Working Group Recommendation
Individual Statements from Working Group Members
- 2/1/2024 AE Resource Planning Additional Comments of Randy Chapman
- 2/1/2024 AE Resource Planning Additional Comments of Mick Long
- 2/1/2024 AE Resource Planning Additional Comments of Jim Stanway
General Info
- Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2030/2035 (current plan)
- Austin Energy website on update to Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan
- Austin Electric Utility Commission website
- 9/11/2023 AE staff presentation – Resource Generation Plan Overview
- 2023-11-13 Austin Energy – Resource Plan Modeling Results
- 12/4/2023 AE Memo from COO for EUC Resource Planning WG
- 1/10/2024 Austin Energy – Presentation of Working Group Portfolio Modeling
Austin Energy Responses to Information Requests
- 9/1/2023 AE Response to Resource Planning questions submitted June 30
- 9/12/2023 Austin Energy Response on Progress on Goals in Existing Resource Plan
- 9/12/2023 Austin Energy – Renewable Energy Output and Load 2020 – 2023 spreadsheet
- 9/22/2023 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning WG Questions – batch 1
- 10/10/2023 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning WG Questions – batch 2
- 10/18/2023 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning WG Questions – batch 3
- 11/14/2023 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning Working Group Questions – Batch 4
- 12/01/2023 EUC Resource Planning Working Group – Questions and Data Requests – Batch 5
- 12/05/2023 EUC Resource Planning WG – Questions and Data Requests – Batch 6
- 1/17/2024 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning WG Questions – batch 7
- 1/22/2024 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning Working Group Questions – Batch 8
- 1/26/2024 Austin Energy Response to EUC Resource Planning WG Questions – batch 9
Climate Change
- 11/15/2023 Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports
- NOAA – Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
- 11/14/2023 No place in the US is safe from the climate crisis, but a new report shows where it’s most severe
Transmission
- 7/10/2023 AE staff & consultant Transmission Study slides
- 7/10/2023 AE staff & consultant Transmission Study presentation (Item 8)
- EIA Energy Infrastructure and Resources map
- 9/26/2023 Resource Planning WG Transmission Plan Review
Demand-Side Resources (Efficiency, Demand Response, EVs, Local Solar)
- 10/24/2023 Resource Planning WG Demand Side Resources Presentation – Cyrus Reed and Alison Silverstein
- 10/10/2020 Resource Planning WG Presentation on EVs and DERs – Dave Tuttle
- 2023-11-07 Resource Planning WG Local Solar Presentation – Kaiba White and Jim Sanway
Renewable Energy
Solar Energy
- The 5 Cs of Agrivoltaic Success Factors in the United States: Lessons From the InSPIRE Research Study
- Innovative Solar Practices Integrated with Rural Economies and Ecosystems (InSPIRE)
Geothermal Energy
- 1/8/2023 Ken Wisian, Bureau of Economic Geology – Geothermal Power Overview
- 10/24/2023 Barry Smitherman – SMU Geothermal Laboratory factsheet
Energy Storage
- Texas adds record amount of battery storage to grid — and more is on the way
- 11/2023 Form Energy – Long Duration Energy Storage Overview
- 8/2023 Form Energy – Recommended Approaches for Modeling Utility Electric Grids with Multi-Day Energy Storage
- ESS Inc. medium-long-duration battery storage video
- DOE Long Duration Energy Storage: Report and Webinar
Fayette Coal Plant
- 3/22/2022 Austin Resource Management Commission Recommendations on Retirement of Austin Energy’s Portion of the Fayette Power Project
- 9/26/2023 Resource Planning WG Fayette Presentation
Hydrogen
- 1/22/2024 Abbe Ramanan (Clean Energy Group) – Green Hydrogen Costs, Availability and Risks
- 8/16/2023 EDF – Known Unknown: Current hydrogen leak estimates vary by up to 100-fold. We need to know more before betting the farm
- Clean Energy Group – Hydrogen Areas of Concern
- 4/3/2023 Union of Concerned Scientists – Without Sufficient Guardrails, the Hydrogen Tax Credit Could Increase Emissions
- Pipeline Safety Trust – Hydrogen Pipeline Safety
- DOE Clean Hydrogen Report and Webinar
Natural Gas
Nuclear
ERCOT & PUC
Additional Topics
- DOE Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Reports
- DOE Carbon Management: Report and Webinar
- DOE Virtual Power Plants: Report
- DOE Industrial Decarbonization Preliminary Perspectives: Webinar
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