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Also here's an update on the energy crunch stateside
Governors urge Alaska pipeline construction
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With hydroelectricity at all time lows and power demand
growing, western governors Friday called for
construction of the proposed natural gas pipeline from
Alaska to the US, and an immediate assessment of gas
availability and transmission capacity to determine if
supplies will be adequate to meet this summer's peak.
Concluding a hastily called energy summit, the Western
Governors' Association also agreed to ask the federal
interagency task force headed up by US Vice-President
Dick Cheney to work with them to streamline regulations
allowing retired generation to be reactivated, increase
production from existing generation, and allow backup
generation to come on line.
The governors concluded the day's conference with a set
of resolutions for both the short-term energy crisis
and the long-term energy problems facing the region,
including:
-- Encourage long-term contracts to reduce dependence
on the spot electricity market in California, a step
taken Thursday with passage of a law signed by Gov.
Gray Davis.
-- Encourage non-California utilities and direct end
use customers to hedge power purchases against future
price spikes.
-- Urge utilities to adopt rate reforms that send more
accurate price signals to encourage consumers to shift
consumption of power to off-peak times.
-- Ask state public utility commissions to approve
demand-exchange tariffs to allow consumers to
voluntarily agree to reduce demand in exchange for
compensation.
-- Accelerate efficiency practices and investments in
state buildings and ask federal and local government to
do the same.
-- Ask for federal legislation establishing enforceable
system reliability rules and creation of regional state
and province advisory bodies.
-- Seek a centralized grid-wide database that tracks
demand, generation, and transmission facilities under
construction, in the permitting process, or under
consideration.
-- Support efforts to ensure information is available
on loads, transmission, and generation to maintain grid
reliability and adequacy.
For the longer term, the governors agreed to pursue
supply and demand policies that include the following:
-- Streamline permitting energy facilities, implement
research and development into clean coal technologies,
accelerate development and deployment of renewable
energy technologies, and review environmental policies
to ensure they are as efficient as possible.
-- Review and improve energy efficiency building codes
for western states, develop federal appliance
efficiency standards unique to western state climates,
and support federal and state tax incentives to
accelerate new energy efficient technologies.
Western governors Friday called for construction of the
natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the US, and an
immediate assessment of gas availability and
transmission capacity.
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