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The major GHG (greenhouse gases) are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. The 2007 electric consumption was 3800 TWH/year with a reference point of New York City at 89 TWH/year with a 30% growth by 2030. He showed the updated EPRI prism analysis from last year's presentation. Emission reduction will be expensive with many solutions including more efficiency, more renewable, smart distribution grids, energy storage, advanced light water reactors, carbon capture and storage (CCS). Much more R & D dollars needed. Buildina the Sustainable Communities in the Future Robert Daigle, a land developer in Lafayette, LA talked about his development, where one can live, shop and work in the development. Kitty Piecy the Mayor of Eugene, OR, discussed what her community is doing such as electric mass transit, all city building silver lead certified and solar energy programs. Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense Fund talked about climate change. Problem is to solve global warming issues at affordable costs. America's ingenuity and creativity is paramount. Ideas such as geothermal in Alaska, solar energy with use of silica filter point, ethanol not from corn but from plant waste, cellulous, sugar, starch used as fuel by alternative DNA. Electric transmission infrastructure needs to be enhanced. Improve our clean coal technologies with sulfur and CO2 removal. USA is still the largest CO2 imitator but China becoming a problem. If USA shows leadership in this issue, China will follow. Burning rain forests causes 20% GHG emissions L -W bill (cap and trade federal initiative) will cost USA 1% of its economy. Krupp is in favor of performance standards to reduce emissions and let industry determine how to do it. Wind Generation in Texas Three presenters talked about wind energy in Texas. Wind resource is far away from load centers. Issues are: 1) Get power to market. Transmission system must be expanded. 20% wind energy resource is achievable. 2) Wind is intermittent, generation reserve requirements must be increased as % wind increase (Mapp requirement is 15% reserve with 5% always spinning). 3) It is an uncontrolled resource and only provides energy and not capacity. 4) Better wind forecasting is a must. 5) RTO makes dealing with wind energy more difficult and gaming the system more prevalent. Risk management becoming more important. Are Your Energy Efficiency Programs As Good As You Think by Carol Mulholland Utilities should continually evaluate the energy efficiency programs. Evaluate how programs are presented and marketed to the public, how public accepts and uses programs and are the programs achieving the desired goals. Technology and products have a life span and is it time to change. Evaluate market transformation such as current technology, price, availability, warranties, education, poor installation and type of technical support.