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Generating Resources Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda
August 21, 2008

Northwest Power and Conservation Council
851 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100

Meeting Minutes (90k Word)

10:00 AM Introductions, Announcements, & Review of Agenda (50k Word)
  • Approval of minutes from July 17 meeting
10:15 AM Approach to the Wind Power Assessment (1mb PowerPoint) (Jeff King)
11:00 AM Introductory Discussion (240k PowerPoint) of the Demand for and Supply of Ancillary Services (Maury Galbraith)
11:50 Break for Lunch - On Your Own
1:00 PM Proposed Wind Plant Capital Cost Assumptions (137k PowerPoint) (King)
1:40 PM Assessment of Thermal Resource Commitment Parameters (Galbraith)
  • How Used, Current Assumptions and Issues (900k PowerPoint)
  • Refining the Assumptions and Achieving Realistic Resource Dispatch
2:20 PM Fossil Fuel Price Forecast (1m PowerPoint) (King)
  • Discuss Proposed Revisions
2:50 PM Status of Ongoing Action Items
  • Operating and Maintenance Cost Assessment
  • Pumped Storage Workshop
3:00 PM Adjourn