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Overview
The Zone Identification and Technical Analysis (ZITA) work group will identify all renewable resource potential in the Western Interconnection, and from that pool of resources will determine geographically concentrated priority renewable resources. This will be accomplished by building upon state renewable resource assessments while incorporating new and existing region-wide resource specific studies, particularly NREL’s wind/solar integration study. The identified resource areas will serve as a base upon which restrictions relating to land use, regulatory mandates (or limitations) and environmental sensitivity would be layered. Through consensus of the stakeholders, including close coordination with the E&L work group, these restrictions will be identified and characterized as areas for potential mitigation or for exclusion.
Once the REZs and their restrictions have been identified, the work group will assess resources to provide cost and operational characteristics for similar groupings of resources within the zone, for ultimate use in the model. This will include identifying costs of inputs into the model, including, but not limited to: net capacity factor of the resource (hourly, seasonal, and annual), operating characteristics, transmission interconnection/collection costs, development costs (including capital cost), local factors relating to inputs for resource (i.e. water for solar, transportation to resource, etc.), mitigation costs for environmentally sensitive lands and other local factors. The work group will coordinate with consultants Black and Veatch to incorporate and ground truth input assumptions for the supply curve models.
Conference Calls
The work group currently holds 2 hour conference calls every Friday at 10:00 am MDT. The calls are currently focusing on the renewable resources and the criteria for creating Candidate Study Areas. For more information or to be added to the distribution list please e-mail ldavis@westgov.org. Summaries of conference call discussions follow.
- November 13, 2008
- November 3, 2008
- October 28, 2008
- October 10, 2008
- September 17, 2008
- September 12, 2008
- September 5, 2008
- September 3, 2008
- August 29, 2008 -- canceled
- August 22, 2008
- August 15, 2008
- August 8, 2008
- August 1, 2008
- July 25, 2008
Work Products
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