Progress and Plans Clause Samples

Progress and Plans. By the end of 2008, six meetings of Task 24 participants had been held.The general work plan for participating countries was developed at the kickoff meeting in 2005 at ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Dam, Nevada, United States.The work of the task over these first two years was focused on initiating participant case studies and finding how best to collaborate. Differences in terminology and techniques inherent in an international collaboration made it necessary to create a consistent framework for formulating problems and presenting results (a matrix). Participants al- so decided to with a similar task of the IEA Hydropower Implementing Agreement. Thus a joint task or annex was approved by the IEA Wind and Hydropower ExCos in 2006. In 2006, an R&D meeting was held online using a web meeting tool (Webex) through the U.S. Department of Energy. Meeting participants called into a central voice conference, while viewing and ma- nipulating a common presentation accessed and displayed over the Internet.The matrix and details of the upcoming R&D meeting were discussed. At the next R&D meeting in Laun- ceston,Tasmania, it became clear that to achieve the expected results defined in the Figure 1 Conceptual view of the relationships of wind power, hydropow- er, and the transmission control area, and the issues surrounding their integration. task work plan, distilling information from the case studies and describing the results in the final report will be necessary. Additional outcomes from the work plan were added as a result of collaborating with participants from the IEA Hydropower Implementing Agreement. During 2007, two R&D meetings were held in collaboration with the participants of Task 25 on the Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power. Joint meetings with Task 25 were initiated because the tasks had some similar goals.The first was held in Milan, Italy in conjunction with the European Wind Energy Conference 2007.Twenty people from 11 countries attended the meeting. Participants discussed methods for determining the impacts of wind energy in power systems, what these impacts are, and how they are modeled and predicted. The second joint R&D meeting, held in Oslo, Norway, was attended by 21 people from 12 countries.Task 24 participants presented updates on their case studies and addressed the primary hydropower impacts of integration of wind power. In all coun- tries except the United States, the only impact on their hydropower utilities from wind power is...