1. Bob Anderson West Wind Wires Siting and Policy Wind Power Plants* 119th Annual Convention Anaheim, CA November 16, 2007 NARUC *transmission, too

2. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 2 Wind is good idea  Great energy resource  Less valuable for capacity

3. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 3 The benefits  Environment  Energy resource, offsets fossil emissions  Nox,Sox  Particulates  Mercury  CO2  Climate  No water use  Customer savings  Hedges against fuel price & carbon risk  Energy security  Rural economic development  Public support

4. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 4 Vision 20% by 2030  Energy basis  Now 1%  AWEA-DOE-NREL roadmap

5. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 5 U.S. lags in wind penetration

6. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 6 20% Vision

7. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 7 20% Vision Costs and Benefits Incremental Costs$43 billion Emission reductions825 MM tons CO2 $98 billion Water savings8% total electric 17% in 2030 Jobs140,000 direct $450 billion Natural gas savings11% in 2030 $150 billion

8. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 8 The Wind Industry Knows it must be exemplary with siting to have a snowball’s chance

9. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 9 Siting issues  Wildlife  Birds  Bats  Visual  Noise  Property values  Radar  Military

10. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 10 Wildlife  Birds  Mortality  Of concern, but  <.003 of human-caused mortality  Worse are buildings, telecom towers, vehicles, cats  Much-improved turbine & tower design  Tall  No lattices for perching  Slow rotation  But the issue is serious  Burden is on wind to maintain support of bird lovers

11. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 11 It’s the law  Migratory bird treaty act of 1918  Bald eagle protection act of 1940  Endangered species act of 1973

12. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 12 Wildlife Addressing the issue  American Wind Wildlife Institute  NWCC Wildlife & Siting committees  US FWS developing guidelines  Audubon  Top threat to birds is climate change  Wind needed  Minimize impacts  Western Governors’ Association  Wildlife Corridors Initiative: Energy Working Group

13. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 13 Wildlife  Bats  West Virginia--large number of bats killed  Bats & Wind Energy Cooperative  AWEA  Bat Conservation International  NREL  US FWS

14. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 14 Visual  Beauty and blight are in the eye of the beholder

15. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 15 Property values  Concerns  “Industrialization of community”  Scenic degradation  Nuisance (e.g. noise, flicker, …)  Evidence  Wind can reduce property values, but  Not widespread  LBL research

16. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 16 Radar  Visibility = interference  Impact mission?  Small % do  FAA assessments  8,000 last year  Mitigation  Software & technology  Location & shielding  Stealth technology

17. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 17 Military Flight paths  Cooperation, but  Weak incentives

18. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 18 Transmission  Major expansion needed  Transmission planning under way  Projects are emerging  Siting  Controversial  Difficult  Significant impacts

19. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 19 Give 20% a chance  It’s needed  Climate change  Enormous challenges  Tech improvement and supply  Siting  Wind’s performance must be exemplary  Many siting issues  No show stoppers  Public confronts tradeoffs & choices  Wind also needs policy support

20. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 20 Policy needs  Generation planning  Transmission  Markets

21. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 21 Generation  RPS  Energy first planning  Low/no carbon sources  NO compromising reliability

22. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 22 Transmission  Wind only or wind first planning  Transmission to renewables zones  State transmission authority  Annual landowner payments  Tariffs for better use of existing grid

23. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 23 Markets  Procurement  Utility owership?  Shareholder incentives for good purchasing  Interstate coordination, e.g. IRP cycles  Regional  More efficient, liquid  RECs  All electricity products

24. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 24 Regional  Act locally, but think regionally  Spatial diversity of wind = better capacity factor  Markets  Real, virtual  Regional working groups

25. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 25 Wind  Will grow rapidly  Success will depend on  Good performance by wind industry  Good siting  Low impact wind farms  Transmission  Maintaining public support  Good public policy

26. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 26 A few useful urls  http://www.nrel.gov/wind/pdfs/23115.pdf http://www.nrel.gov/wind/pdfs/23115.pdf  http://www.nationalwind.org/workgroups/siting/ http://www.nationalwind.org/workgroups/siting/  http://www.nationalwind.org/workgroups/wildlife/ http://www.nationalwind.org/workgroups/wildlife/  http://eeredev.nrel.gov/windandhydro/federalwindsiting http://eeredev.nrel.gov/windandhydro/federalwindsiting  http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=91140&t itle=jason-jones-180-%96-nantucket http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=91140&t itle=jason-jones-180-%96-nantucket  http://www.interwest.org/documents/documents/2006-08-21.htm http://www.interwest.org/documents/documents/2006-08-21.htm  http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html

27. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 27 Contact Bob Anderson West Wind Wires bob-a@sbcglobal.net 775-588-8740

28. NARUC November 16, 2007 Bob Anderson West Wind Wires 28 Answers Harris hawk Townsend’s long-eared bat Kennedy compound Nantucket Sound