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Of course, other Democrats have been playing their parts all along.
NV Status of Energy Report
In 2016 BLM gave approval to Anschutz Corp.’s $3 billion TransWest Express Project, which spans more than 730 miles from Wyoming to southern Nevada. The project was among seven the Obama administration in 2011 selected for fast-tracking with help from a Rapid Response Transmission Team. The TransWest Express Project will provide the transmission infrastructure and 3,000 MW of capacity and deliver approximately 20,000 GWh/yr of electric energy generated in Wyoming to the Desert Southwest region in Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California, enabling more efficient renewable integration across the West. The project has been under development since 2005 and is slated to be completed by 2019.
The Harry Allen - Eldorado 500 kV Transmission Line is a 60-mile extension of the One Nevada Line that will connect Nevada’s transmission system with the California power grid. This electric gateway will accelerate the integration and exportation of Nevada’s renewable energy resources. In early 2016, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) selected LS Power to finance, own, construct, and maintain the Harry Allen - Eldorado Line based on cost, experience, and ability to meet a May 2020 in-service date. The transmission line will run along the eastern edge of Las Vegas.
Nevada regulators authorize DesertLink to build 500-kV project, subject to certain compliance items
NV Status of Energy Report: Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM)
NV Energy successfully began operating in the EIM on December 1, 2015. NV Energy’s participation was estimated to save Nevada ratepayers an estimated $6 to $10 million per year by enhancing the ability to analyze supply and demand by dispatching the lowest cost resource to meet energy needs every five minutes, and integrating more renewable resources, and results from the first year of participation are in line with these projections. According to the California ISO, NV Energy’s participation improved transmission access throughout Nevada and exportation opportunities to other states.
The western EIM currently serves consumers in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. A recent report analyzing the benefits of the EIM, participants saved nearly $115 million from November 2014 through September 2016. The EIM allows CAISO operators using advanced software to draw on least-cost power to serve consumer demand. Additional benefits are produced by more efficiently using renewable energy, including excess energy, across a wide geographic region. EIM also reduces costly energy reserves utilities are required to secure to ensure reliability.
Another Resource
State Policy Opportunity Tracker
The Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), built the State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) for Clean Energy to serve as a hub of information on both existing state clean energy policies and, uniquely, future policy opportunities.
SPOT synthesizes existing information related to 37 clean energy policies at the state level and documents whether a given state policy exists and where it stands related to 3 – 6 policy components.
This resource is not a state scorecard. It is a planning tool for states as they develop their clean energy policy roadmaps. In line with this goal, each policy has a downloadable 2-page policy brief, source information, and links to organizations that specialize in each policy area. The overall value of this hub is to inform decision-making processes by providing policymakers, regulators, and interested stakeholders a clear snapshot of existing state policies as well as opportunities for future policy adoption.
In particular, I used their Nevada - State Energy / Climate Plan page, which links to the NV Status of Energy Report linked above.
Fun Fact
The Kentucky Coal Museum now runs on solar.
So do several coal mines around the world, in places well off the grid.
No Comment Until Next Week
Aldous J Pennyfarthing writes—Donald Trump says he plans to read a book on the environment (spoiler alert: it's about him)
The book appears to be Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero (September 13, 2016) by Edward Russo
Gizmodo: Trump Has a Book Written By a Trump Advisor About How Trump Loves the Environment, Actually
Vox: Trump’s climate change reading material is beyond parody
Good news: Trump plans to read a book about environmentalism. Bad news: the actual book.
I have another Diary draft for next week on Trump vs. the environment, so that goes in. Thanks, Aldous & MB.
Note
Now that I am doing this five days a week, I am going to have room for individual cities, states, and countries fairly regularly. Scotland comes later this week. Let me know if you have favorites.
I have gotten through the backlog of topics from when this was Fridays only, and I am looking around for more. Not a problem, of course.