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About
NMPP Energy
About
MEAN
MEAN
projects and interests
Richard
Duxbury, former executive director,
NMPP Energy
Bill
Leung, chief operating officer,MEAN
About
the manufacturer: NEG Micon
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About
NMPP Energy
NMPP Energy is a joint action agency headquartered
in Lincoln, Neb., composed of six entities: Municipal Energy Agency
of Nebraska (MEAN), a wholesale electricity supply organization;
National Public Gas Agency (NPGA), a wholesale natural gas supplier;
Public Alliance for Community Energy (ACE), a retail natural gas
supplier; Nebraska Municipal Power Pool (NMPP), a utility-related
services provider; Essent Services, Inc., a provider of telecommunications-related
services.
Established in 1975, NMPP Energy serves
more than 190 member communities and one public power district
in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Iowa, North Dakota and
Wisconsin.
About
MEAN
Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN)
is the wholesale electricity supply organization for NMPP Energy.
Established in 1981 under the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act,
MEAN provides wholesale power supply, energy transmission and related
energy services to more than 60 member communities and one public
power district in Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and Wyoming.
MEAN also provides power-supply planning, dispatch
service, load management services, community development, a scholarship
program, commercial and industrial audits and a retail energy-assistance
program.
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MEAN
projects and interests
Power supply
MEAN continues to investigate other power supply
resource options to serve the growing needs of its member communities. Some
of these options include:
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The Gerald T. Whelan Energy Center (WEC) Unit II — an
expansion of the 77-megawatt, coal-fired WEC Unit
I in Hastings, Neb. MEAN formed a joint coalition with
seven public power partners in Nebraska, South Dakota and
Wyoming, including Hastings Utilities, for the
220-MW project.
* Investment in 7 megawatts of a wind farm
developed by Nebraska Public Power
District near Ainsworth, Neb.
* The purchase of 6.67 percent (approximately
53 megawatts) of undivided ownership
in the Council Bluffs Energy Center
Unit 4, known as CB 4. MEAN
is a joint owner of the 790-megawatt,
coal-fired steam-generation unit in
Council Bluffs, Iowa. In November 2003, the board
of directors unanimously approved the issuance of
$100 million in Power Supply System Revenue Bonds
for CB 4, representing the largest bond issuance in
MEAN's history.
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MEAN and seven power supply entities in the Rocky Mountains
have studied the feasibility of a nominal
1500-megawatt, coal-fired generation project
in Colorado.
Transmission
MEAN continues to monitor the development
of a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) in the nation's upper
Midwest. The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO)
filed its proposed Energy Markets Tariff (EMT) in 2004. The proposed
tariff is based on a pricing model defined as Locational Marginal
Pricing. MEAN is not a MISO member and none of MEAN's transmission
providers in Nebraska are members of MISO; however, the EMT could
have a significant impact on the market area in which MEAN operates.
RTO development in the western region of
the United States has been almost nonexistent. The slow progress
towards RTO development in this area has not adversely affected
MEAN's transmission rights or delivery obligations to its members
in western Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming.
MEAN is an active member in Mid-Continent
Area Power Pool and serves on various committees, including the
Regional Transmission Committee. Participation in this organization
helps ensure that MEAN stays abreast of the proposed EMT and meets
its delivery obligations to its members.
Member
services
MEAN also provides utility and energy related
services to members, including business software support, energy
audits, key customer assistance, community development assistance
and cost-of-service/rate design studies.
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Richard
Duxbury, former executive director, NMPP Energy
Welcome to the Municipal Energy Agency of
Nebraska (MEAN) Web site for the Wind Project in Kimball, Neb.
As an organization, we are driven to provide
economical energy for our members and to be ever conscious of environmental
concerns. This is the basis on which we entered into this project.
This project is a great benefit to the environment and cost-effective
means of alternative energy for our members.
With this wind project, MEAN will continue
to be a leader in the energy field.
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William
Y. Leung, chief operating officer, MEAN
On behalf of the members of the Municipal Energy
Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), thank you for visiting this Web site
to learn more about the MEAN Wind Project at Kimball.
Renewable energy is very important to our member communities.
MEAN is proud to provide a portion of our members’ total energy
requirements with wind generated from the Wind Project at Kimball
and other regional wind farms.
MEAN continues to investigate other forms of renewable
energy — biomass, solar, fuel cells — to meet the needs
of our members.
MEAN is proud to be a leader in energy supply and we
will continue to seek ways to provide reliable, low cost energy
to our members now and in the future.
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About
the manufacturer: NEG Micon
NEG Micon is based in Denmark, with locations
around the world.
NEG Micon aims to help meet increasing energy
requirements worldwide and reduce pollution by developing, marketing,
manufacturing and maintaining reliable and efficient wind energy
systems.
NEG Micon's wind turbines generate electricity
in more than 40 countries and territories around the world, in all
types of climates.
Since 1997, NEG Micon North America has
supplied wind turbine technology for wind power plants valued at
more than $500 million, representing more than 560 megawatts of
nameplate capacity in North America.
In
spring of 2004, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, who then owned 98 percent
of NEG Micon, requested to buy the remaining shares. All shares
were transferred by May 19, 2004.
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