Challenges, Issues, and Future Direction of the SAAC Michael Schilmoeller Thursday, December 2, 2010 SAAC

Possible Topics New risk metric(s): per kWh cost and risk metric Use and abuse of the efficient frontier Minimum loading and start-up cost representation Loss of load and expected unserved energy metrics Transmission representation The nature of the risky futures Modeling carbon penalties, cap and trade, emission trading credits, and all that

Possible Topics More on resource representations (hydrogeneration, conservation, wind, etc.) Foresight assumptions and decision criteria Economics as the basis for resource selection: what does it capture, what does it miss? Validation and the development of futures Conservation performance uncertainty

Possible Topics Computer applications for preparing data, recording simulation details, and analyzing results Representation of decision uncertainty (construction cost uncertainty, construction phases, retirements) Use of decision uncertainty representation to value modularity, capital intensiveness, and lead time for projects

Committee Concerns, questions, and interests: a roundtable Next steps, next meetings Volunteers for presentations

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