Economic development benefits from wind power in Nebraska : a report for the Nebraska Energy Office / E. Lantz.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Lantz, Eric

Contributor:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)

Series:

NREL/TP ; 500-44344.

NREL/TP ; 500-44344

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind power--Economic aspects--Nebraska.

Wind power.

Job creation--Computer simulation.

Job creation.

Wind power--Economic aspects.

Nebraska.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([33] pages)

Edition:

Rev. June 2009.

Place of Publication:

Golden, Colo. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2009]

Summary:

This report focuses on the economic development impacts estimated from building and operating 7,800 MW of new wind power in Nebraska. This level of development is on the scale envisioned in the Department of Energy (DOE) report, "20% Wind Energy by 2030." A practical first step to building 7,800 MW of wind is completing 1,000 MW. Thus, we also include the estimated economic impacts to Nebraska from building 1,000 MW of wind power. Our primary analysis indicates that the development and construction of approximately 7,800 MW of wind energy in Nebraska by 2030 will support 20,600 to 36,500 annual full-time equivalents (AFTE). In addition, operating the full 7,800 MW of wind energy could support roughly 2,000 to 4,000 full-time workers throughout the operating life of the wind facilities (LFTE). Nebraska's economy is estimated to see an average annual boost in economic activity ranging from $140 million to $260 million solely from construction and development related activities between 2011 and 2030. An additional boost of $250 - $442 million annually is estimated from operating 7,800 MW of wind capacity

Notes:

Title from title screen (NREL, viewed November 19, 2008).

"This updated report has been issued because the prior version mislabeled the equity payments shown in Table 2. Data were labeled as total equity payments while in reality these values represented the annual equity payments (from operating the total installed capacity expected under each scenario). In order to accurately reflect the total equity payments, these values should be increased by a factor of 20 to account for the expected operating lifetime of each wind facility. Because these data were mislabeled, this also resulted in the miscalculation of the reported annual equity payments noted on page 16 of the prior report. Rather than issuing this updated report with the updated values for the equity payments, further reflection has led the author to remove all reporting of equity payments"--Page 3

Originally published November 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

274011049