Overview of U'S' DOE Wind Powering America Program

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Overview of U.S. DOE Wind Powering America
Program

• Randy Manion
• February 18, 2006
• Orlando, Florida

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• Wind Power Today

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Sizes and Applications

• Small (?10 kW)
• Homes (Grid
• connected)
• Farms
• Remote Applications
• (e.g. battery charging, water pumping, telecom
  sites, icemaking)

• Intermediate
• (10-500 kW)
• Village Power
• Hybrid Systems
• Distributed Power

• Large (500 kW 6 MW)
• Central Station Wind Farms
• Distributed Power
• Offshore Wind Generation
• Stations

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GE WIND 1.5 MW
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Capacity Cost Trends
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World Growth Market
Total Installed Wind Capacity
1. Germany 14000 MW 2. United States 6374 MW
3. Spain 5780 MW 4. Denmark 3094 MW 5.
India 1900 MW
World total 2005 37220 MW
Source WindPower Monthly
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U.S. Wind Power Capacity (MW)
Massachusetts 1.0
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Wind System Performance

• 98 Availability
• 20-25 yr Life
• Composite Blades
• Variable Pitch Blades
• Capacity Factor (30-40)
• Ancillary Service Costs
• 80-90ft Blades
• 190-220ft Hub Height
• 30-50 tons
• Nacelle can hold a Chevy Suburban

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• Overview of Wind Powering
• America Program

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Wind Powering America Strategy
Goal By 2010, at least 100 MW installed in 30
states
Bold - State Wind Working Group Red Priority
State
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Operating Principles

• Work at the market margins
• Leverage existing institutional partnerships
• Create strategic partnerships
• Create, educate, and support wind working groups
• Create and disseminate targeted info, analyses,
  and tools
• Select and address strategic challenges and
  special opportunities
• Utilize existing national, regional, and local
  expertise
• Coordinate with established wind institutional
  resources

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• Overview of FY 2005 Wind Powering America Program
• Activities

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WPA General Activities

• Strategy team
• State Summit
• BLM-EIS support
• WPA Web site
• Schools pilot
• WEF technical support
• Advocates awards
• FEMP TA

• State Lands policy support
• Energy/Air nexus analysis
• Publications
• NWCC participation
• Stakeholder interviews
• WINDPOWER 05 paper
• SEPs (Tall Tower)
• Utility Partnerships

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Wind Resource Mapping
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Utility Partnerships

• NRECA workshops
• APPA/NRECA meetings participation (WAPA)
• Wind Energy Finance (WEF) tool
• Co-op TA (e.g., AVEC)
• Targeted publications
• UWIG participation
• Public Power Web site
• PMA Green Tags
• Annual Awards
• WAPA Collaboration

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Utility Partnership Products
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Utility Awards
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Wind Co-op
of the Year Award 2004 (NRECA)
Austin Energy, Public Power Wind Pioneer Award
2005 (APPA)
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Carpe Ventem Awards (ID, MT)
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FY05 Activities Farm Bill
FY05 Large Wind Applications

• Outreach
• Tools
• Developed the small wind sample application
• Developed program presentations tailored for wind
  working groups
• Workshops
• Presented small/large wind application process
• Webcasts
• Developed and presented webcasts
• Regulations
• Financial Need (expanded definition to include
  cash-flow basis) Appendix A (simplified
  application technical requirements for small
  wind)
• Liaison
• Economic Impacts
• Fostered communication between USDA policy makers
  and WPA
• Trainings
• Conducted training of all USDA state rural energy
  coordinators on large/small wind technology

• Results
• Over 27M in grants to wind
• Over 240M in associated project costs
• 95 community scale projects
• 28 small wind projects

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Renewables Federal Lands

• National Energy Policy, May 2001
• Increase Renewable Energy Development and Use on
  Federal Lands
• DOE-Interior Lead Interagency Effort
• August 2002 Summary Report to White House
• Bureau of Land Management
• Resource Assessment/Revision of Land Use Plans
• DOE/NREL Support MOU
• February 2003 Report Top Sites
• Forest Service
• Review of BLM Process Products
• Briefings from DOE/NREL staff
• Department of Defense
• 6 million assessment of renewables on or near
  military bases
• DOE labs providing technical support

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Native American Tribal Outreach

• Anemometer loan program
• NAWIG
• DOE/TEP wind projects technical assistance
• WEATS
• Wind-diesel workshop
• Wind Powering Native America video

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FY05 Activities - Communications

• Wind Energy Benefits fact sheet
• Wind Energy Myths fact sheet
• RPS fact sheet
• Rural economic development tabletop exhibit
  customized for 20 states
• 12,000 copies of small wind consumers guides,
  including 8 new states and new Spanish version
• NAWIG News
• 40,000 copies of materials distributed
• Exhibits at 33 events

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WPA Website
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State Outreach

• New small wind consumers guides NY, HI, MO, MI,
  IN, OK, UT, NV
• Conference Exhibits AK, AZ, MT, UT, SD, NE, ND,
  WY, CO, NM, OK, KS, TX, MO

• Customized rural economic development exhibit
  CO, AZ, HI, ID, KS, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC,
  OH, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, VA, WY

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FY05 Activities Small Wind

• Windpower 05 papers
• 6 IREC Newsletters
• 3rd IREC State Stakeholder meeting at NWTC
• 9 new state consumer guides 2 state reprints
• Spanish version of U.S. consumer guide
• 3 new state Clean Power Estimator tools
• 14 small wind workshops
• 2 site-specific economic analyses

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Economic Development Activities

• Economic development brochure, exhibit, articles,
  and fact sheets
• Economic development Web page
• Economic development information database
• Job and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) model
• Analysis of the economic development benefits of
  new wind plants in 6 windy counties in Montana
• JEDI analysis in AZ, MI, MT, NC, OR, UT, VA
• AWEA presentation Wind Energy for Rural Economic
  Development
• Comparative analysis of generation sources for
  CO, MI, AZ (AWEA presentation)

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Wind for Schools
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• Wind Power Tomorrow

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Wind Energy Economic Security Benefits

• Wind energy is an indigenous, homegrown, energy
  resource that contributes to national security.
• Wind energy is inexhaustible and infinitely
  renewable.
• Wind displaces electricity that would otherwise
  be produced by burning natural gas, thus helping
  to reduce gas demand and limit gas price hikes.
• Wind energy is the least cost new energy source.
• Wind energy boosts rural economic development.
• Unlike most other electricity generation sources,
  wind turbines dont consume water.
• Wind energy has many environmental benefits.
• Wind energy can be used in a variety of
  applications.
• Wind energy is the fuel of today and tomorrow.

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Volatile Natural Gas Prices(Spot Prices
1990-2003)
Period of suspected market manipulation
No suspected market manipulation
Source NYMEX Institute for Energy, Law
Enterprise, 2003
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Economic Development Impacts

• Land Lease Payments 2-3 of gross revenue
  2500-4000/MW/year
• Local property tax revenue 100 MW brings in on
  the order of 1 million/yr
• 1-2 jobs/MW during construction
• 2-5 permanent OM jobs per 50-100 MW,
• Local construction and service industry
  concrete, towers usually done locally
• Manufacturing and Assembly plants expanding in
  U.S. (Micon in IL, LM Glasfiber in ND)

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Offshore Wind

• Program Activities
• NWCC Offshore Workshop, July 2003
• Deep-water Tech. Offshore Mtg, Fall 2003
• LWST Phase II Solicitation Offshore element
• Tracking Enviro. Issues and U.S. Offshore
  Projects
• Assessing European Offshore Activities

• Benefits Issues
• Higher-quality wind resources
• Economies of scale
• Proximity to loads
• Reduced land use aesthetic concerns
• Jurisdictional issues Federal, state, local
• Capital/maintenance costs
• Navigable water uses

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Key Deployment Issues for Wind Power

• Permitting and Siting (visual, noise, avian, land
  use)
• Transmission capacity allocation, RTO formation,
  new line builds/planning
• Power Variability impact on utility operations
• Evolving competitive markets
• Green power markets
• Policy environment PTC, RPS, state tax
  provisions

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Summary of Wind Power Tomorrow

• Benefits
• Stabilize/Hedge Energy Prices
• Abundant Domestic Energy Resource
• Safe, Pollution Free
• Low-Cost Emissions Investment
• Stretch Existing Fossil Fuels
• Issues
• Economics
• Intermittency
• Transmission
• Utility Operations Impacts
• Aesthetics, Noise
• Avian

• Markets
• Distributed Generation
• Wind / Hydrogen
• Wind / Hydropower
• Wind/Clean Water
• Offshore Wind
• Final Analysis
• Wind Market will grow but how much?
• Legislation (RPS, PTC, State Tax)
• Public/utility acceptance and demand

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• Overview of FY 2006 Wind Powering America Program
• Activities

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FY06 Planned Activities

• Improve small wind WPA page every other month
  feature stories, news, events (Dec, Feb, Apr,
  June, Aug)
• IREC 5 newsletters 4th State Stakeholder
  meeting in conjunction with Windpower 06
• Build small wind presence in TVA territory
  economic analysis
• Reprint and develop consumers guides
• Create How to appendix
• Customize guides for LIPA, VA (creating their own
  version), agricultural organizations - TBD
• Develop MSR partnerships pilot in Northeast
• Small wind/rural electric co-ops nexus
• Co-fund the adaptation of state Clean Power
  Estimator
• Co-funded outreach to science teachers
• Zoning technical support
• USDA/Farm Bill outreach
• Document strategic case studies
• Session chair for ASES 06

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FY06 Planned Activities States

• WWG support
• Workshops
• State lands policy maps
• Farm Bill outreach
• Wind for schools replication
• Wind-air nexus
• Comparative analysis of generation options
• New small wind consumers guides for three states
  (TBD)
• All States Summit, Pittsburgh

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FY06 Planned Activities Farm Bill

• Outreach products
• Sample Applications
• Develop updated small wind application for the
  simplified application procedure
• Develop sample application for community-wind-scal
  e projects
• Presentations
• Develop wind-specific presentations for the
  program under the new regulation
• Trainings
• Conduct Web-based state-specific Farm Bill
  trainings for all FY06 focus states
• Presentations
• Participate in key annual meetings in focus states

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Planned FY06 Wind for Schools Activities

• Present lessons learned and approach to Annual
  Green Power Marketing conference Oct 2005
• Develop Wind for Schools module on WPA Web site
• Implement hardware in 6 Colorado schools (ED 06)
• Replicate wind for schools pilot in one state per
  region
• Present project at AWEA June 2006

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FY06 Planned Activities Wind Mapping

• Validation of preliminary wind maps planned for
  the following regions
• Alaska areas east of Anchorage-Fairbanks (Nov05)
• Alaska panhandle (Feb06)
• Arkansas (Jun06)
• Kentucky and Tennessee or Puerto Rico and Virgin
  Islands (Sep06)
• Abstract submitted (with AEA) to Windpower 2006
  on Alaska wind mapping and project development
  applications

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Planned FY06 Ag Outreach and Economic
Development Activities

• Participate in state ag meetings
• Expand the ag outreach team
• Provide webcasts on topics of interest
• Train the trainers
• Add coal and natural gas modules to JEDI Model
• Produce wind guidebooks for county commissioners
• Model comparative economic impacts of alternative
  generation for 6-10 states (VA, NC, MI, OH, IL,
  NE, AZ, UT, ID, NV)
• Expand economic development case studies

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FY06 Planned Activities Wind Powering America
Web Site

• Create schools section
• Add Economic Impact Case Studies Database (20
  case studies)
• Increase the number of visitors (industry
  partnership endorsements, radio, TX-OK driving
  tour, billboards, etc.)
• Enhance state activity sections
• Use an integrated development environment (IDE).
  More efficient to create, handle, and update
  across the Web site
• Create search forms such as http//www.eere.energ
  y.gov/state_energy_program/state_publications.cfm

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FY06 Planned Activities - Communications

• New fact sheets in-depth examination of each of
  the Top 10 benefits, wind/water nexus, Tegen
  analysis results, bats, ag-related FAQs,
  community options, wind scene investigation
• Poster of 2005 wind projects
• Revised co-ops brochure
• 4 new small wind consumers guides
• NAWIG News
• New exhibit with interchangeable panels
• Exhibits at 30 events

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FY06 Utility Partnerships

• NRECA and APPA Workshops and Webcasts
• Expanded Wind Brief for Public Power Utilities
• Updating Wind in a Box CD
• Grant with NRECA - CRN
• Targeted publications
• UWIG participation
• Public Power Web site
• Annual Awards
• Technical Assistance

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FY06 Native American Activities

• Anemometer Loan Program
• Short 5-10 installations
• Tall 6 installations total (one tower already
  installed this FY)
• WEATS
• 101 1-4 August
• 202 2-3 August
• Support to TEP Program
• Regional Wind/EPACT Workshops
• Tribal Trifold
• Appropriate participation in national, regional,
  and tribal meetings