Date:       Tuesday, June 3rd

Time:       10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: West Salem Roth’s Hospitality Center - Santiam Room

                 425 Glen Creek Rd NW
                 Salem, OR 97304

                                  

Meeting Materials:

Date:       Tuesday, April 29th

Time:       1:00 - 4:00 PM
Location:  Roth's Conference Center in West Salem      
                                  

Meeting Materials:

• Meeting Minutes
• Agenda
• REWG Charter (updated April 2008)
• Presentations
  • Oregon RPS - Kip Pheil
  • Corn Ethanol
  • Corn Ethanol - Michael Wang (Presented by Mark Kendall

Date:       Wednesday, September 26th
Time:       9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
                 Commission Room
                 3406 Cherry Ave NE
                 Salem

Meeting Materials:

• Agenda
• REAP Tasks - Status as of July 2007
• Meeting Audio File

 
Date:         Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Time:         1 - 4 PM
Location:   Oregon State Library, Rooms 102 & 103
                  Salem, OR
 

Meeting Materials:

• Agenda 
• Meeting Audio File
• Letter to the REWG from Chair Mike McArtthur
• Tasks Delegated to REWG in the Renewable Energy Action Plan (updated July 07)
• Obstacles to Renewable Energy in Oregon
  
• REWG Biomass Key Points
  
• Implementation of the Renewable Portfolio Standard (SB 838) for Portland General Electric, Pacific Power and Idaho Power
  
• Lakeview Biomass Project Update - 7/17/2007
• South Central Oregon Sustainable Energy Progres Report

 
Date:         Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Time:         10 AM - 3 PM
Location:   Oregon State Library, Rooms 102 & 103
                   Salem, OR
 
Meeting Materials:

• Agenda
• Meeting Audio File
• List of Attendees
• Letters to Governor Kulongoski from the REWG
  • Forest Biomass Working Group (FBWG) Report: Key Federal & State Actions
  • Progress Report from the Renewable Energy Working Group
• Key State & Federal Actions in the Forest Biomass Working Group Report
• Oregon Renewable Energy Standard: Cost issues of new energy technologies.
  (PowerPoint presentation by Paul Woodin)
• Obstacles to Renewable Energy in Oregon
• Progress Report from the Renewable Energy Working Group (Draft)
  

Date:        Tuesday, February 6th
Time:        10 AM - 3 PM
Location:  Oregon State Library, Rooms 102 & 103
                  Salem, OR
 
Meeting Materials:
 

• Agenda
• Updated RPS "Status Report"
• Revised Draft of RPS Cost Cap Proposal
• REAP Task List
  
• List of Attendees
  
• Meeting Audio File

Date:        Friday, January 5th
Time:        12 PM - 4 PM
Location:  Oregon State Library, Rooms 102 & 103
                  Salem, OR
 
Meeting Materials:

• Agenda
• List of Attendees
• Meeting Audio File 
• Forest Biomass Working Group Report & Recommendations

Date:        Thursday, December 7
Time:        10 AM - 3 PM
Location:   Oregon State Library, Rooms 102 & 103
                   Salem, OR
 
Meeting Materials:

• Agenda
• Meeting Audio File
• Attendee List
• RPS Status Report (DRAFT)
• Legislative Concepts
  • Business Energy Tax Credit Changes (LC 562)
  • Residential Energy Tax Credit Changes (LC 563)
  • Biofuels Fuels Package (LC 565)

Date:        Wednesday, November 8
Time:        10 AM - 3 PM
Location:   Portland Building, Room C
                  1120 SW 5th Ave.
                  Portland, OR
                                    
Meeting Materials:

• Attendee List
• Meeting Audio File
• Presentations:
  • PacifiCorp - Preliminary “1400 MW” Renewable Energy Action Plan (Sept. 2006)
• RPS Topics/Questions for November Meeting
• Oregon RPS and Related Policy Legislative Package Outline
• Agenda
• Comments from Dr. Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, on Oregon RPS and Related Policy Legislative Package Outline (October 5 Version)

Date:         Thursday, October 12
Time:        10 AM - 3 PM
Location:   Rogue Brewery
                   Roguethonian Room
                   2320 OSU Drive
                   Newport, OR 97365
                                    
Meeting Materials:

• Meeting Audio File (approximately 60MB)
• Meeting Attendee L:ist
• Public Comment Summary
• PacificCorp's position on specific RPS design elements
• Agenda
• Map to the Meerting Location  
• Elements of each of the Legislative Concepts as sent to Legislative Counsel
• Bill language as sent to Legislative Counsel for the Biofuels, RETC, and BETC bills.
  
  • BIofuels
    
  • RETC
    
  • BETC
• RPS and Related Policy Legislative Package Outline
  
• Protected waterways in Oregon (NWPPC, Wild & Scenic Rivers Act)
• A compilation of ORS chapters with proposed modifications and strikeout language as submitted by OPUDA
  
• OPUDA Position on RPS

Date:         September 13
Time:        10am - 3pm
Location:   Embarq Center, Waucoma Room
                   902 Wasco
                   Hood River OR 97031
 
Meeting Materials:

• Meeting Audio File (31 MB)
• Attendees
• Agenda
• DRAFT_RPS_Outline
• An update from the "RPS Dialogue Group"
  
• OMEU/OPUDA RPS document
  

Date:     August 15, 2006
Time:    10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Where:  The Univesity of Oregon
               Erb Memorial Union, Fir Room
               1222 E. 13th Ave.
               Eugene

• Meeting Audio File
  
  
• Attendee List
  
• Potential Threshold Values for Oregon Utilities Based On Electric Load
  
• Draft of Potential RPS Language - Consumer Owned Utilities
  
  
• Portland General Electric Policy Position Regarding a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) For the State of Oregon
  
• Agenda
  
• Parking Map - U of O Erb Memorial Union

• Agenda
• Audio File 
• Attendees 
• Considerations regarding a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Framework for the State of Oregon
• Portland Biofuels Ordinance
  
• Oregon Renewable Energy Working Group Recommendation RE: Net Metering
• REWG’s Community Caucus Report
• Net Metering Fact Sheet
• Comments of Kyle L. Davis, PacifiCorp on Net Metering fact sheet
• MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company Renewable Energy Portfolio Legislative Mandates 
• RPS Dialogue Group Report to REWG

• Meeting Audio File
  
• Attendee List
  
• State RPS Policies: Experiences and Lessons Learned
  
• The Costs and Benefits of State RPS Policies: Cost-Impact Studies, Actual Costs, and Cost Containment
  
• Map
  
• Agenda
  
• Net Metering Information
• Wind Energy Trend Chart
• OMEU Background Infromation and Resolution Describing OMEU Principles for Consideration of an Oregon Renewable Portfolio Standard

• Audio File of Meeting (MP3, 2 hours,18MB)
  
• Attendee List
  
• Agenda
  
• Solar Policy Tasks:
  Recommendations for the Renewable Energy Working Group
  by the Oregon Solar Coalition
• Oregon Department of Energy Legislative Proposals for 2007
• Information Workshop on Renewable Energy Production Payments:
  Minutes, Discussion and Recommendations
• Renewable Energy Working Group Agenda Item:
  Principles Discussion
• Oregon Department of Energy Legislative Proposal: Biofuels Package

Meeting Information:
The following documents require either the Adobe Reader or Microsoft PowerPoint.
 
Minutes
 
Agenda

• Federal Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 (PURPA): Update March 2006
• Renewable Energy Working Group “Top 5” Priority Survey Results
• Tasks Delegated to REWG in the Renewable Energy Action Plan
• Summarized and condensed list of all “principles” submitted for REWG consideration (3/18/06)
• Renewable Energy Production Payments (PowerPoint)
  
• Elements of an RPS (PDF)
  

 

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Meeting Information:

Minutes
 
Map & Directions
 
Agenda
 

Presentations

• Overview of the Renewable Energy Action Plan (REAP)
• Oregon Biomass Resources
• Oregon Biofuel Development
• Geothermal Energy
• Wind Energy
• Solar Energy