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Stakeholder Meeting Materials
May 28, 2014 - Initial Stakeholder Information Session
June 25, 2014 - Stakeholder Meeting: Discussion of EPA's Proposal
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting Presentations
- Meeting Handouts
August 28, 2014 - Stakeholder Meeting: Economic Impacts to Arkansas Associated with EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting Presentations
- Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation Economic Impact of Energy Efficiency
- US Chamber of Commerce EPA Carbon Regulations Stakeholder Meeting
- Health Impact Assessment of the Clean Power Plan
- Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Presentation to 111(d) Stakeholders
- Clean Power Plan: MISO Analysis for DEQ/APSC Stakeholder Meeting
- Sierra Club Cost Considerations with the EPA Clean Power Plan
October 1, 2014 - Stakeholder Meeting: EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting Presentations
October 9, 2015 - Stakeholder Meeting: Arkansas State Strategy and Stakeholder Process for the Final Clean Power Plan
November - December 2015 Stakeholder Conference Calls on the Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules
- Regulatory Framework and Proposed Rule Impacts Handout
- Regulatory Framework and Proposed Rule Impacts Notes
- Federal Plan Structure Handout
- Federal Plan Structure Notes
- Mass-based Implementation Approach Handout
- Mass-based Implementation Approach Notes
- Rate-based Implementation Approach Handout
- Rate-based Implementation Approach Notes
January 5, 2016 - Stakeholder Meeting: EPA's Proposed Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules
- Meeting Agenda
- The Clean Power Plan: Key Choices in the Proposed Model Rules and Federal Plan(s)
- Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules Call Series: Key Takeaways
- Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules Comment Development
- The Proposed Federal Plan/State Rules: AECC Comments
- The Arkansas Clean Power Plan Strategy: Considerations for Next Steps
Additional Information
- Planning for a Changing Resource Mix
(MISO) - Arkansas and EPA’s Proposed Carbon Regulations
(American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity) - Energy Cost Impacts on Arkansas Families
(American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity) - Legal Issues Related to EPA's Proposed Standards for Existing EGUs
(American Electric Power and Southwestern Electric Power Company) - Issue Paper: Emission Rate to Mass (Tons) Conversion in EPA’s Proposed 111(d) Regulatory Guidelines
(American Electric Power) - SWEPCO Response to Affected Facilities Heat Rate Improvement Request for Information Letter
(Southwestern Electric Power Company) - Issue Paper: Building Block #1 : Heat Rate Improvements for Coal-Fired Power Plants
(Southwestern Electric Power Company) - Plum Point Energy Response to Affected Facilities Heat Rate Improvement Request for Information Letter
(Plum Point Services Company) - Entergy Response to Affected Facilities Heat Rate Improvement Request for Information Letter
(Entergy Corporation) - Why Renewable Energy in Arkansas?
(Arkansas Climate Advocates and Arkansas Renewable Energy Association)- Global Solar Radiation at Latitude Tilt – Annual: Arkansas
(National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Global Solar Radiation at Latitude Tilt – Annual: Arkansas
- Affordable Electricity: Rural Americas Economic Lifeline
(National Rural Electric Cooperative Association) - Natural Gas Abundance: The High Resource Reality
(America’s Natural Gas Alliance) - The Economic, Demographic, Fiscal, and Emissions Implications of a Carbon Fee in Arkansas - Summary
(Arkansas Citizen’s Climate Lobby) - MISO Handout for DEQ/APSC Joint Stakeholder Meeting
(Midcontinent Independent System Operator) - Advanced Energy Economy’s Comments on the Clean Power Plan to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
(Advanced Energy Economy) - AAEA Comments to AR Regulators on Federal Clean Power Plan
(Arkansas Advanced Energy Association) - AECC Comments on Clean Power Plan Federal Plan
(Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation) - EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules
(Arkansas Public Policy Panel) - Domtar Ashdown Mill Comments on Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules
(Domtar) - Role of Biomass in the Clean Power Plan
(Arkansas Forestry Association) - MEAM Comments on Proposed Federal Plan Requirements
(Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi) - The Economic, Demographic, Fiscal and Emissions Implications of a Carbon Fee in Arkansas
(Regional Economic Models, Inc.)
- Introduction to SPP (Southwest Power Pool, Inc.)
- Guest-Opinion Talk Business, July 2014 (Arkansas Advanced Energy Association)
- Letter to Gov Beebe (Arkansas Advanced Energy Association)
- Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Arkansas (World Resources Institute)
- EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan: Implications for States and the Electric Industry (The Brattle Group, Inc.)
- Remaking American Power: Preliminary Results (Center for Strategic & International Studies and Rhodium Group)
- The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change (Executive Office of the President of the United States)
- Preliminary Modeling of the Final Clean Power Plan for the Midcontinent States and Environmental Energy Regulators (MSEER) (Bipartisan Policy Center)
Modeling results contained within this document are preliminary and subject to change
- DEQ and APSC Joint Comments on the “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” proposed rule
- DEQ PSC Supplemental Data File Docket Item EPAHQOAR20130602
- DEQ PSC Supplemental Data File Docket Item EPAHQOAR20130602 (XLS)
- Base Year Comparison Summary
- Base Year Goal Calculation
- 2012 Heat Rate Rankings
- 2013 Heat Rate Rankings
- eGRID Methodology 2013 DEQ
- 2012 Rates and Utilization
- UTO Treatment
- Unit-Specific NGCC Goal Calc
- Unit-Specific NGCC Ramp Up
- NGCC Treatment
- Prime-mover Specific 2012 DEQ
- Generation Concerns
- CO2 Emissions Concerns
- DEQ and APSC Joint Comments on the “Federal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electric Utility Generating Units Constructed or Before January 8, 2014; Model Trading Rules; Amendments to Framework Regulations” Proposed Rule
- DEQ and APSC Joint Comments on the "Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details" Proposed Rule
- Advanced Energy Economy
- American Electric Power
- America's Natural Gas Alliance
- Arkansas Advanced Energy Association
- Arkansas Audubon, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, and Arkansas Sierra Club
- Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
- Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas
- Entergy
- Oklahoma Gas and Electricity Company
- Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
- Sierra Club and Earth Justice
- Southwest Power Pool
- State of Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel
