News Meetings April 8-10 Agenda

 
Council Meeting Agenda ? Power Committee

Tuesday, April 8, 2003
8:30 AM ? 2:00 PM

1. Briefing and discussion of revisions to the draft demand and fuel price forecasts ? Terry Morlan, Manager, Economic Analysis ? See Attachment A (40k PDF)

2. Panel and discussion on the opportunities for and obstacles to renewable resources
   • Rachel Shimshak, Renewables Northwest Project
   • Terry Hudgens, President and CEO, PPM Energy Inc.
   • Robert Klein, Group Energy Risk Director for Scottish Power
   • Larry Felton, Power Resources Engineer, Okanogan PUD
   • Elliot Mainzer, Manager, Pricing and Transaction Analysis, BPA
   • Ken Westrick, President and CEO, 3 Tier Group

The panel was asked to address the following questions:

• What is the realistically-developable wind resource potential (to the nearest 1000 MW?), irrespective of shaping issues, in eastern Washington & Oregon (S. ID, too) given current development criteria (private dryland wheat or grazing land, nearby interconnection (230 kV or less), 50 MW minimum project size, not too near aesthetically-sensitive areas)?
• What is the current thinking (including range of opinion) on shaping costs?  How might marginal shaping costs change with increased wind capacity, with and without increased geographic diversity of the wind resource?
• How would the availability of non-firm transmission affect the economics of windpower?  How would such a system work in terms of the relationship of wind providers to holders of firm transmission rights?  How much development potential would this bring to the table?

3. Panel and discussion on the opportunity for and the obstacles to the supply to the NW of co-generated power from Alberta Oil Sands Development
   • Oil sands development ? will it happen?
     • Bob Taylor, Assistant Deputy Minister, Oil Development Division, Alberta Department of Energy
     • Murray Nelson, Executive Advisor to Deputy Minister on Electricity, Alberta Department of Energy

Will address:

• Location and description of the resource
• Comparison of oil sands to off-shore oil reserves
• Companies involved in oil sands projects
• Spending under way on oil sands projects
• Anticipated annual production from the oil sands
• The cost of oil from the oil sands

• Electric Generation at the oil sands
  Doug Shaigec, Trans-Canada Pipelines

Will Address:

• Technologies used for the extraction of oil
• Heat requirements for oil extraction
• Use of cogeneration in the oil sands
• Efficiencies of cogeneration
• The cost of oil sands cogeneration
• Cogeneration potential from the oil sands
• Challenges for cogeneration development

• Accessing Electricity Supply from Alberta
  Brad Thomson, Northern Lights Transmission

Will Address:

• Alternatives for connecting Alberta and the Pac NW
• Comparison of transmission alternatives
• Description of NorthernLights
• Advantages of a DC line for inter-regional connections
• Timeline for completion the DC line
• Challenges for construction of new DC transmission

4. Presentation and discussion of the role of conservation in the region's power supply and the preliminary conservation supply for the 5^th Power Plan ? Tom Eckman, Conservation Manager

Lunch will be brought in for Council members if necessary.

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