DUNCAN RECEIVES SPECIAL AWARD FOR LONG, OUTSTANDING SERVICE

Reprinted from WIND ENERGY WEEKLY, Vol. 20, #95313 July 2001.

Angus Duncan, President of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), received a special award at AWEA's recent Windpower 2001 awards banquet "in recognition of the many roles he has played--wind industry, public sector, and non-profit--that have helped lay a foundation for the emerging market for wind in the Pacific Northwest."

Duncan's service on behalf of wind and environmental values in the Pacific Northwest spans well over a decade, and includes a stint in the early 1980's when he represented former wind turbine manufacturer/developer FloWind Corp. on the AWEA board of directors and as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill.

Currently, as President of the Portland, Ore.-based BEF, Duncan is helping to pioneer the development and marketing of "green tags" which will allow utility customers located anywhere in the U.S. to purchase renewable energy. BEF this week began selling green tags direct to individual consumers through its Web site at http://www.b-e-f.org.

Other stops along the way have included:

* Director of Energy Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation, in the Carter administration.

* Assistant for Policy to Mayor Neil Goldschmidt of Portland in 1975-79.

* Service to three governors of Oregon as one of that state's two representatives on the Northwest Power Planning Council, of which Duncan served as Chair in 1994-95. As Power Council Chair, he secured passage of the Council's far-reaching and controversial regional plan for recovering endangered salmon runs and restoring the health of the Columbia Basin watershed. He also drafted the plan's collaborative watershed strategy that builds on locally-based watershed councils, a strategy that derived from four years of work with the Grande Ronde Model Watershed in Northeast Oregon.

Duncan has directed BEF since its founding in 1998 as an organization aimed at supporting watershed restoration programs and developing new sources of renewable energy. From the beginning, BEF has been a groundbreaking group, obtaining funding for those objectives by marketing green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals.

What began as a partnership with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has expanded to include other suppliers and markets. Initially, BEF facilitated the environmental endorsement of several renewable energy resources and then helped market this green power, called Environmentally Preferred Power (EPP), to public utilities. In the first year of operation, BEF generated $2.5 million from this activity. Also, in that first year, BEF provided funding for two watershed projects and its first energy project, Solar Ashland. Six additional projects were funded in year two; three for watershed work, two solar-powered stock watering projects, and another community solar program. Thirteen more projects have been selected to receive funding in 2001.

During 2000, BEF developed its Green Tags product, in recognition of the demand for renewable energy in places where utilities do not offer that choice. Green tags represent the environmental benefits that occur when clean, new renewable energy is substituted for power that is produced by burning fossil fuel. BEF has been the pioneer in offering this choice to customers from Honolulu to Atlanta. Revenues that BEF generates through the sale of green tags are reinvested in new forms of renewable energy.

Buyers of BEF's green tags to date have included AWEA member Global Energy Concepts (which has bought tags sufficient to cover 100% of its electricity use), Idaho Power Co., and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The tags themselves are generated by the production of electricity from SeaWest WindPower's Foote Creek IV wind project in Medicine Bow, Wyo.

"Angus has been an outstanding public servant and advocate of renewable energy and the environment over the years," said Tom Gray, AWEA Deputy Director. "By his outspoken, persistent, and visionary leadership, he has helped to lay the groundwork for the explosion of wind energy development we are now seeing throughout the Pacific Northwest. It is an honor for the wind industry and AWEA to be able to work with him in support of BEF's goals."

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