Moving Product to Market
Todd Haynes
Boise State University
Governor’s ISEA Exec Order
WHEREAS, the development of
renewable energy sources … would be
beneficial to farmers and rural
communities by establishing additional
markets … and creating new job
opportunities
Source: http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/execorders/eo09/eo_2009_05.html, accessed 9/21/10
Idaho’s wind resource is good
We lack adequate markets
Idaho’s electric market is small:
• 24 TWh in 20081
Idaho’s potential wind generation is large:
• estimates vary from 42 – 70 TWh
To fully benefit Idaho’s farmers & rural
communities, we must tap other markets
1 – http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html, accessed 9/21/2010
Potential Supply Wind Only
Demand
1 – http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html, accessed 9/21/2010
2 – IOER prospective wind project map, April 2008, assuming 30%
capacity factor
3– Wind Powering America estimate of Idaho wind potential at 80-m
hub height (Feb 4, 2010)
4– ISEA Wind Task Force report, p 24, assuming 30% capacity factor
http://www.energy.idaho.gov/energyalliance/d/wind_packet.pdf
Potential Supply Wind Only
Demand
1 – estimate based on Idaho Power’s all-time peak (3214 MW)
and discussions with IPUC
2 – Idaho Office of Energy Resources 2008 map of potential
projects
3 – Wind Powering America estimate of Idaho wind potential at
80-m hub height (Feb 4, 2010)
4 – ISEA Wind Task Force report, page 24
http://www.energy.idaho.gov/energyalliance/d/wind_packet.pdf
RPS markets pay more per kWh Where are the markets?
Source: http://www.dsireusa.org/summarymaps/index.cfm?ee=1&RE=1, accessed 9/21/10
How can we access out of state
markets?
Farm-to-market model:
• Interstate highways provide a means of
moving Ag products to markets.
• For electric markets, transmission grid is
analogous to roads.
What can we do?
• Identify & support transmission project(s)
already in planning stages
• Ensure Idaho projects (wind, solar,
geothermal) access to transmission lines?
• Invest in incremental capacity upgrades;
purchase a bank of capacity on those lines?
• Build feeder lines to larger lines?
Proposed Transmission
Source: McBride, Myers, Jeffers, Plum, Turk & Zirker,
The Cost of Not Building Transmission, July 2008, p. 16
Southwest Intertie Project
About SWIP:
•Under development by
Great Basin Transmission,
LLC
•500 kV AC line
•500+ miles, from Jerome
County to Las Vegas Area
http://www.swipos.com/
Southern Idaho Wind
Midpoint
Substation