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<br />'i"', ,'" of r." ""I <br /> <br />SECTION 1.0 <br />INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY <br /> <br />This report presents the results of an evaluation of new energy <br />supply technologies and an assessment of their potential for implementation <br />in the High Plains Study Area. The principal objective of the analyses <br />was to determine the possible impact of such technologies on the Study <br />Area economy. The impact could be two-fold, reducing end use fuel costs <br />and providing employment and income directly associated with the installation <br />of new energy technology systems. <br />The following paragraphs describe the relation of the new energy <br />supply technology assessment to the rest of the High Plains Study and <br />provide a summary of the results. Subsequent report sections document <br />the survey of technologies, the comparative performance and cost evaluations <br />of specific technologies, and the determination of possible economic impacts <br />on the Study Area. <br /> <br />1.1 PURPOSE OF NEW ENERGY SUPPLY TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT <br />In formulating the study plan for the Six-State High Plains--Ogallala <br />Aquifer Area Study, the High Plains Council requested that technologies <br />be identified "which might significantly affect the costs, the demand, or <br />the sources of energy used for pumping. "* The evaluation of new energy <br />supply technologies was expanded, however, from this limited focus on <br />irrigation pumping costs to include evaluations of those new energy supply <br />technologies that could utilize the indigenous resources of the High Plains <br />Study Area. This expansion of the original scope of work was in response <br />to general interest on the part of the High Plains Study Council and the <br />requirements of Regional Study Element 6-10, Non-Agricultural Development <br />Potential. Thus, the technology evaluations include analyses of end-use <br />applications other than irrigation pumping such as solar residential instal- <br />lations and fuels production from biomass resources. <br /> <br />*"High Plains Project, as approved at the High Plains Council Meeting, <br />February 21, 1977." <br /> <br />1-1 <br /> <br />