(Updated 2/09/01 – Under Continuous Development and Revision)
WGA Resolution 00-036-
“Energy Policy for the Americas”
(pdf file)
Roundtable I: Immediate
energy outlook and needed actions
Governors’ December 20
Five-Point Plan
Western
States’ Short-Term Energy Conservation Strategy
California; New
Mexico; Oregon;
Washington;
Montana
Current situation
Weather and Climate
Outlook
NOAA
Forecasts of temperatures (A = Above Normal; B = Below Normal)
NOAA
forecasts of precipitation (A = Above Normal; B = Below Normal)
British
Columbia water conditions
Electricity
Consumption in the Western Interconnection (by state, by sector)
Electricity
expenditures as a percent of personal income (by state)
Background
Map of North American
power grids
Generation additions during
the past two decades
Historical
electricity growth by state
Reduced
efficiency investments by western utilities
Projected reserve
requirements
Immediate energy
efficiency options
Power Pricing Options
Excerpt of FERC order of
December 15
FERC orders California Power Exchange to comply with
Dec. 15 order
Press release
(pdf file)
Order (pdf
file)
Status
of long-term contracts in California
Roundtable II: An agenda to develop additional energy supplies and use energy more efficiently in
the industrial, commercial and residential sectors
Governor Jim Geringer’s (WY) Presentation to the Western Regional Council on Energy Policy
State by state energy consumption
Total energy
expenditures as a percent of personal income (by state)
Production
Consumption
Commercial and
residential energy use
Tax and Financial Considerations
Current Tax Subsidies
Energy Tax Policy: An Economic
Analysis (Congressional Research Service 2000)
Energy Tax Policy (Congressional
Research Service 2000)
Federal financial interventions and subsidies in energy markets 1999: Primary energy (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
Current
Financial Issues
Environmental Considerations
Western
governors’ views on environmental management (pdf)
WGA Policy Resolution on
Air Quality Reform
International/Security Considerations
OPEC policy on oil
prices
Opening
address to January17, 2001 meeting
