Generating Resources Advisory Committee

9:30  AM

Welcome, Introductions

• Review today's agenda
• Review Dec 18 meeting minutes
  
• Reminder on role of GRAC - charter and updated membership
• Purpose of today's meeting topics and relation to draft Seventh Power Plan
• Next steps for GRAC

9:45  AM

Overview of Pumped Storage - Rick Miller (HDR, Inc.)

• Discussion of technology, trends
• Capital and O&M cost estimates
• Potential resource in the PNW

10:15 AM

Banks Lake North Dam Pump/Generation Plant - Lloyd Reed (GCPHA/Reed Consulting)

• Purpose of project, current status and major stakeholders
• Estimated cost, capacity, expected energy output
• Barriers to development
• Tentative timeline to operation

10:45 AM

J.D. Pool Pumped Storage Project - Brian Skeahan (Klickitat PUD JD Pool Project), Nate Sandvig (MWH)

• Purpose of project, current status and major stakeholders
• Estimated cost, capacity, expected energy output
• Barriers to development
• Tentative timeline to operation

11:15 AM

Value Stream of Pumped Storage - Miller, Skeahan, Sandvig

• Importance of capturing the full value stream of a project
• How has the role of pumped storage changed?
• What are the overall challenges pumped storage faces?
• Recommendations to overcome these challenges?

12:00 PM

LUNCH - on your own

1:00  PM

Overview of Small Modular Reactors - Christopher Colbert (NuScale Power), Jim Gaston (Energy Northwest)

• Discussion of technology, modular business model
• Technology development schedule, tentative plant timeline to operation
• Capital and O&M cost estimates
• Challenges to commercialization, barriers to development
• UAMPS demonstration project in Idaho
• Recent Washington study on SMRs
• Comparison between SMR and conventional nuclear

2:15 PM

Preliminary Resource Evaluation of Enhanced/Engineered Geothermal - Steve Simmons

• Overview of technology and role in PNW
• Feasibility of development in the PNW

2:50 PM

Discussion of Next GRAC Meetings 

3:00 PM

Adjourn