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Kettle Falls Generating Station, Celebrating 25 Years Of Clean, Green Renewable Energy Ron Gray

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Kettle Falls Generating Station, Celebrating 25 Years Of Clean, Green Renewable Energy Ron Gray

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  1. Avista Utilities has been providing reliable, efficient and competitively priced energy to customers for nearly 120 years. Avista Utilities' primary market area covers more than 30,000 square miles, with energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities in four Western states. The company serves more than 335,000 electric customers in eastern Washington and northern Idaho, and provides natural gas service to over 304,000 customers in eastern Washington, northern Idaho and throughout Oregon. Avista Corp. is an energy company involved in the production, transmission and distribution of energy as well as other energy-related businesses.

  2. Kettle Falls Generating Station, Celebrating 25 Years Of Clean, Green Renewable Energy Ron Gray Fuel Manager

  3. What is Hog Fuel? • Slash from trees • Waste from sawmills • Combustible materials to burn to produce energy +

  4. We buy it...

  5. The trucks bring it...

  6. We burn it...

  7. It makes electricity!

  8. Questions ?

  9. Kettle Falls Generating Station Celebrating 25 years ! We are Clean, Green, Renewable Energy !

  10. Kettle Falls Generating Station • 50 MW/Hr Gross • 47 MW/Hr Net (MW = 1,000,000 watts) • One CE boiler • Single GE turbine, 65,000 HP • One MW = enough energy to power 600 to 1,000 homes • 800 homes * 47 MW * 3 individuals/household = 112,800 people

  11. Power plant economics • Access to reasonably priced fuel in relation to energy markets • Access to water for cooling purposes • Access to transmission lines • A willing (or not so willing buyer) for the energy • High reliability for energy produced

  12. Cost of Generation • Biomass, new $85 – 90/MW (some tax credits) • Wind $80 but large tax credits • Combined Cycle gas $65 • Idaho PURPA rate around $70 (2008) • RPS for WA and OR • KFGS part of Avista rate base

  13. Keys to success for biomass energy • It’s all about the fuel, availability, availability, availability.10 to 20 year supply • Stay engaged in the political and education process. Tell your story to anyone who will listen. • Actively engage employees of current events so they are good ambassadors for the facility. • Seek partnerships with traditional foes and allies. • Look for long term commitments with suppliers.

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