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Action Committee for Energy Page 1 November 17, 2004 ----------------------------- MEETING OF THE ACTION COMMITTEE FOR ENERGY HELD AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2004 (I tems are numbered as they were presented) Members Present: Mark Kennedy, Bill Poppert (via cell phone), E. B. Stoutenburg, Bryan Adams, Arne Hendrickson, Gary Connett, Ron Bratlie, Bill St. Germaine, Susie Overholser, and Vance Zehringer Staff Present: Heidi Steinmetz, Stephen Rohlf and Rebecca Haug 1. Consider November 17, 2004 ACE Agenda The November 17, 2004 ACE Agenda was approved with the addition of an announcement by Ron Bratlie. 2. Consider September 15, 2004 ACE Minutes Minutes were approved as submitted with the change in number 4 on the spelling for the Weidt Group. The minutes show the spelling as White rather than Weidt. 3. Discuss Solicitation of Funding CenterPoint Energy donated $1,500 to Energy City. 4. Report on Energy Alley Bill Poppert (via cell phone) updated the Committee about the upcoming Research Group event to be held on November 18 at the University of Minnesota. Heidi informed the Committee that the Economic Development Department asked their Incubator consultant to attend. Bill also informed the Committee that there were approximately 200 people at the CIP workshop. He also informed the Committee that the Weidt Group is not going to be as involved with Energy House III as they thought. Also, Energy House III is on the Energy Alley Board meeting agenda in January. 7. Discuss Energy House III The Energy House III group is considering 2 lots in the Nordic Hills development off of County Road 1 to be passive solar. The builder of the house will be Northwoods Builders. Northwoods Builders are developing some building designs for the group to choose from. The next meeting will be December 1 at 1:00 p.m. at the Environmental Learning Center. The opportunity to get technology into the house is now and if anyone has ideas they should contact Sharon Kampa. CenterPoint Energy helped with the other Energy Houses. Arne will talk with the techy people at Center Point. It is proposed that the house will be open for three years. ECONAR will be donating a ground source heat pump. The City will look at what they can do to help. The house should utilize green products and energy efficiency. Some CIP money may be available for this project. 9. Discuss CIP Conference Vance attended the CIP Conference and gave two presentations. One presentation was on Energy City and the other was on the benefits municipal utilities garnered from CIP money. The CIP workgroup is looking into having another conference in 2005. The group is working on a report on the state of CIP. It is being written by Utilities, advocacy groups, and the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber wants people to be able to opt out of CIP if they are at a certain megawatt. It was decided that Vance should stay on the CIP Workgroup.