Overcoming Obstacles and Setting Priorities Report Back October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting Breakout Session II Report Back Top 3 Conclusions from Breakout Session II 1. Best practices Constituting a representative group, identify mission and information needed, transparency of funding from process and make sure impartial while being respectful of participants If developer provides funding stakeholders (includes developer as a stakeholder) choose study providers.
2. Need to institutionalize a process for developing non-site specific issues.
October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting Breakout Session II Report Back Top 3 Conclusions from Breakout Session II 3. Transparent and independent studies for macro (e.g. state policy) planning
4. 2. Joint fact finding for micro (siting) decisions (pre-permit)
5. 3. Outreach and education
October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting Breakout Session II Report Back Top 3 Conclusions from Breakout Session II 6. Process must be structured. There must be a concerted effort to perform outreach and identify the diverse group of stakeholders; ensure that everyone has a seat at the table. Results in committed, trained community members
7. Framework some regional/institutional applicability. Not the same for scale and objective
8. Obstacles: Volume of data; new data coming in all the time; its very technical; its hard to apply to real-life situations October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting Breakout Session II Report Back Top 3 Conclusions from Breakout Session II 9. A clear understanding and documentation of the questions trying to be answered so when you get to results its clear.
10. Development of code of conduct, whether a safe turbine stamp but includes a defined process, this is what stakeholder engagement means, this is how you do it
11.Forcing incentives, whether state, federal or local to require abiding by code of conduct process. October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting Breakout Session II Report Back Top 3 Conclusions from Breakout Session II 12.Clear understanding and documentation of the questions youre trying to answer so its clear what you tried to find out and what you did find out
13.Development of some kind of code of conduct voluntary safe wind turbine stamp or something required by legislation, but includes a defined process showing steps in process and opportunities for engagement
14. Tying incentives to stakeholder engagement i.e. dont get your PTC unless agree to the process October 26, 2012 Workshop Injecting Useful and Credible Information into Wind Power Siting