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Agenda
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Colorado State Bank Building |
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1600 Broadway - 5th Floor Conference Room |
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Denver, Colorado |
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April 3, 2007 |
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Tuesday, April 3 |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Introductions and approval of the agenda |
| Chair's report | |
| · Joanna Prukop, Chair | |
| Business session | |
| · Approval of minutes of April 3-4, 2006 meeting | |
| · Election of officers | |
| · Report on Board and Committee activities | |
| · Review and approval of a work plan and budget [presentation] | |
| o CREPC work plan | |
| o High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee work plan [presentation] | |
| · Report from Federal Representative - Jim Geringer | |
| · Report on Governors' priorities - Pam Inmann, WGA [presentation] | |
| Background information | |
| Testimony on Administration's Climate Change Technology Program | |
| with updated information | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Follow-up on Past Board Priorities and New Issues |
| · Energy emergencies - Tony Usibelli (WA) | |
| · Natural gas adequacy modeling - Thom Kelly, CEC | |
| · Coal bed methane produced water - Art Compton (MT) | |
| · New Issues | |
| Background information | |
| Western States Energy Assurance Exercise | |
| Montana issue summary | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Collaboration on climate change-related activities |
| Regional context | |
| · WIEB staff [presentation] | |
| · WGA Initiative - Pam Inmann, WGA [presentation] | |
| · GHG Registry - Patrick Cummins, WGA [via phone] | |
| Background Information | |
| A proposed process for consistent state, provincial, and tribal estimates of | |
| utilities' electric CO2 emissions | |
| Western State/Provincial Climate Change Activities | |
| Significant new state or provincial initiatives since January | |
| · British Columbia - Peter Ostergaard | |
| · Washington - Tony Usibelli | |
| · New Mexico - Joanna Prukop | |
| · Colorado - Tom Plant | |
| · Other | |
| Background Information | |
| BC Climate Change Initiative | |
| New Mexico Clean Energy Legislation | |
| Washington Climate Change Challenge | |
| Colorado Energy Economy Legislation | |
| Report of Board's Climate Change Task Force on WIEB's priorities | |
| · Tony Usibelli (WA), Steve Ellenbecker (WY) | |
| Background Information | |
| WIEB Task Force Report (March 5, 2007) | |
| 11:45 a.m. | Working lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | 1. LSE Resource Plans |
| ■ Draft work plan objectives - Climate Change Task Force | |
| ■ Preliminary report on LBNL examination of western electricity load serving | |
| entity resource plans | |
| o Ryan Wiser, Galen Barbose - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [presentation] | |
| ■ Discussion of future directions | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 2. Integration of intermittent renewables |
| ■ Draft work plan objectives - Climate Change Task Force | |
| ■ Overview of western wind integration studies | |
| · Brian Parsons, National Renewable Energy Laboratory [presentation] | |
| ■ Discussion of future directions (e.g. recommend NREL or WECC) | |
| as a repository for western wind resource data; recommend that | |
| those who claim federal Production Tax Credit provide wind information | |
| central data base) | |
| 2:15 p.m. | 3. Hybrid generation |
| · WIEB staff | |
| Background information | |
| WIEB wind-advanced coal hybrid project [presentation] | |
| 2:30 p.m. | 4. Transportation - utility crossover opportunities |
| ■ WGA Alternative Transportation Fuels Program | |
| o Gayle Gordon - WGA | |
| Background information | |
| WGA Resolution 06-20 Transportation Fuels for the Future | |
| Implementation Strategy | |
| Outline of format for summary of alternatives | |
| Committee members and teams | |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | 5. GHG reduction proposals in U.S. and Canada |
| ■ Outline of objectives - Climate Change Task Force | |
| ■ U.S. proposals | |
| · Congressional proposals | |
| o Kevin Moran, WGA Washington Office [presentation] | |
| o State cap and trade proposals - NM, [handout1] [handout2] CA, [handout1] WA, OR, AZ | |
| ■ Canadian developments | |
| · Canadian federal proposals - Alberta, B.C. | |
| Background information | |
| Oregon "median" cap-and-trade proposal | |
| Five state cap and trade initiative - press release and initiative | |
| Summary of U.S. Senate climate change legislation | |
| EIA analysis of a cap and trade system | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Board decisions |
| ■ Other climate change-related Board priorities | |
| ■ Any fine tuning of the 2007-2008 work plan as a result of discussions | |
| ■ Next meeting | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| 6:30 p.m. | Joint WIEB/WIRAB dinner - (Maggiano's) |