MGA Joint Advisory Group Meeting and Meetings of Individual Advisory Groups: MGA Platform

MGA Joint Advisory Group Meeting and Meetings of Individual Advisory Groups: MGA Platform & Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Advisory Groups

**This meeting is hosted in partnership with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

January 14-15, 2009 Indiana University-Purdue University Campus Center 420 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202

MEETING AGENDA

Meeting Objectives 1. Acquaint participants from different advisory groups with each other and their work. 2. Brief all advisory groups on the broad recommendations, analysis and modeling results of each advisory group. 3. Results from the system dynamics modeling scenarios: Do proposed combinations of priority policies (across MGA advisory groups) achieve the GHG and other energy targets in the MGA Platform & Accord? 4. Present and seek input from all advisory groups on proposed format and outline of MGA Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Roadmap to be developed in advance of September 2009 governors and premiers’ summit. 5. Discuss and suggest strategies and next steps for addressing cross-cutting issues whose scope extends beyond more than one advisory group. 6. Provide the opportunity for each advisory group to meet separately to respond to broader plenary and small group input received from the other advisory groups, agree on implementation steps for 2009, and to conduct ongoing business as needed. Tuesday, January 13 th

5-7:00 pm Packet Pickup, University Place hotel lobby

Wednesday, January 14 th (all times Eastern)

7:00 am Packet pickup and Breakfast Buffet (room 450C) (building opens at 7am)

8:00 am Welcome (room 450B)

-Jesse Heier, Midwestern Governors Association

-Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Professor and Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

-David Pippen, Policy Advisor for Governor Daniels (invited) 8:15 am Review of Meeting Agenda and Ground Rules -Brad Crabtree, Great Plains Institute

8:30 am Presentation of recommendations and analyses from each advisory group (15 minutes each), starting with Energy Efficiency Advisory Group (EEAG)

Desired Outcome: Acquaint participants from different advisory groups with each other and their work.

9:00 am Bioeconomy and Transportation Advisory Group (BTAG)

9:30 am Renewable Electricity and Advanced Coal with Carbon Capture and Storage (REACCCS)

10:00 am Break

10:30 am Presentation on status of Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Advisory Group (the “Accord”): including base case from ICF

11:00 am Presentation of system dynamics model, followed by Q&A

Desired Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate what the model can and can’t do 2. Answer basic questions about assumptions and data used in the model 3. Show representative scenario(s) that meet the governors’ goals

12:00 pm Lunch (room 450C)

1:00 pm Presentation of draft MGA Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Roadmap outline (room 450B)

Desired Outcome(s): Participants understand what is being proposed to go in the Roadmap 1:20 pm Move to small break out rooms

1:30 pm Breakout sessions. Four groups of 30 people each, selected for diversity across the four advisory groups

Group 1: room 307 Group 2: room 405 Group 3: room 406 (Board Room) Group 4: room 409 Agenda for the breakouts:

Part A: General Feedback (45 minutes)

1. Invite participants to offer additional input on what they would like to see in the final MGA Energy Roadmap, reflecting on the presentation they have just heard (Roadmap to be released in September 2009). 2. Ask participants to offer their impression of the overall process and work products to date (based on their experience in their advisory groups and the PowerPoints they just heard in the morning). Go person by person, but anyone is free to “pass” if they have nothing to add. Staff will use this information to improve the process and products from here on out.

Part B: More In-depth discussion and use of system dynamics model (45 minutes) 1. Invite more in-depth Q&A about the model itself and how it works (10 min.) 2. Recap of “best shot” scenario prepared by modeling staff, including a review of key assumptions made in order to achieve governors’ targets. (“best shot” scenario would attempt to draw on the work of all Advisory Groups in a balanced portfolio that achieves the governors’ targets). (5 minutes with a handout) 3. Identify any questions, concerns, or “what ifs?” that participants see in the “best shot” scenario and refine the “best shot” scenario by ADDing, DROPing, or AMENDing policies that are consistent with the governors’ Platform and individual Advisory Groups. (30 minutes) a. Invite participants to propose modifications to policies or assumptions; b. Then run the model to see if it achieves the governors’ goals with those changes. (“alternative recommendation” could mean strengthening recommendations already included as an assumption in the model). c. Modeling staff save all “scenario runs” and note which are generally acceptable to the group and which are not. d. WHAT NEXT: New Modeling Advisory Group will take the input from these various break-out groups to refine the model. (This Modeling Advisory Group will have representatives from each of the existing Advisory Groups and will take direction from them). e. Modeling Advisory Group will, by this Summer, present final potential scenarios to each of the other Advisory Groups. Desired Outcomes: 1. Get more in-depth feedback on what stakeholders would like to see in the final Roadmap (based on presentation of the Outline earlier in the day) 2. Gather participants general impressions of, and suggestions for, the overall process and work products to date (i.e., the policy options documents and the model). 3. Get feedback on the model to identify areas for improvement. 4. Have participants use the model to begin defining an optimal mix of Platform policies to recommend to governors and premiers via the Roadmap (i.e., which policy mix(es) appear to meet the Platform’s targets).

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Breakout sessions to address cross-cutting issues among advisory groups Group 1: room 307 Group 2: room 405 Group 3: room 406 (Board Room) Group 4: room 409 Group 5: room 305 Group 6: room 308 Group 7: room 309 Group 8: room 310 Group 9: room 148

Cross-cutting issues include:

1. Low-carbon fuel standard 2. Plug-in hybrids and their implications across the energy system 3. Federal issues 4. Coal + biomass synergies and implications 5. Work force development (a.k.a. new MGA Chair’s agenda on “Green Jobs”) 6. Technology commercialization and investment at the level needed to achieve governors’ targets (including what to do with the financial value represented by carbon allowances that are allocated or auctioned)

Desired Outcomes:  Identify the implications of each cross-cutting issue for the MGA Platform and Midwestern GHG Reduction Accord.

 Determine whether, and how, each cross-cutting issue should be dealt with in the MGA process (e.g., which of the four advisory groups should take the lead and include it in their recommendations?)  Identify any next steps for each cross-cutting issue (Who? What? and By when?)

5:00 pm Adjourn

5:15 pm Reception (4th Floor Pre-Function Lounge)

Thursday, January 15 th

See individual advisory group day 2 agendas for details

7:00 am Breakfast Buffet (room 450C) (building opens at 7am)

8:00 am Individual advisory groups convene with introductions and review of meeting agenda and materials

room 309 Bioeconomy and Transportation room 405 Energy Efficiency room 450A Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord room 450B Renewable Electricity Advanced Coal with Carbon Capture

12:00 pm Advisory groups reconvene for lunch (room 450C)

1:00 pm Return to advisory group meeting

2:00 pm Adjourn