Agenda  
Meeting of the Board of Directors 
of the Western Interstate Energy Board

Hyatt Regency Hotel

Enchantment Room A-B

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 Tuesday, April 13, 2004

 

casual attire (no ties)

 

 

Wednesday April 14 - Ad Hoc Meeting on Transmission Permitting Protocol

 

 

Tuesday, April 13

8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
         
8:30 a.m. Call to order
         ·   Bill Keese, Chairman
Approval of the minutes of the November 3-4 meeting
Board and Committee activities
FY 04-05 work plan and budget
Election of officers
Report of the Board’s Federal Representative
         ·        Jim Geringer
9:30 a.m. Outline of the North American Energy Summit and follow-on activities
         ·    Pam Inmann, WGA Executive Director
10:15 a.m. Western Governors’ energy priorities
     Regional electricity decision-making
          CREPC Recommendations
          Regional electricity advisory body (WGA Resolution 03-27)
         ·  Doug Larson
     Natural gas resource adequacy
          Proposed approach to analytic work
         ·    Todd Peterson, California Energy Commission
     Excerpt from WGA Resolution 03-19
     Recent natural gas adequacy studies  
     Peterson presentation 
12:15 p.m. Working lunch
12:45 p.m. Western Governors’ energy priorities (cont’d)
     Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System
          ·        Jeff Burks (UT), Jan Hamrin, CRS, Bob Anderson, CRS
                >WREGIS presentation 1
                >WREGIS presentation 2
2:00 p.m. Responding to energy emergencies
          ·        Tony Usibelli (WA)
                >Usibelli presentation
3:15 p.m. State/provincial roundtable
          West Coast climate initiative (WA, CA)
           Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study (WY, UT)
           Other recent developments
4:30 p.m. Reports of Western Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
          Southwest Carbon Sequestration Partnership - Brian McPherson [pdf]
          West Coast Carbon Sequestration Partnership
          Big Sky CO2 Partnership - Susan Capalbo, Leslie Jones
          Plains Carbon Sequestration Partnership - John Harju [pdf]
          WGA/WIEB coordination activities
           
5:30 p.m. Adjourn