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Agenda |
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Holiday Inn on the Bay |
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San Diego, California |
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April 8-9, 2009 |
| Schedule of Meetings | ||||||||
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Pacific
Ballroom |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Introductions |
| Review agenda | |
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John Savage, CREPC chair |
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| 8:15 a.m. | Western developments since October meeting |
| · Western Governors' policies on transmission and renewables [pdf] | |
| Doug Larson, WIEB | |
| · Western electricity industry leaders group [pdf] | |
| Mike Niggli, Sempra | |
| · WECC long-term transmission planning seminar | |
| Steve Walton, WECC | |
| · Western Renewable Energy Zone project and WREZ model [pdf] | |
| John Savage - WREZ Technical Committee Chair | |
| · Western Interconnection resource planning meeting [pdf] | |
| John Savage | |
| · Promoting WREGIS certificates from third party generators [pdf] | |
| Lisa Schwartz, Regulatory Assistance Project | |
| Background information | |
| Western Governors' policies | |
| Resolution 08-8, Changes Needed in Electric Power System to | |
| Support Clean Energy Goals | |
| Renewables and transmission transition paper | |
| January 6 Governors' letter to western CEOs | |
| January 27 Governors' letter to Congress | |
| WECC long-term transmission planning seminar | |
| Western Interconnection resource planning meeting | |
| Agenda and presentation | |
| Next steps | |
| Western Renewable Energy Zone project and model | |
| Website project | |
| QRA map | |
| WREZ model | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Obama Administration and Congressional initiatives |
| · Administration energy structure and appointments | |
| · Energy provisions of the Federal stimulus bill implementation [pdf] | |
| o Larry Mansueti, DOE | |
| · Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act (Reid bill) | |
| o Mary Cain, Senator Reid's staff | |
| Background information | |
| Energy economic stimulus bill | |
| Summary of Reid bill | |
| Summary of Bingaman draft | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Complementary actions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| and other FERC developments | |
| · John Carlson and other FERC representatives | |
| Background information | |
| FERC transmission incentives | |
| FERC technical conference on integrating renewables | |
| Chairman Wellinghoff testimony on transmission policy | |
| Fourth Circuit decision on FERC backstop authority | |
| 11:45 p.m. | Lunch on your own |
| 1:00 p.m. | Transmission project development |
| · Overview and timing of major proposed transmission projects [pdf] | |
| Steve Walton, WECC | |
| Background information | |
| Proposed transmission projects | |
| 1:15 p.m. | Panel on key transmission expansion issues |
| Five questions are posed on transmission expansion issues. The parties identified | |
| under each
question will address their issue.
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| 1. What's the range of potential transmission needs in the West under | |
| different futures? | |
| a. Situation analysis [pdf] | |
| Doug Larson - WIEB | |
| b. What interconnection-wide scenarios are being studied now? [pdf] | |
| Brad Nickell - WECC | |
| i. 2008 study findings | |
| ii. 2009 study requests | |
| c. What scenarios need to be considered? | |
| i. Kip Sikes, Western Energy Industry Leaders group | |
| d. Is a more systematic development of future scenarios needed? | |
| Background information | |
| TEPPC 2008 report | |
| Executive summary; Part 1; Part 2; Part 4 | |
| 2009 study requests | |
| E3 study for WEIL group | |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2. How do WAPA and BPA plan to use stimulus bill funds for transmission? |
| a. Timothy Meeks, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration | |
| b. Stephen Wright, Administrator and CEO, Bonneville Power Association [pdf] | |
| Background information | |
| Meeks | Wright | Ellenbecker testimony before House Energy and | |
| Water subcommittee | |
| WAPA | |
| Federal register March 4 notice | |
| Request for interest | |
| ARRA activities | |
| BPA February 19, 2009 press release | |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | 3. Will the current incremental expansion approach work or does the |
| Western Interconnection need a master transmission plan? | |
| a. Tom Schneider, WECC | |
| b. Jeff Miller, Columbia Grid [pdf] | |
| c. Larry Mansueti, DOE | |
| d. Kevin Kelly, FERC | |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4. How can we create the capability to rapidly increase transmission capacity |
| from areas of large amounts of renewable resources? | |
| · Do we need to "supersize" lines now? | |
| · Are there ways to preserve capacity expansion options (e.g. overbuilding towers) | |
| · What are the financing and permitting obstacles? | |
| · What are the regulatory obstacles? | |
| a. Jerry Vaninetti, Trans-Elect [pdf] | |
| b. John Dunn, TransCanada [pdf] | |
| c. Kip Sikes, Idaho Power | |
| d. Jim Tarpey, CO PUC [pdf] | |
| e. Walt George, BLM [pdf] | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Recess |
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Pacific
Ballroom |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Panel on key expansion issues (cont'd) |
| 5. Why do developers of parallel projects choose to coordinate or not | |
| coordinate their projects? Does the WECC path rating process evaluate the | |
| interaction between proposed projects? Will the system fail because key | |
| decisions (e.g., duplicative lines) are not resolved until the permitting stage? | |
| a. John Dunn, TransCanada (Chinook, Zephyr, Northern lights) [pdf] | |
| b. John Leland, Northwestern Energy (Mountain States Intertie Project) [pdf] | |
| c. John Cupparo, Pacificorp (Energy Gateway, Hemingway-Captain Jack) [pdf] | |
| (Boardman-Hemingway, Walla Walla-McNary) | |
| d. Mario Villar, NV Energy (Ely Energy Center) [pdf] | |
| e. Bill Boyd, TransWest Express (TransWest Express) [pdf] | |
| f. Mark Etherton, Sun Zia (Sun Zia) [pdf] | |
| h. Walt George, BLM | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 a.m. | Planning for flexibility to integrate variable renewable generation |
| Transmission planning and expansion activities need to be complemented by | |
| realistic planning for ancillary services to provide system balancing in order to | |
| integrate increasing amounts of variable renewable generation coming onto the | |
| grid. Many of the regions of the west that are best candidates for transmission | |
| expansion to open up new renewable resources (Montana, Wyoming) do not | |
| have large amounts of available balancing resources to manage variable | |
| generation. In order to develop renewables in a reliable and cost effective | |
| fashion, system flexibility issues need to be better managed and coordinated by | |
| policymakers, developers and utilities. This session will examine: | |
| ■ System balancing resources to integrate higher levels of renewable generation; | |
| ■ Supply and demand-side resources that can provide system flexibility, | |
| ■ Activities currently underway to address these issues across the West, and | |
| ■ The role of integrated resource planning to explicitly address flexibility resources. | |
| Moderator: Elliot Mainzer, BPA | |
| Panelists | |
| a. Maury Galbraith, NW Power and Conservation Council [pdf] | |
| b. Charlie Reinhold, WestConnect | |
| c. Sharon Helms, Northern Tier Transmission Group [pdf] | |
| d. Kristi Wallis, Columbia Grid | |
| e. Brad Nickell, WECC | |
| f. John Leland, NorthWestern Energy [pdf] | |
| g. Grant Rosenblum, CAISO [pdf] | |
| h. Steve Beuning, Xcel Energy [pdf] | |
| i. Stefan Bird, Pacificorp [pdf] | |
| Background information | |
| Joint initiatives | |
| Columbia Grid | |
| WestConnect | |
| Northern Tier Transmission Group | |
| Variable generation subcommittee | |
| Noon | CREPC business meeting |
| Draft CREPC 2009-2010 workplan | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn |