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Assessing the Potential for Renewable Energy Development on DOE Legacy Management Lands Assessing the Potential for Renewable Energy Development on DOE Legacy Management Lands Office of Legacy Management Alaska Puerto Rico DOE/GO-102008-2435 February 2008 Assessing the Potential for Renewable Energy Development on DOE Legacy Management Lands Authors: Doug Dahle, Dennis Elliott, Donna Heimiller, Mark Mehos, Robi Robichaud, Marc Schwartz, Byron Stafford, and Andy Walker Published by National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 NREL is a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Operated by the Midwest Research Institute • Battelle DOE/GO-102008-2435 February 2008 NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. 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Acknowledgments The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are grateful to DOE’s Legacy Management (LM) Letitia (Tish) O’Conor for her vision and commitment in developing a partnership with NREL to examine the potential for renewable power development on current and near future LM lands. DOE and NREL are also grateful for the diligence in providing very constructive draft report comments provided LM’s Project Manager Tracy Plessinger and her team. Primary Authors The NREL team that prepared this report include Doug Dahle, project lead and Andy Walker (Strategic Energy Analysis & Applications Center, Energy Management and Federal Markets Group – FEMP Program); Donna Heimiller (Electric Systems Center (GIS Team Leader) Distributed Energy Resource Center); Mark Mehos (Building and Thermal Systems Center); Byron Stafford, National Center for Photovoltaics; Robi Robichaud, Dennis Elliott, and Marc Schwartz of the National Wind Technology Center. NREL Contributors to Report The authors wish to thank the following NREL staff for their time and contributions to this collaborative report: • Program Support Office – Grace Griego, Raymond David, and Jennifer Josey • Information Services, Product Production Group – Kathy Rose • Strategic Energy Analysis & Applications Center – Judy Powers • External Affairs/Public Relations Team – David Glickson Voluntary Participants NREL thanks voluntary participants for their time and commitment in a June 18, 2007 meeting to assess industry interest in Solar and Wind Power development on DOE LM Lands: • DOE LM, Office of Site Operations o Robert Baney, Ray Plieness, Tracy Plessinger, Steve Schiesswoh, Joe Desomeau, Christopher Clayton, Scott Surovchak, and Bill Montana • DOE LM Contractor, SM Stoller Corp. o Sandy Beranich, Clay Carpenter, Yvonne Deyo, Carl Jacobson, Dick Johnson, Michael Widdop • DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy o Brian Connor • Bureau of Land Management o Walt George iii • Environmental Protection Agency o Joan Fisk, Shahid Mahmud • Solar Industry o Abengoa, Solucar Power, Inc, Hank Price o Bright Source Energy, Inc., Doug Divine o Irradiance, Inc., Edward Kern o SkyFuel, Inc., Randy Gee o Solar Millennium, LLC, Jim Augustin o United Technologies, Corp., Dale Rogers • Wind Industry o Distributed Generation Systems, Inc., Dale Osborn o enXco Inc., Tom Weis iv Table of Contents Acknowledgments.................................................................................................................... iii 1.0 Executive Summary.......................................................................................................1 2.0 Objective........................................................................................................................1 3.0 Scope ..............................................................................................................................2 4.0 Background....................................................................................................................2 5.0 Descriptions of Renewable Energy Technologies .........................................................4 5.1 Concentrating Solar Power Technologies..................................................................4 5.2 Photovoltaic Technologies for Power Applications ................................................10 5.3 Wind Power Technologies.......................................................................................19 6.0 Approach to Assessing Renewable Energy Potential ..................................................23 6.1 TASK 1—Gather Available Information on DOE lands, and Solar and Wind Renewable Energy Resources..................................................................................24 6.2 TASK 2—Develop Appropriate Screens for GIS Analysis.....................................25 6.3 TASK 3—Process Data Identifying DOE LM Sites with Potential for Renewable Energy Development.............................................................................28 6.4 Summary of DOE LM site renewable energy GIS screening..................................29 7.0 Analysis of CSP and Wind Sample Top Pick Sites .....................................................30 7.1 CSP Estimation for Two Legacy Management Sites...............................................30 7.2 Wind Power Estimation for Two Legacy Management Sites..................................32 8.0 Example of Potential to Utilize Renewable Energy for Site Operations.....................34 9.0 DOE Legacy Management Compliance Issues............................................................34 9.1 NEPA Compliance...................................................................................................34 9.2 Health and Safety Requirements..............................................................................35 9.3 Site Institutional Controls ........................................................................................35 10.0 Solar and Wind Meeting to Assess Industry Development Interest ............................35 10.1 CSP Industry............................................................................................................36 10.2 Wind Industry ..........................................................................................................36 10.3 DOE LM ..................................................................................................................36 10.4 BLM.........................................................................................................................37 10.5 Open Discussion Points ...........................................................................................37 10.6 Wrap-up/Actions......................................................................................................37 11.0 Recommendations........................................................................................................37 Appendices ............................................................................................................................38 Appendix A: Renewable Resource and DOE LM Site GIS Maps ..........................................39 Appendix B: Detailed Description and Data Sets for GIS Screening ....................................41 Appendix C: Analysis Results – Prioritized List of DOE LM Sites for Solar and Wind........43 Appendix D: Federal and State Policies and Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy.....59 Appendix E: Wind and Solar Power Development on DOE Legacy Management Lands Meeting, June 18, 2007....................................................................................106 Appendix F: Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic (PV) Applications for Site Operations at Tuba City, Arizona...........................................................................................145 v Appendix G:.........................................................................................References 151 Appendix H: DOE LM/BLM/NREL Contacts......................................................................152 Appendix I: Acronyms and Definitions ...............................................................................153 vi 1.0 Executive Summary This report represents an initial activity for the Department of Energy’s
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