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Agenda |
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Holiday Inn on the Bay |
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San Diego, California |
| West Coast Ballroom |
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April 6-7, 2009 |
| Schedule of Meetings | ||||||||
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| Monday, April 6 |
| 1:00 p.m. | Call to order |
| Outline agenda | |
| · Tony Usibelli, Chair | |
| Business meeting | |
| ▪ Approval of minutes of the October 28 meeting | |
| ▪ Election of officers | |
| ▪ Report on Board and Committee activities [pdf] | |
| o White paper on nuclear power in the West - Jim Williams, staff [pdf] | |
| o Transmission projects and siting paper - Victoria Ravenscroft, staff | |
| ▪ Western Renewable Energy Zone project | |
| o WREZ project update (website) - Tom Carr, staff [pdf] | |
| o WREZ model - (website) - Tom Carr, staff | |
| o Phase 3 (coordinated procurement) - Doug Larson, staff | |
| o Phase 4 (interstate transmission) - Doug Larson, staff | |
| ▪ WGA priorities - Dianne Nielson, WGA Staff Council chair | |
| o Renewables and transmission transition paper | |
| o January 6 Governors' letter to western CEOs | |
| o January 27 Governors' letter to Congress | |
| ▪ 2009-2010 work plan and budget [pdf] | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Federal legislation |
| ▪ Shanna Brown, WGA Washington Office | |
| ▪ Discussion | |
| Background information | |
| ARRA stimulus - energy provisions | |
| Summary of Reid bill | |
| Text of Senator Reid's bill (S 539) on National Renewable | |
| Energy Zones and transmission siting | |
| Senator Bingaman's draft electric transmission siting bill | |
| Summary of President Obama's 2010 budget for DOE | |
| President Obama's proposal for cap & trade, energy efficiency, | |
| modernize grid, etc (see pages 4-7) | |
| Waxman-Markey climate legislation | summary | bill | | |
| Boucher carbon capture and storage early deployment bill | summary | bill | | |
| 4:15 p.m. | State/Provincial roundtable [pdf] |
| ▪ Alberta Energy Strategy [pdf] | |
| ▪ British Columbia | |
| Long term transmission needs inquiry | Press release | |
| ▪ California | |
| RPS - Governor's Executive Order S-14-08 | |
| AB 32 - ARB | |
| - CEC and CPUC | |
| Permitting - Executive Order Implementation | |
| 5:30 p.m. | Recess |
| 6:30 p.m. | Board dinner - Indigo Grill |
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Tuesday, April 7 |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | DOE implementation of the transmission provisions of the stimulus bill |
| ▪ DOE Office of Electricity, Larry Mansueti [pdf] | |
| Background information | |
| Office of Electricity webpage | |
| 9:00 a.m. | New western initiatives for transmission and renewables |
| ▪ Staff presentation [pdf] | |
| ▪ Discussion | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Adjourn |