Department of Energy Distributed Wind Soft Costs Discussion 

The U.S. Department of Energy has identified high non-hardware balance-of-system ("soft") costs as a barrier to distributed wind system deployment.  To better understand the soft cost reduction potential for distributed wind systems, DOE's national labs, NREL and PNNL, will work with industry to categorize soft costs and create a soft costs data set.  Please join DOE, NREL, and PNNL as they kick off efforts to categorize and benchmark soft costs associated with distributed wind systems.  This will be an interactive session with industry and stakeholder feedback on definitions of the soft costs as well as thoughts on the opportunities to reduce soft costs.

If you require a call in option, please first register for the event, then email bethany.straw@nrel.gov to request call in access.

 Registration for this event will close September 22nd, 2015.

Agenda 

ATTENDEE ARRIVAL and BREAKFAST BUFFET                                                                                               7:30 am

WELCOME                                                                                                                                                                     8:00 am

MEETINGS GOALS and OBJECTIVES                                                                                                                    8:30 am

LEARNING FROM SOLAR                                                                                                                                         8:45 am

DISTRIBUTED WIND CATEGORIES and DATA COLLECTION                                                                      9:15 am

BREAK                                                                                                                                                                             9:45 am

THE STRAW MAN TAXONOMY and DATA COLLECTION                                                                              10:00 am

IDEAS TO REDUCE SOFT COSTS                                                                                                                            11:15 am

WRAP UP and NEXT STEPS                                                                                                                                      11:50 am

MEETING ADJOURN                                                                                                                                                  12:00 pm