearly articulated during the Committee meetings, and that the agreement developed by the Committee is acceptable to the constituency that the Committee Member represents.
The Technical Committee is responsible for the day to day technical management of the project and all coordination between the workgroups. The Technical Committee is developing a report to the Steering Committee that identifies all commercial renewable resource potential, whether at the bulk power level or those not suitable for REZs, in the Western Interconnection, then aggregates the best potential for bulk power-level renewables into REZs, and finally identifies key assumptions and methods in order to determine bus bar generation and related transmission costs to deliver resources from each REZ to specific load centers.
The Technical Committee reports to the Steering Committee.
Past Meetings
October 15 – 16, 2008 Meeting
agenda -- Summary
Presentation and Materials
August 21, 2008 Webcast
The Technical Committee reviewed and approved a revised WREZ workplan, including specific workplans for each of the work groups, process diagram, project assumptions and an outreach plan.
Webcast Summary -- Agenda
Presentation – Documents for Review & Work Group Updates
July 18, 2008 Webcast
On the webcast the Technical Committee approved operating groundrules for the group, and reviewed proposed workplans from each of the work groups and basic project assumptions.
Webcast Summary -- Agenda
May 29, 2008
Salt Lake City, UT
The Technical Committee had its first meeting in May 2008 where they discussed the overall workplan for the WREZ project, focusing largely on the work for Phase 1 REZ identification. At this meeting the Technical Committee also formed three work groups (Zone Identification and Technical Analysis, Environment & Lands, and Generation and Transmission Modeling) which are tasked with bringing REZ recommendations to the Committee.
Meeting Summary --
Agenda
Presentations --
Rich Halvey – Role of the Technical Committee
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