February 5, 2010

Indiana Wind Working GroupAgenda – February 5, 2010• Introductions• Structural change to group efforts• Eastern Wind Integration & Transmission Study• Wind farm economic analysis/Wind turbine

demand study• Supply chain database• Great Lakes regional efforts• Recent News• Upcoming Events

Time for a change…Moving away from committee format

Encourage those still interested in moving forward with concepts developed to contact their chair

Focus on the economic development aspects of windHow can we better promote the policy,

infrastructure, permitting, manufacturing, and educational attributes of Indiana to make the wind industry flourish in our state?

EWITSEastern Wind Integration & Transmission

Study (EWITS)NREL, w/ private partners, modeled four

scenariosRigorous tech review to model the resource,

analyze transmission requirements, and how that wind can then be integrated onto the grid with other generation sources

ww.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/ewits.html

Local Wind Economic Development Analysis Multiple phases (estimation, rectification, and publication)

Initial phase: Gross estimates utilizing JEDI model complete roughly shows that just over $2.1 billion has been invested in these

projects; potential investment is $8.2 billion Approximately $370 million spent locally during construction Annually operating expenses expected to be near $360 million of which

$3.1 million returns to the landowners in lease payments and $6.6 million will be spent locally on operations and maintenance

Second phase: Attempt to verify that the information is in the ballpark Consultation with developers, local officials, and landowners All information remains anonymous

Third phase: Take accumulated data and produce paper Will be sent to those involved for review prior to phase four publication

and distribution Will contribute Wind Turbine Demand Study for the Great Lakes’ region Need to something similar for small wind

Supply Chain Database (Supplier Insight)• Sponsored by Conexus Indiana and the Indiana

Economic Development Corporation• Mechanism for suppliers to register their capabilities

and streamline business connections– Must have Indiana address to register as supplier– Global entities can register as a buyer– Two training dates next week (will notify if interested)

• http://app.suppliergateway.com/conexus***Please wait until Monday to access the website***

Great Lakes Regional Efforts

• Great Lakes Wind Collaborative – http://www.glc.org/energy/wind/publications.html– Best Practices Paper– Offshore Siting Principles for Wind Development in Great

Lakes– Wind Turbine Demand Study– Atlas

• Great Lakes Regional Wind Energy Institute– Upcoming events:

• Wind Turbine Syndrome webinar (Feb 11th at 11am EST)– https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join/ ; Conference number:

PW1627857; Audience passcode: 9348502• Annual Meeting (March 1st and 2nd)

– Here in Indy this year!– Strong speaker line up– Need strong Indiana presence; RSVP to me by Mon. Feb 22nd

Indiana News• Record year in 2009 for big wind

– 905 MW brought online (up to 1036 MW)• Second only to Texas for the year; Third in percentage

increase

• APE review for small wind– Looking over energy production data

• WIndiana 2010 planning (July 21-22; Convention Center)

• Legislation active in the statehouse• Anemometer Loan Program• Manufacturing ramping up

– Brevini; Vela Gear win federal tax incentives– Windstream Technologies building in New Albany

Upcoming Events• Look to www.energy.in.gov for strong listing of events• 2/10/2010 Southern Indiana Renewable Energy Network meeting (

http://sirensolar.org/ )• 2/11/2010 Wind Turbine Syndrome: Myths and Facts Webinar• 2/12/2010 Powering the Global Supply Chain (

http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/centers/dcmme_gscmi/conferences/index.html)

• 2/17/2010 NREL Economic Development Case Studies Webinar (http://www.windwebinars.govtools.us/)

• 2/17-18/2010 AWEA Wind Power Siting Workshop (http://www.awea.org/events/projectsiting10/)

• 2/22-25/2010 Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo (http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/renewable-energy-world-north-america/events/renewable-energy-world-conference-expo-north-america )

• 3/2-3/2010 AWEA Wind and Transmission Workshop (http://www.awea.org/events/transmission10/)

• 5/24-26/2010 Windpower 2010 (http://2010.windpowerexpo.org/)