Agenda 
for the
Western Interconnection Wind Evaluation Team (WIWET)
casual attire (no ties)

Adams Mark Hotel

Denver, Colorado

November 30, 2004
 

 

Agenda
 

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

1:00 p.m. I.    Introduction
Doug Larson and Thomas Carr, Western Interstate Energy Board
·  Welcome
·  Background and Purpose

 
1:15 p.m. II.  Wind Energy and Transmission Issues
Ron Lehr, American Wind Energy Association [pdf]
·  Variability, Operating Issues
·  Wind Capacity Value
·   OATT Tariff Issues
      o Scheduling, Imbalance Penalties
      o Firm, Non-Firm Transmission Services
      o Rate Pancaking
·  Lack of Transmission to Wind Resource Areas
·  Short-term Options to Address Issues
      o Forecasting, Scheduling Reforms
      o Effective Load Carrying Capacity
      o Dynamic Scheduling
      o Virtual Wheeling, Interchanges
      o Contingent Firm, Priority Non-Firm Service
·  Long-term Options
      o RTO Markets
      o Transmission Line Upgrades
      o Transmission Planning

 
Mike Jacobs, American Wind Energy Association  
·  FERC Interconnection Tariff Issues
·  Order 2003A Appendix G
      o AWEA Grid Code Proposal
      o FERC September Meeting Proposal
·  Allocation of Transmission Rights
·  Allocation of Transmission Costs

 
Natalie McIntire, Renewable Northwest Project [pdf]
·  Proposed Conditional-Firm Transmission Product
·  Transmission Queue Issues
·  Discussion

 
·  Background Material
      o Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study
             P  Tariff Proposal, Chap. 5.B
      o American Wind Energy Association
             P White Paper: Transmission Access for Wind
             P Grid Code Proposal
             P Lehr Paper
      o National Wind Coordinating Committee 
             P Wind Energy, Congestion Management and Transmission Rights
             P Implications of Energy Scheduling Requirements for Wind Energy
             P Wind Energy Interconnection
             P Transmission Planning and Wind Energy
      o Renewable Northwest Project
             P Proposed Conditional-Firm Product
      o Transmission Access Policy Study Group 
             P Comments to FERC re: transmission discrimination

 

3:15 p.m. Break

 

3:30 p.m. III.  BLM's Proposed Wind Energy Policy and Draft EIS
Lee Otteni, Bureau of Land Management [pdf]
·  BLM Lands and Wind Energy Development
·  BLM's Wind Energy Policy
·  Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Comments
·  Discussion
·  Background Material
      o BLM Wind Energy Draft EIS
      o BLM Wind Energy Interim Policy

 

4:00 p.m. IV.  State Reports On Recent Wind Developments

 

5:30 p.m. Adjourn