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an ISEA idea...2,000 miles to offshore renewable energy
M. Klepinger, October 2011
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What’s the Big Idea?
GL community should find 2,000 square miles (2%) to be used for offshore energy
To do this, we should create
~ Inland Seas Energy Compact
OR
~ Inland Seas Energy Authority (ISEA)
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Why So Few Prospects?
• Wind resources classified as “excellent” to “superb” by the U.S. Department of Energy
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Questions From All Quarters About Great Lakes Wind
Governance questions
Environmental questions
Engineering questions
Price and profitability questions
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What is the ISEA Idea?
• Create a new authority for offshore energy management, policy and planning
• Create a development corporation similar to the St Lawrence Seaway (but with triple bottom line)
• Convene leaders to identify which areas need preservation & which areas are best for energy
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Why?
• Creates certainty - a more stable 20-year policy environment - and will focus public debate
• Improves our position, gives us a brand, as we seek international investment in clean energy
• Provides space for the scale of the industry (enough to make billion$ investment worthwhile)
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Functions of Energy Authority
• Sets 5-yr, 10-yr, 20-yr production goals• Prioritizes research, detailed field investigations• Prepares guidelines for site assessment,
construction, operations, decommissioning• Provides good public venue for federal agencies
(in what is primarily a state leasing decision)
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Functions of Energy Authority
• Partners with states to market sites• Considers state nominations of the most
favorable wind resource areas (WRAs)• Issues bonds and distributes revenues• Could sell assets after 20 to 25 years
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How?
How do we define “most favorable” areas for offshore wind energy?
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Michigan’s Approach
• Governor’s Offshore Wind Council 2009• GLOW identified 24 criteria for policy-making• Used GIS mapping to find the “best” & “worst”• Drafted legislation for how to lease the state’s
“Most Favorable” five hundred square miles
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Most Favorable Wind Resource Areas (Michigan WRAs)
SOURCE: Institute for Fisheries Research, UM/MDNR, GLOW Final Report, October 2010.
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Sanilac County WRA
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Sanilac County WRA
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GLOW Council’s Criteria
• Aids to navigation• Buoyed navigation channels• Coastal airports• Military operation areas• Submerged transmission lines• Habitat/biological (5 criteria)• Disposal sites • Harbors/marinas• Large river mouths
• Shoreline (6-mile viewshed)• Shoreline (3-mile productivity) • National park lakeshores• State parks and wilderness • Shipwrecks • State bottomland preserves • Underwater archeological sites • Commercial fishing areas • International and state
boundaries • Shipping lanes
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In a Nutshell
• Great Lakes community needs an offshore energy management authority
• Similar to the St Lawrence Seaway – but with a triple bottom line mandate
• Regional policymakers need some quality time to decide on the “best” and “worst” places to take advantage of our world-class winds
• WINGSPREAD has offered to host a group of leaders when we’re ready