The Utility Viewpoint on Renewable Energy

July 20, 2005

Presentation Materials

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Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Kyle Davis, Manager, Environmental Policy & Strategy, Mid-American Co.
- The Economics of Utility Ownership of Wind Energy Facilities

David Lock, Governmental Affairs Officer, Platte River Power Authority; and Executive Director, Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities
- Colorado RPS and Case Study

Jay Morrison, Regulatory Counsel, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
- Renewable Energy: A Co-op Point of View

Additional Resources:

Guy Sliker, New York Power Authority
- Renewable Resources in New York

Reference Materials:

Utility Resources

• Snapshot of alternative energy activities by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) members:
  http://www.nreca.coop/nreca/Policy/Regulatory/Documents/alternativeenergyOct04.pdf
• NRECA clean energy bond issue brief:
  http://www.nreca.coop/nreca/Policy/Legislative/Binaries/CleanEnergyBond.pdf
• Morrison, Jay, Renewable Energy Policy: Promoting New State Strategies, The Council of State Governments, SPECTRUM (Summer 2004).
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) White Paper on Wind Power:
  http://www.nreca.org/nreca/Policy/Regulatory/WhitePaper.html
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Distributed Generation Toolkit:
  http://www.nreca.org/nreca/Policy/Regulatory/DGToolKit/index.html
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) issue paper on net metering:
  http://www.nreca.org/nreca/Policy/Regulatory/Documents/NetMetering.pdf
• NRECA and APPA joint comments responding to FERC's proposed rule on Interconnection for wind energy and other alternate technologies:
  http://www.nreca.org/nreca/Policy/Regulatory/Documents/WindNRECA.pdf
• Edison Electric Institute paper on fuel diversity:
  http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/energy_infrastructure/fuel_diversity/FuelDiversity.pdf
• WE Energies program:
  http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/environment/voluntary_efforts/
  electric_customer_stories/we.htm
• Edison Electric Institute, A Nationwide "Renewable Portfolio Standard" (RPS) Would Raise Consumers' Electricity Prices and Create Inequities Among States:
  http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/electricity_policy/federal_legislation/EEI_RPS.pdf
• Edison Electric Institute, Six Ways to Improve Green Marketing:
  http://www.eei.org/magazine/editorial_content/nonav_stories/2005-01-01-GreenMkt.htm
• Cliburn, 20 By 2020, Public Power (September-October 2004):
  http://www.appanet.org/newsletters/ppmagazinedetailarchive.cfm?ItemNumber=10205
• Atkinson, Renewable Energy Strategies, Public Power (March-April 2005):
  http://www.appanet.org/newsletters/ppmagazinedetailarchive.cfm?ItemNumber=12404
• American Public Power Association Resolution: 05-15, In Support of Comparable Tax Incentives for Investment in Renewable Energy and Clean Technologies:
  http://www.appanet.org/files/PDFs/Resolution05-15LRfinalJune212005.pdf

Colorado and Iowa Web Addresses

• Colorado Public Utilities Commission web-link to Colorado RPS:
  http://www.dora.state.co.us/PUC/rulemaking/Amendment37.htm
• Platte River Power Authority web site
  http://www.prpa.org/
• Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities web site:
  http://www.coloradopublicpower.org/amendment_37.htm
• MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company alternative energy activities:
  http://www.midamericanenergy.com/html/environment5.asp

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