New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee Docket No. 2006-01 Application of Lempster Wind, LLC For Certificate of Site and Facility Lempster Mountain Wind Power Project Lempster, New Hampshire August 28, 2006 New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee –Docket No. 2006-01 Application of Lempster Wind, LLC August 28, 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..................................................................................................................................6 LIST OF EXHIBITS.......................................................................................................................................... 16 APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF SITE AND FACILITY ............................................................... 17 (a) Applicant Information ................................................................................................................................. 17 (1) Name of Applicant ..................................................................................................................................... 17 (2) Mailing Address, Telephone, Fax and E-mail Contacts ............................................................................. 17 (3) Franchise Area.......................................................................................................................................... 18 (4) Name and Address of Parent Company, Association or Corporation, if Applicant is a Subsidiary ............ 18 (5) State of Incorporation and Address of Principal Place of Business and the Names of Principal Directors, Officers, and Stockholders .............................................................................................................................. 18 (6) If an Association, the Names and Residences of the Members of the Association....................................... 19 (7) The location or locations where applicant proposes to conduct business in New Hampshire..................... 19 (8) Whether applicant is the owner, lessee or other......................................................................................... 19 (9) A statement of assets and liabilities of the applicant and other relevant financial information.................. 19 (10) Identification of any requests for waivers from the information requirements of any state agency or department whether represented on the committee or not ............................................................................... 20 (11) Applicant's financial, technical and managerial capability for construction and operation of the proposed facility............................................................................................................................................................. 20 a. Technical Capability............................................................................................................................... 20 b. Managerial Capability ............................................................................................................................ 21 c. Financial Capability................................................................................................................................ 22 (b) Site information............................................................................................................................................ 23 (1) Location and address of site of proposed facility;...................................................................................... 23 (2) Travel directions to site ............................................................................................................................. 24 (3) Site acreage............................................................................................................................................... 24 (4) Location of residences, industrial buildings, and other structures and improvements in vicinity of site by description and on plan................................................................................................................................... 24 (5) Identification of wetlands and surface waters of the state at site ............................................................... 24 (6) Identification of natural and other resources at site .................................................................................. 24 (7) Statement concerning the proposed facility's compliance with municipal land use regulations.................. 25 (8) Statement that the proposed facility site was selected from among those sites included in the 5-year inventory of sites identified in the applicant's long-range plans or statement showing good cause why this prerequisite should be waived ......................................................................................................................... 25 Lempster Wind, LLC – 2006-01 - August 28, 2006 2 (9) Other application and permits to be included ............................................................................................ 25 a. State agencies having jurisdiction, under state or federal law, to regulate any aspect of the construction or operation of the proposed facility ............................................................................................................... 25 b. Information satisfying the application requirements of such agencies ..................................................... 25 c. Each agency's completed application forms ............................................................................................ 26 (c) Facility Information ..................................................................................................................................... 26 (1) Name of unit .............................................................................................................................................. 26 (2) Capacity .................................................................................................................................................... 26 (3) Type of unit................................................................................................................................................ 26 a. Fuel utilized ............................................................................................................................................ 26 b. Method of cooling condenser discharge .................................................................................................. 27 c. Whether the unit is proposed to serve base, intermediate or peaking loads.............................................. 27 d. Unit efficiency........................................................................................................................................ 27 e. Description of Specific Technology........................................................................................................ 28 f. Project design and turbine layout............................................................................................................. 29 g. Project interconnection ........................................................................................................................... 29 (4) Construction schedule ............................................................................................................................... 30 (5) Need for proposed generating unit to meet the present and future need for electricity............................... 30 a. Orderly development of the region.......................................................................................................... 30 1. Meeting the need for electricity.......................................................................................................... 30 2. Consistency with the State energy policy .......................................................................................... 31 3. Consistency with Economic Development and Regional Planning Goals ........................................... 34 b. – g. Aesthetics, Historic Sites, Air Quality, Water Quality, the Natural Environment, Public Health and Safety ......................................................................................................................................................... 35 h. System stability and reliability factors .................................................................................................... 35 i. Economic factors..................................................................................................................................... 36 (6) Available alternatives ................................................................................................................................ 36 (d) Transmission Line Information .................................................................................................................. 37 (e) Potential health and environmental effects and mitigation plans............................................................. 37 (1) Air and Climate Change ............................................................................................................................ 37 (2) Water......................................................................................................................................................... 39 a. Water Intake or Pollution Discharge .....................................................................................................