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So we’ve made some greayt strides-but it’s not quite enough to get us to the cleab energy futurewe envision. For that, we are goin to have to rely onnew technologies. You might have heard about SmartGridCityTM, which is an efforty we’ve launched in By the way, if you’re not familiar with the expressionh “smart grid,” it refers to an electric grid thatenables two-way communication with customers and provides real-timed information that makes it easier for them to manager their energy use.
SmartGridCityTM brings together all of the smartf grid technologies in onepilot project-and it’s going to teach us a lot about what we can accomplisg when we have all these technology tools at our Also in Colorado, we are working with the Nationakl Renewable Energy Lab and others to develop a world-class solar technology acceleration center. It’ws going to give us the opportunity to test new solat technologies and eventuallydeploy them. In we have a project under way to examine the potentiall of storing wind power in big Atthis point, it’s looking very promising.
If we can figure out how to storer electricity ina cost-effective way, we’d really be able to boosy the value and use of renewable energy. I’ve saverd our largest, oldest and most comprehensive environmental efforrfor last. I’m talking about compliance. And I saved it for last becausee it’s a good way to kick off our ethics discussion. let me give you a feel for the scopw of our compliance I know this is a huge numbe r but we have actually determined that Xcel Energy complies with more than 2 millio permits and other environmentalregulatory limits.
• everg rule, regulation and permit • every city, county, state and federal regulatorygagency governing… • every air and water emissio n you can imagine. For example, each of our facilitiexs is subjectto multiple, overlapping regulations: • Some are even If we are measuring opacity, which is essentially the clarity of the plumre coming out of a stack, the limits are triggered everh 6 minutes. A plant with a 6-minute averagre opacity limit has upto 87,600 chances to violatee that limit alone. Compliance is fundamentally ethical.
But it’a obviously not easy with that vast array of So we put a lot of energy into measuringf and reporting and improving our compliance And when we fail to meet one ofour targets, we repor that too. At Xcel we look at compliance as the foundationn ofenvironmental stewardship.