Transcript Wind Task Force Report to the Clean and Diversified Energy

Investing in Clean Energy
For the Pacific Northwest
Rachel Shimshak
Director, Renewable Northwest Project
Washington State Convention and
Trade Center
Seattle, WA
October 4, 2006
Renewable Northwest Project
(RNP)
Goals:
Site projects properly
Advance sound policy to benefit whole
industry
Expand market for green power
Overview
• Benefits
• What’s
Happening
and
Why
• Public Policies
• Conclusion
Benefits
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Diversity
Local Economic Development
Environmental
Risk Reduction
2006 Powerful Choices
 Over 100,000 retail green power
customers
 Over 731,000,000 kWh sold
 Equivalent of 83aMW,
or a 250 MW wind project
 39 utilities offering 48 products
 3 NW utilities made NREL’s Top
Ten last year in 2005
Organizations Meeting the Clean
Energy Challenge
Partial List:
 Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters
 CH2MHill
 City of Walla Walla
 Fairchild Air Force Base
 Global Energy Concepts
 Kinko’s, Inc.
 Staples
 Starbucks
 Stoel Rives LLP
 Western Washington University
 Whitman College
Polling
• April, 2005 Washington state poll found that
significant majorities support requiring utilities
to use 15% new renewables in their electricity
supply.
• May, 2006 Washington state poll found that
significant majorities (over 85%) support the
increased use of solar and wind energy.
• August, 2006 national poll found bi-partisan
support for requiring industry to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions.
Public Policies
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Western Governor’s Association/CDEAC
Washington Initiative I-937
Oregon System Benefit Charge
Potential Oregon RPS
Key Findings of CDEAC
• More than 30,000 MW of clean
and diversified energy available
• Plenty of cost-effective
energy efficiency
• Recommendations
practical, politically & economically
achievable
WA Clean Energy Initiative
I-937
• 15% new renewables by 2020
• All cost-effective conservation
• Cost cap
Conclusion
• Tangible projects make renewables real
• Customers support clean energy - market pull
• Federal, regional, state policies create markets
--policy push
• Combination creates
investment opportunities