Hey Denver, it's time for this biweekly meeting of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee starting now.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

My name is Chantel Lewis, and I represent the residents in District 8.

Welcome to our first Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

I will say I'm excited to say that it's a lot less than the Biz Committee.

So super excited about that.

And I'm also excited to chair this committee.

With that, we can do a round of introductions.

And I'll start with you for Tim.

Hi, good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Kevin Flynn, Southwest Denver's District 2.

Good afternoon, Chris Hines, Denver is perfect.

Stacey Gilmore, District 11.

Thank you.

And Councilman Heinz is the uh vice chair of this committee as well.

With that, we have one briefing, which is DENS Alternative Energy Feasibility Study, which we're very excited about.

So I'll let you all um introduce yourselves and jump in.

Yes, thank you, uh Madam Chair, Phil Washington, the CEO of Denver International Airport.

Good afternoon.

Uh Dave LePorte, chief operating officer at the Denver Airport.

Good afternoon, Kevin Forgett, state and local legislative advisor at the airport.

So, madam chair, thank you for uh for having us uh you and the uh the committee.

Um this is an information brief uh that we want to provide um uh to you uh and let me start with um sort of our first slide um that talks about the current state of uh electricity and energy uh at Denver International Airport.

And you know many of these facts, but I think it bears mentioning uh anyway.

You know that we are uh one of the busiest airports uh in the world.

Uh the largest economic Colorado's largest economic engine.

Uh and we are looking way ahead sort of our vision, uh Vision 100 to serve 100 million annual passengers in the coming years, and also 120 plus million uh as we uh go forward because of that, our current state, which we'll talk about in a minute in terms of uh electricity and energy, and because uh of our demand for power, um, we uh have been discussing the idea uh of a first a feasibility study for small modular nuclear reactors.

Um we have a capital improvement program that we have briefed to this committee before.

Uh uh this is a 12-year capital improvement program, 12 billion dollars, um, and the demand for energy and power uh becomes very, very important for all of that.

Um, we also, in addition to those projects, we also are preparing for innovative uh advanced air mobility in the form of flying taxis and the form of uh uh EVTOL, which is uh vertical takeoff and landing, uh, and uh many of the other projects that will require power.

Um currently the airport um uh the current state is about 45 megawatts of power that we currently use.

The consolidated rental car facility that we brought to this committee some months ago and you approved alone will take 40 megawatts of power.

Uh, and so you can see uh the need uh for us to be thinking about flexible and sustainable power.

And so I wanted to set that stage before we got into the presentation.

Next slide.

Um, we uh put this slide uh towards the front, uh, the center of equity and excellence in aviation, because this innovative approach is going to be incubated within CEA with the creation of career pathways for young people to understand uh how uh small modular nuclear reactors work, um, to understand the opportunity uh around that specialty in terms of employment later on.

I'm happy to say we've got uh four, three or four, maybe five interns here that we asked to do a research study on small modular reactors.

Uh I threatened them by saying I was going to have them do this presentation.

Um, but but they're more than capable of doing it.

So after Washington, can we introduce them?

Absolutely.

Yes, please.

You can introduce yourselves.

One at a time.

Hi, I'm Jaden Knight.

I'm the civil BIM intern in asset management.

Hi, I'm Rylan Newman.

I'm sustainability and waste diversion intern at Den.

Hi, I'm Victoria Sprongovsky.

I'm with the systems integration management office until May.

And I'm Morgan Edstrom, the systems intern within DEC.

Thank you all for your work.

Really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh and so uh the vision is uh sort of consistent with the slides you sit you see up here.

I won't go each each one of those, but the idea to create uh career pathways in this space becomes very, very important to us.

So we propose uh to release uh a request for proposal for a feasibility study to determine the viability uh of small modular reactors.