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Presented by Daniel E. DuBois
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Pioneers in Development and Sustainability
About Us

• The worlds oldest renewable energy firm
• A Spanish-based, multinational corporation
• A 9 billion, 100-year-old company publicly
  traded on the IBEX-35 with a market cap of
  approx. 17 billion
• A leading provider of a wide variety of
  alternative energy solutions in wind, solar
  photovoltaic, solar thermal, biomass and bio-fuel
  energy sources to countries worldwide
• Operating in five continents, with a team of more
  than 35,000 people in over 30 countries
• Committed to social well-being and sustainable
  development in all our activities

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• Our Business Segments

• Infrastructure
• Building
• Civil works
• Services
• Concessions

• Agua
• Design, construction and commissioning
• Operation and maintenance
• Integrated water resources management

• Real Estate
• Residential
• Property management

ACCIONA

• Energy
• Wind energy
• Mini hydro
• Biomass
• Solar energy
• Biofuels
• Wind turbines
• Power sales

• Logistics Transport services
• Airports
• Trasmediterránea
• Other logistics services

• Urban Environmental services
• Facility management and other urban services
• Hospital services
• Waste management
• Other services

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Acciona Energy

• A world leader in renewable energies
• The largest wind-park developer and builder in
  the world and the third largest owner of wind
  turbines in the world
• Significant RD investments for new sources of
  energy such as solar, biomass and mini hydro
• We produce and market biofuels from vegetable
  oils
• Production of hydrogen through windpower
• International presence Greece, Morocco, Italy,
  Ireland, Germany, France, Hungary, USA, Canada,
  Australia and China, among others

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Worldwide Energy Projects

• Wind More than 4357 MW of installed capacity
• 154 Windparks in 10 Countries
• Solar Under construction
• 24 MW Photovoltaic and 65 MW in Portugal
• 64MW Solar Thermal in Nevada
• Biofuels 35,000 ton per year - 600,000 tons in
  development
• Small Hydro 59 MW
• Biomass 33 MW - 30 of the primary biomass in
  Spain
• Co-generation 139 MW

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Acciona Energy North America

• Significant commitment to grow in the North
  American market
• Investing in and developing our first wind
  turbine production plant in the U.S. in West
  Branch, Iowa
• Building Nevada Solar One (64MW), the largest
  solar thermal plant to be built in the U.S. in
  more than 16 years
• Investing in a company in Solena, a
  Virginia-based company which turns municipal
  waste into energy
• North America offers strong wind resources which
  are currently under-utilized
• We expect a strong demand for clean energy and
  wind energy to continue

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Developers perspective

• Birds, Bats Wildlife
• FFA and Radar
• Transmission
• PPA vs. Merchant
• Offshore projects

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Birds, Bats and Wildlife

• AUDUBON SOCIETY STRONGLY SUPPORTS WIND POWER
• In the November-December installment of Audubon
  magazine, National Audubon Society president John
  Flicker wrote a column stating that Audubon
  "strongly supports wind power as a clean
  alternative energy source," pointing to the link
  between global warming and the birds and other
  wildlife that scientist say it will kill. The
  venerable environmental organization and avian
  champion is now on record as embracing wind
  power.
• SIERRA CLUB STRONGLY SUPPORTS WIND ENERGY
  DEVELOPMENT
• The Sierra Club strongly supports the development
  of substantial wind resources for electricity
  generation. Wind power is a reliable, clean,
  renewable resource that can help reduce our
  dependence on polluting fossil fuels (coal, oil,
  and natural gas) and nuclear power for
  electricity.
• From Sierra Club Conservation Policies.

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Birds, Bats and Wildlife

• Work Plan meetings with agencies local
  experts
• Nocturnal marine radar survey zone of risk
• Raptor migration survey, wintering raptors,
  golden eagle fly zone?
• Breeding bird survey nesting/foraging habitat
• Habitat fragmentation assessment (cumulative
  impacts)

Northern Harrier fledglings
Short-eared owl
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Birds, Bats and Wildlife

• Nocturnal AnaBat survey identifies
  presence/absence of a call of species.  If
  threatened/endangered species are possible, or
  are identified, then
• Habitat mapping
• Mist-netting
• Radio-tracking
• Maternal roost netting exit counts
• Hot topic  Migrating bat impacts (red, hoary,
  silver-haired bats)

AnaBat unit
Indiana Bat USFWS photo
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Birds, Bats and Wildlife

• Studies of any threatened/endangered wildlife
  spp. known to the area.
• Rare plant species assessment

Eastern Massassauga Rattlesnake
Leedys roseroot
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FAA and Radar

• FAA
• 200 AGL requires permit
• Beyond 5 miles usually OK
• 400 AGL
• Lighting guidelines
• Radar issues
• British Royal Air Force Study
• Clutter shadowing
• Filters turbines appear to be moving
• No wind farms within 40 nm
• FAA - No evaluation criteria

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Transmission issues

• Wind resource - often remote from transmission
  system and load centers
• Multiple projects competing for rights for
• Interconnection
• Land control
• Distance
• Equipment selection
• Transmission (deliverability)
• Curtailment
• Required for Capacity (or)
• Depressed energy price

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PPA vs. Merchant

• PPA preference
• Willing to accept lower projected return
• Pursing merchant wind
• No PPAs
• Mature competitive market
• Mandatory RECs
• Synthetic PPA (gas hedge)

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Offshore wind

• Involved in offshore projects in mature markets
• Spain Trafalgar Project
• Attractive resource
• Scale
• Some impacts lower
• Higher installed cost
• Pursing land based development is US
• Many opportunities available

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