Board Meeting Agenda
October 18, 1999
Monterey, California
Monday, October 18
Norman Room. Continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Business meeting
- Introductions/review agenda - John Nunley, Chairman
- Approve minutes of April 20 meeting
- Report on budget and staffing - Doug Larson
- Board and Committee Activities - Doug Larson
- Potential Use of the Western Interstate Nuclear Compact on Electric
Reliability Issues - Alan Davis/Doug Larson -- The purpose of this
item is to report on the status of efforts to establish a state/provincial
regional advisory body on reliability and discuss the use of the
supplementary agreement provisions of the Western Interstate
Nuclear Compact
- Western Governors’ Association - Jim Souby, Executive Director,
Western Governors’ Association
- WGA Border Energy Project - the purpose of this item is to
determine any appropriate linkages with WIEB activities
- EPA sulfur in gasoline rules - information item
- Coal and greenhouse gas emissions – Information item
- Governors’ theme and High Tech Council – the purpose of
this it is to determine if the Board’s work plan needs to be
modified to include activities in support of the WGA theme
- Winter WGA meeting
- Other
9:45 a.m. Activities of the WRAP Air Pollution Prevention Forum
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. State/Provincial Developments
- Gasoline oxygenates
- Impacts of California MTBE phase-out - Bill Keese
- Status of CEC report "Evaluation of
Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California"
- Rice straw ethanol production in California
- New ethanol production facility in Oregon
- Phil Carver
- National considerations - status of federal ethanol-related
legislation and regulations - Larry Pearce
11:45 a.m. Luncheon for Board members
1:30 p.m. Distributed generation
The purpose of this item is to (1) determine the regulatory barriers to different
distributed generation technologies; and (2) understand the experience of parties who
have had distributed generation technologies installed. Tom Corr will present the
views of the Electric Power Research Institute on regulatory barriers and
interconnection issues. Keith Davidson of OnSite Sycom, an energy service
company installing distributed generation, will respond to EPRI’s presentation.
Selected businesses using distributed generation will be hooked into the meeting via
conference call and asked to: (1) explain their motivations for considering distributed
generation; (2) describe their project; and (3) explain their experience to date (cost,
installation experience, performance). With the exception of PVs there has been
limited field experience with distributed generation technologies such as fuel cells and
micro turbines. However, the number of planned distributed generation projects is
growing rapidly.
- Regulatory and interconnection issues - Tom Corr, EPRI
- Response: Keith Davidson - On-Site Sycom
- Experience to date - briefings via conference call
- Tomason Hospital Reciprocating Engine - Keth Davidson
- Omaha’s First National Bank fuel cell-powered Technology Center
- National Petroleum Reserve 3 microturbine - John Nunley (WY)
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s residential PV program - Don Osborn, SMUD
4:00 p.m. Continuation of state/provincial reports on innovations
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
The following meetings are being held at the Casa Munras hotel in Monterey during the week of
October 18:
- October 19-20 - Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
- October 21 (morning) - Workshop on Uniform Business Practices to
Develop Fair and Efficient Markets (morning meeting)
- October 21 (all day) - WRTA Board of Directors