Meeting Minutes
January 11, 2019
PUBLIC BOARD MEETING
7:00 a.m.
- Roll-call, Establish Quorum
- Board Members: Mark Stege, Ken Miller, Mike Easley, Dave Sparks, and Don Collins
- WIA Staff: Jason Begger, Sarah Young, Jami Blosmo and Briana Long
- Approve Agenda
- Ken Moves
- Mike Seconds
- Agenda Approved
- Approve Minutes
- KenMoves
- Don Seconds
- Minutes Approved
- Approve Financial Report – Jami
- Jami has a meeting next Monday with MHP to review ITC transactions 0 booked monthly for accrual basis
- Meet with Jonah Bank to discuss investments for ITC funds
- Don Moves
- Mike Seconds
- Financial Report Approved
- New Business
- Governor Gordon
- No energy/natural resource staff yet – plans to rely on agencies for the time being
- State of the State Update
- A couple of news articles were published after he spoke about coal exports
- Gov. mentioned the ITC, energy office and carbon capture
- A couple of news articles were published after he spoke about coal exports
- JCoal/KHI
- Conducting a feasibility study
- Planning to make a pitch to the Ministry of Environment soon
- Try to arrange a phone call between Governor Gordon and JCoal/KHI with the new administration
- WIA potentially will plan
trip to Japan for 2019
- Legislature
- Energy Authority
- Looking at making some improvements/change via amendments
- The legislation is like to go to committee as soon as next week
- Introduced to the Senate Wednesday, 1/9
- Oil and gas community fears of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission being pulled into this authority mostly eased
- Jason will speak next Wednesday afternoon at the Petroleum Association meeting to walk them through the bill
- Low-carbon pilot funding
- On Thursday we will be doing our annual luncheon with the legislature
- Will be giving an update on various projects
- MTR, TDA, and
UK are all new since last year,JCoal has been updated.
- MTR, TDA, and
- Will be giving an update on various projects
- Energy Authority
- Sarah will slowly be coming back to work
- Starting again part-time next week
- Back full-time in March
- Governor Gordon
- Old Business
- Energy Conference
- March 27th-29th
- Location: Snow King
- Topic ideas
- Godby update on communication impacts
- Mark mentioned this might be helpful
- EnergyFairness.org
Confirmed topic atconference
- RMP and PCW updates
- Also confirmed topic
- Scott Smouse from DOE and Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, Chairman of the IEA Coal Market Group on global coal market dynamics, issues
and opportunities - IEA authors for the IEA WEO 2018 to discuss transformations in the energy sector
- NREL
- An update on how people are using the latest 45Q federal legislation and opportunities to improve
- Community Solar Project from Jackson
- Suggested by Ken
- SER update
- Suggested by Mike
- Update on Carbon Fiber Project
- Suggested by Don
- 1/3 years complete
- Godby update on communication impacts
- ITC
University of Kentucky came out in early December to look at doing a large-scale project at the ITC- Traditional solvent-based capture system
- If both
UK and MTR make itto phase III, we can look into splitting the test center
- TDA
- Small
skid they are looking to test this spring - Membrane and sorbent system
- Currently working on permits
- Small
- XPRIZE
- Still a challenge – many teams still not fully funded
- No final designs in place, no DEQ permits started, no construction started
- Facing delays
- They have reached out to get teams back in Wyoming – Will suggested we focus on getting them phone meetings with DEQ
- Might decrease the scale
requirement to make the competition not require as much funding - New XPRIZE finalist
- A space opened in Canada so CarbonCure moved since they were producing too much concrete for Gillette’s market
- New team, Dimensional, photo-catalytic conversion of CO2 to methanol
- Energy Conference
- Public Comment Opportunity
- No members of the public present
- Adjournment
- Ken moves
- Don seconds
- Meeting Adjourned