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DGUP
What is the acronym for our Digester Gas Utilization Project?
It's the species allowed to be taken at our Criterion Wind Farm.
What is the Indiana Bat?
Adding even a tablespoon of hazardous material to waste oil will create this expensive result.
What is a hazardous waste?
It is Exelon's procedure ensuring we report both injured or killed wildlife at our plants.
What is WIRS?
Bonus: What is the procedure number?
EMS
What is the acronym for an Environmental Management System?
It is the form of ammonia (at 19%) that we use at DGUP to help "clean" our emissions.
What is an ammonia hydroxide solution, or aqueous ammonia?
These two species can be taken under many of the USFWS's ETPs.
What are Bald and Golden Eagles?
These types of regulatory notices often come with fines.
What is a Notice of Violation?
It is what PCMM stands for.
What is Post Construction Mortality Monitoring?
Known as SEAs, these are assessed annually for our fleet as part of our EMS process.
What are Significant Environmental Aspects?
It is our largest solar ranch in our fleet.
What is AVSR1?
Bonus: What is its nameplate capacity?
Two separate ETPs will be required at these two wind facilities.
How many Eagle Take Permits are required at Beebe 1A and Beebe 1B?
Bonus: In what state are these facilities located?
Take notes, take pictures during; and, notify Tim or Danielle before this event occurs.
What should you do when a Regulatory Agency inspects your site?
Also referred to as an AMP, this will be triggered pursuant to Criterion's ITP if we exceed our take limits.
What is an Adaptive Management Plan?
Bonus: How many bats are we allowed to take under our ITP (over a 20 year period)?
Among many other needs, this system tracks non-routine, external environmental inquiries (dare we say "complaints") to closure.
What is a CMMS?
It is the software that performs CEM at DGUP, created and maintained by ESC.
What is StackVision?
Both Fourmile and Fair Wind have one of these which precluded the need for an ITP (referred to as a TAL).
What is a Technical Assistance Letter?
Take pictures, measurements, and notations as part of our WIRS procedure; primarily to protect ourselves from this federal Agency's concerns.
What is the USFWS?
The disease that has devastated our bat population and is the primary reason we had to secure an ITP at Criterion.
What is White Nose Syndrome?
Our EMS prompted review of our hermetically sealed insulators for our entire fleet to detect whether release of this gas was supposed to be reported.
What is SF6?
They take many years to grow tall, which is why we protect them at one of our facilities.
What are Joshua Trees?
Bonus: At which facility?
Its acronym is HCP and is where the details of our curtailment is discussed for our Maryland wind farms.
What is a Habitat Conservation Plan?
We obtained this document to preclude the need for an ITP at Fourmile and Fair Wind.
What is a TAL (Technical Assistance Letter)?
Bonus: From whom did we obtain it?
It's one of the three additional bat species that has been recently listed as endangered in Pennsylvania. They fly in Maryland, too.
What is the Northern Long-Eared, Tri-colored, or the Little Brown Bat?
These are 3 of our Significant Environmental Aspects associated with our wind fleet.
What are 1) Natural Resources - Wildlife & Habitat Alteration; 2) Natural Resources - Wildlife & Habitat Restoration; 3) Noise; 4) Visual; 5) Oil spills.