Mark Parkinson

Lt. Governor, State of Kansas

Climate Change Climate Change Impacts on Kansas

Source: Washington State Department of Ecology

Until 1750 and the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide measured in parts per million (ppm) never exceed 275. However since that time the rate of increase is approximately 2 ppm/year and is now over 380 ppm. You can see a direct correlation between the increase in temperature and increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Source: IPCC Working Group 1

Source: Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences

Source: EPA

August 1941 August 2004

Muir Glacier, Alaska, 1941-2004

Current Change: Coastal Glaciers are Retreating

NSIDC/WDC for Glaciology, Boulder, compiler. 2002, updated 2006. Online glacierphotograph database. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Source: John P. Holden, Harvard

Current Change: Coastal Glaciers are Retreating

Mountainglaciers areShrinking

Qori KalisGlacier, Peru

Source: John P. Holden, Harvard

ARCTIC SEAICE BOUNDARY IN 1979

Since 1979, more than20% of the polar Ice Cap

has melted away.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

PHOTO: NASA

Tangible effects: Sea Levels

Siberian lakes shrink as the Arctic permafrost beneath them melts

Satellite images: minimum levels of Arctic sea ice in the summers of 1979 (left) and 2005 demonstrate warming trend. (Futurist Magazine)

IPCC estimates that the global average sea level will rise by 7.2 to 23.6 inches by 2100.

Surface melting on Greenland is expanding

In 1992 scientists measured hisamount of melting in Greenland as indicated by red areas on the map

Ten years later, in 2002, themelting was much worse

And in 2005, it accelerateddramatically yet again

Source: ACIA, 2004 and CIRES, 2005

Why it matters to Kansas… negative effects on the state

Source: IPCC

Temperature Change

Kansas could experience a winter increase in average temperatures of 5 degrees F and a

summer time increase of approximately 10

degrees F.

Source: IPCC

Precipitation Change

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Why it matters to Kansas… positive effects with carbon

mitigation

Wind Energy Projects As of Dec 31, 2006

WIND PROJECT (County) DEVELOPER UTILITY SIZE YEAR_______

Jeffery Energy Center (Pottawatomie Co.) Westar Westar 1.5 MW 1999

Gray County Wind Farm (Gray Co.) FPL Energy Aqula 112.2 MW 2001

Elk River Wind Facility (Butler Co.) PPM Energy Empire 150 MW 2005

Spearville Wind Energy Facility (Ford Co.) enXco KCP&L 100.4 MW 2006

TOTAL INSTALLED AT END OF 2007 364.1 MW

Smoky Hills Wind Farm (Lincoln Co.) Tradewind Sunflower 50.4 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)

KC BPU 25 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)

Midwest 25.2 MW 2008 (1st Qtr)

Meridian Wind Farm (Cloud Co.) Horizon Empire 105 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)

Westar 96 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)

Flat Ridge Wind Farm (Wichita Co.) BP Alternative Energy Westar 100 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)

Central Plains Wind Farm (Barber Co.) RES America Dev, Inc Westar 99 MW 2008 (4th Qtr)

TOTAL INSTALLED AT END OF 2008 864.7 MW

KCP&L Announcement (3/20/07) RFP was due 6/15/07 KCP&L 300 MW 300 MW by 2012

Kansas Wind Projects – In operation and announced

Updated by KCC Energy Programs (Jan 2008)

Economic Impacts to Kansasfrom 7158 MW of new wind development by 2030

Direct Impacts

Payments to Landowners: • $20.8 million/year Local Property Tax Revenue:• $19 million/yearConstruction Phase:• 11,133 new construction jobs• $1.35B to local economiesOperational Phase:• 1805 new long-term jobs• $152M/yr to local economies

Indirect Impacts

Construction Phase:• 5,000 new jobs• $424M to local economiesOperational Phase:• 438 local jobs• $43 M/yr to local economies

Induced Impacts

Construction Phase:• 6,223 new jobs• $559 M to local economiesOperational Phase:• 850 local jobs• $76 M/yr to local economies

Wind energy’s economic “ripple effect”

Construction Phase = 1-2 yearsOperational Phase = 20+ years

Totals (construction + 20 yrs)Total economic benefit to Kansas = $7.8 billionNew local jobs during construction = over 23,000New long-term jobs for Kansans = over 3,000

Source: NREL – Wind Powering America

Thank YouLieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson