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California Renewable Portfolio Standard, quarterly report
September, 2008
by California Public Utilities Commission
This map shows the proposed changes to the Visual Resource Management classes for public lands located in Eastern San Diego County.
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Bird fatality study at Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA)
January 25, 2008
by Altamont Pass Avian Monitoring Team:
The current management goal for the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) is to significantly and substantially reduce the fatalities of birds resulting from collisions with the wind turbines and other turbine-related incidents. This is the first report on bird/bat mortality rates at the APWRA since the management plan was implemented. "The results of this study show an apparent continued trend of high bird fatalities, both raptors and non-raptors at APWRA. The number of annual fatalities does not appear to be decreasing despite implementation of specific conservations measures including the cross-over winter shutdown program, high risk turbine removal and blade-painting."
Boulevard Planning Group protest letter to Bureau of Land Management
January 3, 2008
by Donna Tisdale
The Boulevard Planning Group submitted this protest letter to the Bureau of Land Management in response to the Bureau's proposal to open 6,900 acres of public lands within the McCain Valley area for wind energy development.
Comments submitted to Santa Barbara County Energy Division, California, by the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) regarding the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the Lompac Wind Energy Project.
California ISO integration of renewable resources report (Draft)
August, 2007
by CA-ISO, GE Energy Consulting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, AWS Truewind
This report details transmission and operating issues and recommendations for integrating renewable resources on the CAISO Control Grid. The CAISO discusses the gross variations in electric production from wind energy due to the intermittent nature of the resource. During periods of highest demand, the winds drop off.
WECC Interconnection queue active requests -- Sep 2007
August, 2007
by Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Comments: Statewide Guidelines for Reducing Wildlife Impacts from Wind Energy Development (Docket No. 06-011-1)
June 18, 2007
by Dan Boone
Comments submitted to the California Energy Commission regarding proposed guidelines for conducting post-construction bird-bat mortality surveys at wind energy facilities. These comments were submitted by Dan Boone, a wildlife biologist with over 30 years professional experience.
California’s Greenhouse Gas Policies: Local Solutions to a Global Problem?
March, 2007
by James Bushnell, Carla Peterman, Catherine Wolfram
California is in the process of implementing a broad portfolio of policies and regulations
aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper summarizes the initiatives likely
to impact the electricity generating sector. We present calculations showing that there is
a substantial risk that two of the most prominent policies could simply result in a
reshuffling, on paper, of the electricity generating resources within the West that are
dedicated to serving California. This reshuffling is different from the conventional
leakage problem as it involves no physical changes to the way electricity is generated
across regulated and unregulated regions, but is instead driven by a contractual
reshuffling of who buys power from whom. The problem is similar to an ineffective
consumer boycott. The problem is still present but less severe if more Western states
adopt carbon limitations. We also show that some of the least market-based initiatives,
the renewable portfolio standards (RPS), are likely to have the biggest near-term impact
on the carbon-intensity of electricity generation in the West. Thus the scale of RPS
programs may be limiting the potential role of non-renewable options in reducing carbon
emissions from the electricity sector.