WECC Wind Development Plan

1. WECC Wind Development Plan SSG-WI Working Group September 5, 2002 James H. Caldwell Jr. American Wind Energy Association

2. WECC Wind Development Plan State On-Line 2002-2007 2008-2013 AZ - 200 100 CA 1716 1300 500 CO 61 900 100 ID - 500 100 MT - 800 2900 NV - 500 700 NM 1 800 700 OR 157 800 100 UT - 600 400 WA 178 1000 100 WY 1416006300 WECC Total 2254 8000 12000

3. WECC Wind Development Plan • Total 20K MW development less than 10% of economic resource potential • All projects economic with today’s technology and $4 gas • Rate of development consistent with state/federal policy (principally Renewable Portfolio Standard) • No major markets saturated at this development level

4. WECC Wind Development PlanTo Do • Iterate with transmission gurus • Iterate with other generation scenarios • Intra-state breakdowns where necessary • Define hourly by month production profiles

5. WECC Wind Development PlanIssues • Study scope – power flow plus stability analysis? • What is a wind turbine ? (pure induction vs. doubly fed vs. full VSC) • What is a wind farm ? (sq. root of sum of squares; int & ext cap banks; SVCs; FACTS whizz bangs) • Treatment of existing physical transmission rights • Redispatch protocols – hydro and thermal • WECC Compliant RAS • Optimization of losses given low wind capacity factor • Optimization of congestion rents – market power mitigation • Queue protocols • FERC Interconnection NOPR : “Aggregate of generation delivered to aggregate of load assuming redispatch.”