1. Fred Heutte, Chair Environmental Data Working Group May 3, 2016
EDWG Update
Fred Heutte, Chair Environmental Data Working Group
May 3, 2016
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
April 8 EDWG Meeting
Key Topics
Golden Eagle
Water Data Exchange
Environmental Data Sets review
Cultural Data Viewer and Survey
EDWG Outreach Plan – draft Fact Sheet
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle biology, behavior and range
Daly Edmunds, EDWG and Audubon Rockies
Brian Woodbridge, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Todd Katzner, US Geological Survey
Todd Lickfett, US Fish & Wildlife Service
special guest appearance:
Part II – EDWG July meeting Golden eagle interaction with transmission, avian protection plans – industry viewpoints
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4. Golden Eagle – “the WECC bird”
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5. Water Data Exchange (WaDE)
WaDE is a Western States Water Council project
Tony Willardson, EDWG and WSWC
Sara Larson, WaDE Program Manager
proposing joint WaDE/EDWG effort to exchange GIS data
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6. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
EDWG Data Viewer
CartoDB platform now publicly available -- give it a test drive:
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7. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Cultural Data Viewer
Finalizing development . . .
Same CartoDB platform
Going live May-June 2016
Karen de Dufour, deputy NV SHPO, providing assistance – SHPOs for WA, UT, CO, WY reviewing the Cultural Data Viewer
Review by SHPO national technical group – strong support
Will track usage with simple login process
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8. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
EDWG Outreach Plan
Identify target groups, their needs, trends and opportunities
Use opportunities to market EDWG resources and technology
Develop partnerships to better identify needs and ways to respond
Develop EDWG outreach mechanisms to reach more people in the target groups
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9. EDWG Fact Sheet - preparation
Comments still welcome this week -- draft available on today’s SPSG meeting page
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10. EDWG Data Uses 1 – PGE IRP/B&V Solar Potential Study
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11. EDWG Data Uses 2 – California RETI 2.0
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12. EDWG Data Uses 3 – TransCanyon Cross-Tie Project
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13. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
EDWG 2016 Meetings
July 22, WECC, Salt Lake City
October 7, WECC, Salt Lake City (or alternate)
EDWG Contacts
Fred Heutte, EDWG chair NW Energy Coalition Jon Jensen, WECC staff
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