OPPD Board of Directors Feedback SD-9 (2022)
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Today is a time of change in the utility industry. Utilities must embrace innovation and move quickly to find new and better ways to deliver affordable, reliable and environmentally sensitive energy services to you, our customer-owners.
From time to time, OPPD’s Board of Directors will call upon customers to provide feedback on specific topics. Your feedback is used to help shape OPPD’s decisions and how we operate now and in the future.
We invite you to be part of the conversation. Please review the following information and give us your input.
Today’s Topic: SD- 9 Resource Planning
OPPD is seeking feedback regarding Strategic Directive 9 – Resource Planning
Use the guestbook comment form below to give the board your feedback. The deadline for comments is August 14, 2022. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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| Click the image above to view the SD-9 initial redline presented in June | Click the image above to view the SD-9 revision (clean) |
Next Steps:
OPPD’s board of directors will review all comments for consideration.
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Comments
CLOSED: August 14 was the last day for feedback.
Who's Listening
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Sr. Corporate Governance Specialist
Documents
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SD-9 Board Committee Package 6/14/22 (834 KB) (pdf)
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SD-9 Resource Planning Policy Refinement Discussion Presentation 6/14/22 (511 KB) (pdf)
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SD-9 Initial Redline Proposed Public Comment vs Original.pdf (152 KB) (pdf)
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SD-9 June proposed vs August revision.pdf (158 KB) (pdf)
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SD-9 Resource Planning Revision Public Comment (CLEAN).pdf (150 KB) (pdf)
Better idea. Any reliance on "variable energy sources" is a poor practice. Wind and solar - in addition to being expensive and mostly reliant on China for the minerals - are inherently unreliable. OPPD, in fact, admitted that it rates Platteview Solar at zero energy production in the Winter. But we ratepayers need electricity in the winter to light our homes and businesses.
OPPD has to build reliable base power supplies to generate power when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. In other words, unnecessary redundancy. The result is wasted money; our money.
Pathways to Decarbonization is a giant mistake and should be terminated. It's plainly idiotic.
Do not crucify OPPD ratepayers on a cross of wind turbine blades!
David D. Begley
Customer-owner
I am looking at the two documents and trying to find anywhere in the second document in which OPPD makes a commitment to being "environmentally sensitive" or to consideration of "renewable resources" as part of supplying energy for the public which owns this utility and, I would argue, seeks commitment to those goals. This seems a pretty profound shift away from making a commitment OPPD ought to be making in the 21st century, knowing what we now know about climate change.
Is there any need for an additional bullet point under "Compute resource adequacy" regarding estimated population growth / changes?
OPPD welcomes your comments on SD-9