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Mark Parkinson
Lt. Governor, State of Kansas
Climate Change Climate Change Impacts on Kansas
Source: Washington State Department of Ecology
Until 1750 and the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide measured in parts per million (ppm) never exceed 275. However since that time the rate of increase is approximately 2 ppm/year and is now over 380 ppm. You can see a direct correlation between the increase in temperature and increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Source: IPCC Working Group 1
Source: Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
Source: EPA
August 1941 August 2004
Muir Glacier, Alaska, 1941-2004
Current Change: Coastal Glaciers are Retreating
NSIDC/WDC for Glaciology, Boulder, compiler. 2002, updated 2006. Online glacierphotograph database. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Source: John P. Holden, Harvard
Current Change: Coastal Glaciers are Retreating
Mountainglaciers areShrinking
Qori KalisGlacier, Peru
Source: John P. Holden, Harvard
ARCTIC SEAICE BOUNDARY IN 1979
Since 1979, more than20% of the polar Ice Cap
has melted away.
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
PHOTO: NASA
Tangible effects: Sea Levels
Siberian lakes shrink as the Arctic permafrost beneath them melts
Satellite images: minimum levels of Arctic sea ice in the summers of 1979 (left) and 2005 demonstrate warming trend. (Futurist Magazine)
IPCC estimates that the global average sea level will rise by 7.2 to 23.6 inches by 2100.
Surface melting on Greenland is expanding
In 1992 scientists measured hisamount of melting in Greenland as indicated by red areas on the map
Ten years later, in 2002, themelting was much worse
And in 2005, it accelerateddramatically yet again
Source: ACIA, 2004 and CIRES, 2005
Why it matters to Kansas… negative effects on the state
Source: IPCC
Temperature Change
Kansas could experience a winter increase in average temperatures of 5 degrees F and a
summer time increase of approximately 10
degrees F.
Source: IPCC
Precipitation Change
a)
b)c)
Why it matters to Kansas… positive effects with carbon
mitigation
Wind Energy Projects As of Dec 31, 2006
WIND PROJECT (County) DEVELOPER UTILITY SIZE YEAR_______
Jeffery Energy Center (Pottawatomie Co.) Westar Westar 1.5 MW 1999
Gray County Wind Farm (Gray Co.) FPL Energy Aqula 112.2 MW 2001
Elk River Wind Facility (Butler Co.) PPM Energy Empire 150 MW 2005
Spearville Wind Energy Facility (Ford Co.) enXco KCP&L 100.4 MW 2006
TOTAL INSTALLED AT END OF 2007 364.1 MW
Smoky Hills Wind Farm (Lincoln Co.) Tradewind Sunflower 50.4 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)
KC BPU 25 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)
Midwest 25.2 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)
Meridian Wind Farm (Cloud Co.) Horizon Empire 105 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)
Westar 96 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)
Flat Ridge Wind Farm (Wichita Co.) BP Alternative Energy Westar 100 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)
Central Plains Wind Farm (Barber Co.) RES America Dev, Inc Westar 99 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)
TOTAL INSTALLED AT END OF 2008 864.7 MW
KCP&L Announcement (3/20/07) RFP was due 6/15/07 KCP&L 300 MW 300 MW by 2012
Kansas Wind Projects – In operation and announced
Updated by KCC Energy Programs (Jan 2008)
Economic Impacts to Kansasfrom 7158 MW of new wind development by 2030
Direct Impacts
Payments to Landowners: • $20.8 million/year Local Property Tax Revenue:• $19 million/yearConstruction Phase:• 11,133 new construction jobs• $1.35B to local economiesOperational Phase:• 1805 new long-term jobs• $152M/yr to local economies
Indirect Impacts
Construction Phase:• 5,000 new jobs• $424M to local economiesOperational Phase:• 438 local jobs• $43 M/yr to local economies
Induced Impacts
Construction Phase:• 6,223 new jobs• $559 M to local economiesOperational Phase:• 850 local jobs• $76 M/yr to local economies
Wind energy’s economic “ripple effect”
Construction Phase = 1-2 yearsOperational Phase = 20+ years
Totals (construction + 20 yrs)Total economic benefit to Kansas = $7.8 billionNew local jobs during construction = over 23,000New long-term jobs for Kansans = over 3,000
Source: NREL – Wind Powering America
Thank YouLieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson