like to introduce to you some of our environmental heavyweights from Alliant Energy and I am an Alliant Energy Employee, I might add, full disclosure. So we have Steve Jackson, we have Michelle Pluta, and Joe Hock. The topic they're going to be speaking to you about today is connecting environmental compliance to responsible resources. Thank you, Mark, and thanks to everybody for the invite. We appreciate it very much. We don't often get out and and give a lot of detail on some of the things that we're working on but again we appreciate it. We were thinking originally of getting like working out here and walking around but this seems to work okay. Everybody hear me alright? Okay good. We hope to give you a little insight of some of the major environmental rules that we're following and how they fit into how we do strategic planning and work through our resource plan. Mark introduced me, I'm Steve Jackson. I manage the environmental services group that is responsible for planning. We look at emerging rules, we put together strategic plans, budgets, and as we like to joke our work is done in decades because a rule starts 20 years ago and through litigation and all that it takes place in rulemaking. Here we are 20 years later actually doing something like constructing pollution control equipment or reaching some new compliance goal requirements. So I've been with Alain for 20 years so I can kind of say our work is done in decades. I've actually seen it and we'll introduce ourselves Joe or Michelle would you like to introduce yourself at this time? Sure thanks Steve. Steve is our boss at the Alliance. We were in the planning group there, Michelle and I. Before I came to Alliance I spent five years at the Wisconsin DNR and probably know so many in the audience some of the work I did with that agency and I've been with Alain now for the past two and a half years and it really is a great place to work and you know the company has a really good commitment to the environment and looking out for its customers so we're happy to talk about some of the environmental rules we're looking at today and happy to answer any questions so you know we want to keep this open so if there's something you don't understand or you have a question on just raise your hand we'll try to stop as we go through this that take questions as well. Good afternoon I'm Michelle Pleta and I've been with Alliance since about 2001 prior to working at Alliance. I worked mostly in the Wisconsin area at a consulting company working for a lot of the industries in this area and throughout the state so I'm not sure what else anybody would like to know. I have some roots in the shabuagan area, shabuagan sausage so. I've had shabuagan sausage as well so but no roots so oops like there we go. As Joe mentioned we'd like to keep this open so we are willing to answer any questions you have we'll do our best I should say to answer any questions you have. We like I mentioned earlier we want to kind of talk about our strategy and talk about how we do environmental planning and how we make things happen within the generation what we call our generation resource but we are now calling responsible resources because as we'll talk what used to be a lot of coal fire generation is changing quite a bit so we'll talk a little bit about that in one of the slides but we plan to talk about the clean power plan ozone national ambient air quality standards the coal combustion residuals rule effluent limitation guidelines and water quality standards kind of in general we do talk a lot in excuse me in acronyms so we'll try our best not to do that for you because we're kind of technical nerds in that way with the acronyms and it may not be familiar to you so and if you are a technical nerd great let me know you know raise your hand if you're a technical nerd and you know what NAX means and you know we'll talk try to talk in those terms for you so like I said we're prepared to answer any questions you have but we're not prepared to like dive deep into some of the regulations we want to kind of keep a high level to keep it more interesting otherwise it can be long and tedious and and you just ate lunch so is there at this time I'd like to ask is there anything specific that you didn't see up here that you might like us to cover should we have the time yes I'm not going to answer that right now but we'll help we'll preserve it for later it's a good question any others now you see where I'm going we're just getting the information but I'm not going to answer the question right now all right I'm going to turn this over to Michelle she's going to hit the next slide okay so we wanted to talk a little bit about how we go about environmental planning and as I mentioned I'll maybe start with just an example I've been with the company since 2001 and when I started one of the issues I began working on and we're not talking about today really because it's a success story is mercury and mercury emissions reductions and and really it's a good example of how we we think about you know in the long term how we can go about managing environmental compliance when we look at environmental planning and in our perspective we kind of take a very long-term approach but we also we make sure to balance it make sure it's pragmatic and we take our time to make sure whatever we're doing will make sense both in the short term and in the long term so for an example when we we started working on our mercury reductions we did a lot of testing and pilots some of those pilots were done at our Edgewater generation station here and just understanding technology and so by doing those types of things we can figure out how to leverage the results which results in which types of technologies might work well at the same time for example in mercury we had a state mercury rule there was also a federal rule that actually finally took compliance this year we have to make sure that we can expand upon those technologies so we started with kind of a dual approach looking at both kind of smaller scale technologies but those that would work with larger scale technologies so kind of in the long run what we ended up is a federal rule that replaced a state rule and kind of a group of technologies we're using together now that has over 90% mercury reductions so that's an example of you know taking that bigger picture review when we implement a rule and throughout that process I would say even the rules change several times and we actually just are getting some some closure on the mercury rule from the legal standpoint but needless to say you know we we focused on kind of the long-term objective and so I think that's just a good example of how we kind of plan for the future we don't we don't wait to the last minute but we also don't put the cart before the horse and try to over design so so kind of looking at that bigger picture and knowing things may kind of be in flux the other thing I would say is that we're continuing to monitor rules and regulations and trends and as those change over time and that helps us to kind of look at what might be coming down the pike how we can look at things not only from an air mission stand standard but also looking at water and the solid waste impacts so we're looking at it from a broader multimedia perspective as well so that we also don't create another challenge down the road when we're we're putting in some type of a control or putting some measures into place so so that's kind of in a nutshell kind of the bigger picture of how we look at things as we see new rules coming down we work pretty diligently to provide comments to our regulators on ways to help inform them on what will be feasible technically what will help reduce costs and more than anything else we're trying to make sure we have some level of planning certainty which is kind of hard to come by these days so we've been pretty diligent in offering comments to our regulators the Environmental Protection Agency Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and others on the bigger picture of you know you you're gonna ask us to do this but this is what we need to do and if you do it this way that helps us to have some flexibility and some certainty and balance and reduce the cost for our customers so that's that's a very important thing for us when we look at all of these any questions oh yes absolutely so we work quite closely as well with our trade groups and for example the Electric Power Research Institute is one national organization that helps us with many of the studies that we do on the technology to help us understand you know what will will work effectively and so we leverage those partnerships also with trade groups Edison Electric Institute and others to help kind of make sure nationally and also at the state level that when we have things come come together that we are able to inform our regulators of the best solutions okay and next Joe is going to talk a little bit all right so Steve had mentioned you know times they're changing that includes our fleet you know we we used to have you know a lot of coal generation we still see that as a piece of the puzzle moving well into the future there definitely is a place for that but our fleet has been in a state of transition you know you brought up the question on nuclear you know we can get back to you and see if we've taken a formal company position on it but nuclear has always been that kind of a piece of our pie as well we've always tried to have a balanced portfolio if you will and we always look at what's in the best interest of our customer and meeting our demand while meeting our environmental commitments and this just shows over time at least back to 2007 looking into the future how our fleet is changing and this is based on the size of the units not necessarily how they operate but what we call nameplate capacity to give you an idea of kind of the scope of these these pies so the the new the nuclear police there is a nuclear facility which we have a purchase power agreement agreement to purchase the power from Dwayne Arnold energy center in Iowa we used to have one with Kiwani here in Wisconsin until recently that nuclear piece is about half the size of the Edgewater generating station which I would note you know we have the plant manager here and a couple others from the plant so you know they've great team there and any question specifically about the plant more than happy to drag them up here but just to give you a set an idea of you know what these pies are showing that nuclear piece about the half this size of what's over at Edgewater there so we do use this term responsible resources because we're I think we've done a really good job of making reductions transforming our fleet positioning ourself well so when various rules come along whether it be the mercury and air tactics rule or DNR knocks nitrogen oxide rules come along or even clean power plan we're pretty well positioned to meet some of these rules and engaged with some of the agencies as Michelle has noted and one of things I really like about the company is at least I found that we're really respected out there on all sides of the aisle and we try to make informative comments on these rules and that that helps as well I believe so I'm going in the future you can see our plan is any coal that we have to keep it but focus on our biggest most efficient units improve efficiency at those units we recognize that if they're gonna stick around for the long term they're gonna have to be fully controlled and we've made a lot of investments and we continue to do so as an example just over at Edgewater just this year will be finishing up another major air pollution project there and as a company we're looking at some of these key pollutants reducing them anywhere from 80 to 90 percent just dating back over the last 10 years so really really impressive emission reductions while maintaining costs at a reasonable level for our customers yeah so we're really you kind of think about three or four type major pollutants nitrogen oxides NOx being one SO2 sulfur dioxide mercury and then particulate matter so those are some of the four major pollutants that we're looking at so when we say partially controlled coal we're thinking maybe we have a box for one or two of the pollutants whereas fully we're controlling the whole fleet at all now for the set of pollutants so yeah really it kind of exciting times and we're in the process of building a new state-of-the-art combined cycle natural gas plant in Iowa we've and we've proposed to expand our Riverside Center down in Beloit and our combined cycle natural gas plant there and so our fleet is really changing and we're also getting involved more in renewables you know we're expanding our wind in Iowa with their purchase power agreements and we're also getting more involved in solar we're doing a lot of exciting things with solar putting solar on some of our old coal landfills we're putting solar at our corporate headquarters we're doing pilot projects with different nature centers and schools so just really exciting times for for the company any questions on how the fleet's changing this is the last chance before we start getting into some of these rules and I think I'm going to take the next one which are notes actually a clean power plan which no shortage of stuff to talk about so Michelle's gonna walk us through that actually I'd like to just ask if people in mind a show of hands of anybody here who's at least heard of or read about the clean power plan good pretty much everybody almost yeah okay good that's helpful just to know it's carbon reductions in the clean power plan is probably the the one on the forefront for us right now as as we've discussed we're working through a lot of our other emissions reductions and successfully doing so under that fully controlled coal block and so now we're looking at something that's focusing on our carbon dioxide emissions carbon dioxide emissions will come from our fossil fuel power plants and the one thing I would say about that is that with CO2 carbon dioxide being CO2 making sure I'm good about that it's different it does not have that we have different control technologies that we can work into our plants and effectively reduce those other emissions with carbon dioxide it's not that easy there really isn't a great commercial technology out there that's been proven to help us achieve those reductions and so what we have that came out this year is the clean power plan and the clean power plan essentially it's going to be a statewide goal that will affect us our fossil fuel power plants and those in the state and nationally and what those guidelines will do is to ask us to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions across the state and so it will be a national but requirement that will affect each of our our fossil fuel units and that's essentially our coal fired units and certain of our combined cycle natural gas units with the guidelines what we'll need to do is look broadly on how we can make reductions in terms of timing the development of these plans to achieve these goals will be due in fall of 2018 there's a variety of step periods in the planning process that occur before that and the reductions will need to occur starting from 2022 through 2030 and then they step down for a final goal that begins in 2030 and beyond in terms of overall reductions these goals are going to have a 30 to 40 percent reduction from a baseline level that EPA proposed which was the year 2012 as I mentioned a little bit in terms of carbon dioxide it's different and we can't just decide to add this technology and so when we talk about the clean power plan what you have is a rule that we call something that goes beyond the fence line literally meaning beyond our power plant fence line because how we will get these reductions will be some actions at the plants but it will also be in changing how we operate and then different employing different types of energy resources such as renewables to help kind of reduce the carbon footprint of our fossil plant so it's going to be kind of an array of measures that we will work together to make sure that we have a lower co2 footprint at the same time we have to make sure we balance out those actions to make sure that we're providing you with a reliable source of power because not all of the technologies are there like Edgewater is a base load power source more broadly so what we're doing in terms of achieving these reductions as I mentioned there are some things we can do at our plant and to a large extent there are things we do anyways and that's improving the efficiency of our fleet and we've worked very diligently to do that and we continue to improve it and essentially what we're doing there is making sure just like your car you try to have an efficient car more miles per gallon we're trying to run our units the same way so we get more energy produced for each unit of fuel that we're burning we're also retiring as we talked about with the responsible resource strategy a lot of the smaller less efficient plants that are pretty old and we're due for replacement anyways we have actually since 2005 over 2000 megawatts that has been retired or will be fuel switch to natural gas we're also increasing the amount of energy we will have from highly efficient gas fired units many of you are aware that we are moving forward with building a new state-of-the-art gas plant here in Wisconsin so that will help us to meet some of the changes we have in the fleet with the retirements we're also increasing the energy produced as we mentioned with renewable resources if you look today at our distributed generation for example compiled all the small solar and wind units that we have that's approximately 65 megawatts right now and it's growing exponentially we have over 450 megawatts of wind purchased power agreements and we own over 568 megawatts of owned wind sites including the Cedar Ridge wind farm which is right here near Fond du Lac and then we are also continuing to do energy efficiency energy energy efficiency makes sense no matter what and we're continuing to make sure we support the focus on energy program is the main program here in Wisconsin so I'll all said and done those are all you know things we're we've been doing for a while and actually in terms of reductions of CO2 to date since about 2005 we've reduced CO2 by over 15 percent but there's going to be a lot of work to get to the 30 to 40 percent bubbles that you see in the rule and it's going to take some time for that transition but we think we're in a pretty good spot as as you see with our responsible resource strategy that's part of that planning approach that we like to use to try to kind of prepare for what we see as a future and making sure we have a flexible strategy that we can have a variety of options to help us to comply so questions I see one in the back well that's not necessarily an issue we we get into in terms of ourselves as a company it's not part of our operations I know there's a lot of study going on with that and oversight in terms of the regulations but we really I would say we really don't have a hard and fast position on it right because we don't have oil resources here the closest carbon potential carbon capture and storage location is in southern Illinois Illinois yeah it's not really cost it's cost prohibitive right right for the most part it's going to be a change in the nature of how your power is being produced and and that's really what these goals are aimed at not so much trying to have a kind of a back-end control any other questions well I would love to say that we have have the dollar figure for you today because I am everybody in our company is getting this question a lot so not getting too far down the road the good news is that as we talked about our responsible resource strategy we are pretty well positioned here with our balance portfolio in terms of the things we've already done so we will have flexibility to comply with this final rule the challenge is that we are not quite sure what those state plans will be in the specifics so there's a lot of flexibility in this final rule which is good but it's almost so much flexibility it's hard to know how we will develop a state plan because there's many options and I just kind of say at the highest level not getting into the technical details there's one pathway that kind of focuses they call it a mass-based approach another one is the rate-based approach and there's a lot of levels of detail for each of those and so right now we are working very closely with different agencies with different every the trade group on modeling as are all the states looking at how we we can put together a state plan and what are the best options so until we have the details of the state plans which really won't be due until September of 2018 it's hard for us to really know the the actual costs what I would feel comfortable telling you is that the cost for us will be incremental to things we've already gotten place and we we do think that we can keep them within a reasonable amount but that's going to be contingent on our state plans including certain things that we want and making sure we get credit for all the good things we've been doing and so we're working very diligently to to make sure people are aware of the things we need in that state plan to make it effective for our customers would just like to add that there without getting into the details of this there's an option for a federal plan if the state doesn't pursue its own plan and we are strongly promoting that the state develop its own plan otherwise you would be subject to the federal plan doesn't offer the state as much flexibility if you go with the federal plan so we're other utilities as well and maybe some of you feel that the state should be moving forward with the state plan they're not quite there yet that's in the works okay any other questions okay and next I think we have always a little bit about ozone might be familiar topic for some of you keep moving along here so yeah ozone and I know that's a kind of a big topic here and shaboy again it's kind of the thing it never ends there's there's six pollutants that EPA set standards for and one of them is ozone now ozone's not something that's even directly emitted by our plants or any year industries or cars it's something that's formed in the atmosphere typically in the summertime and having a lake next door enhances it so EPA set standards for these six pollutants which they call criteria pollutants ozone's one of them and they're supposed to look at them every five years they they often miss that but they eventually get to it and sometimes they do it on their own sometimes they're forced by a court but they've they've done it in 1997 they did it in 2008 and they just did it a few weeks ago in October of 2015 and each time not surprisingly the standard goes lower and lower and lower so you know we're tracking we're tracking this as we are all environmental rules we feel that our our company's pretty well positioned for these rules however this is one that we'd like to keep tabs on because we know it can impact a lot of our customers so we do try to stay engaged on it there's really two pollutants that come together to form ozone it's this NOx nitrogen oxide and then also volatile organic compounds VOCs and there's a lot of industries that emit those types of pollutants so it can be pretty far-reaching in terms of what this standard can impact and then motor vehicles as well and transportation plays a big part and the tricky thing with ozone is it's known as a regional pollutant so it can travel far distances and as is well known here in Sheboygan you can be impacted by not only your own emissions by but your neighbors and from other places far away there's a group out of Chicago that does some modeling and Lideco is the acronym like Michigan Air Directors Consortium they look at you know who's responsible for what and their latest modeling that I had seen from their director was all of Wisconsin's emissions taken in whole is about 9% of the ozone in Sheboygan not not just yours but all of Wisconsin and when you look at like Illinois and Indiana which is primarily Chicago type region you're talking roughly around 20% so a lot of it comes from out of state and the regulators know that but if you get flagged as a non-attainment area which means you're not meeting EPA's standard then there's requirements that are put on you for being in non-attainment that that apply to businesses in the area so it's important to try and keep tabs of this and as I said EPA just lowered the standard the latest level of 70 parts per billion Sheboygan has been really proactive of work working with EPA regional headquarters and also Wisconsin and our on getting some extra ozone monitors in this county and you know we're supportive of that the one that was there historically and still is is south of the city and it sticks way out into the lake there was one a few years ago now that was put north of the city so you know hypothetically would capture more accurately Sheboygan emissions and also a mile or two inland and just this year that monitor has been 17% lower huge difference EPA typically looks at the fourth highest value over the ozone season which is summer the monitor the south was 81 parts per billion that monitor to the north 67 you know and the standard that EPA just lowered the level to is 70 so it's a huge difference you know just moving a mile or two inland you know maybe a farther north it shows you Sheboygan it's questionable how much impact the Sheboygan is having so now with this new standard EPA is gonna they've already started a process where they're gonna try and define areas that are meeting and not meeting the standard so I encourage you to be proactive with the WDNR and we will as well typically the states have about a year to make recommendations on what areas they think should be classified as non-attainment versus attainment meeting these standards and then EPA will turn that around and finalize it within the next year so we have some time here in the next year or two to engage DNR and I think we want to point out some of the things we're seeing with the monitor and we'll be doing that and I encourage you to do that as well so one other way that these ozone standards impact us is not only are you dealing with potential non-attainment issues and you get increased permitting stringency in the area but for utilities we get the added bonus of EPA looks and says well we want to try and do something about this transport of ozone so if your impact if your emissions your utility emissions are impacting another state more than 1% that's what they they model and say if you're modeling more than 1% we're gonna set caps on your your fleet emissions basically your state and then divvy up it's a cap and trade program so they'll they'll divvy out allocations to try and address this interstate transport now my new utilities aren't at all the only ones responsible for ozone but they're kind of the easiest to set these programs on so it cross-state air pollution rule is one of the ways they've got about doing this and they just actually released a proposal to kind of make that more stringent so we're looking at that we're planning on developing comments and you know I'm sure other companies are as well so like I said we're in pretty good shape nox we've reduced almost 60% already and we have a goal of about 80 so you know we're making big reductions that are helpful but we're also keeping tabs on this for our customers any questions on ozone yeah the fourth high yeah yeah I mean they look to EPA typically looks at three year average of fourth highs but the fourth high for at least preliminarily for 2015 is 67 at that northern minor so Joe question came in about how will these new rules affect our local businesses you kind of hit on that real quick on the clean power plan there's not a real direct connection between the clean power plan and local businesses from a compliance perspective however you know there's things that we could possibly do together in partnership that could be beneficial so I don't that's helpful as an answer whoever had the question but maybe on this one yeah I mean ozone is one of those that really does have a direct impact and that's why we try to keep tabs on it if not for us for our customers as well you know Edgewater we've put some state-of-the-art technology on one of our the biggest unit there and it often wins awards about being the best one of the best in the country so we're happy really happy with that question back there oh yeah it definitely does yeah there's no doubt about it and it's really interesting kind of chemistry mixed because in the summertime the lake is a little cooler it takes the lake longer to warm up so it actually kind of traps some of those pollutants that come up from the south from Chicago and then they sit out there and then in the summer you know sometimes they get a lake breeze come in and they'll cool things down but not only is it bringing cooler air it's bringing some of that elevated ozone that was sitting over the lake and cooking some some years you see some of the highest ozone up in Dorr County which you know I mean there's no huge industries up there but yet they get a lot of ozone so this is something that's transported really far so yeah we do see that but the important thing to keep in mind though is if areas get fly does not meeting this there's permitting restrictions that come to specifically those areas so that's why it's important to track this yeah yeah they should yeah yeah it has three years now I believe this last year would have been the third year so well to so far okay okay well that'll be enough time for this next standard and I think they will you know when I was at DNR we worked with EPA down in Kenosha and what they did in Kenosha was they had two monitors and they really limited the size they said we're still gonna designate you not attain it but we'll we'll scale it back a little bit so that's something that I would hope to see up here as well so other questions or we'll move along some of Steve's gonna talk a little bit about some water and wastes rules and then you know other questions come up we can get them at the end too somehow I get to talk about waste no it's actually a subject that I enjoy so one of the things another rule that we're following is the coal combustion residuals rule actually brought baggy two baggies one full of fly ash and one full of bottom ash so if you've never seen it they're actually here yeah so for utility when you burn coal you're generating ash and actually when you burn wood when you burn pretty much anything you generate some kind of byproduct the byproduct for coal is flash which is very light you'll see it's a kind of a talcum powdery material and the other is bottom ash a lot of companies handle that material wet we do we handle our bottom ash wet we also generate slag at one of our units at here at Edgewater we handle it wet there's constituents in the in the flash and bottom ash that can leach out and get into the water so actually I'm talking about a different rule this is cold okay so this is why it's confusing because the next rule I'm going to talk about is the related rule and it kind of gets to the last bullet on this slide there's multiple rules that come out and affect pollutants and media in different ways so we try to take this as Michelle indicated earlier this kind of long-term pragmatic holistic approach when we look at solutions we're not creating one that you know we're not solving one and creating another okay so with the coal combustion residuals rule where I was actually on track was how we have to manage the coal combustion residuals once they're generated so this rule came out in April of this year highly anticipated lot lot of discussion around what it what's gonna you know what are the impacts gonna be so one of the things is when you generate coal combustion residuals they have to go somewhere most of our flash we sell for cement or concrete cement concrete we also do take some of our bottom ash and it's utilized for road projects foundation projects and things like that everything else has to be disposed so one of the things about the coal combustion residuals rule was to make it so there's a standard across the country of how people manage this material if it goes in a landfill it's meeting certain engineering requirements if it's being utilized it's meeting certain specifications for beneficial use in addition if you're disposing of coal combustion residuals wet and into ponds are the ponds meeting performance requirements do they have a liner do you have groundwater contamination is it stable is it safe these are the kind of things that the rule addresses and again universally across all states fortunately we have a great program in Wisconsin for handling coal combustion residuals and so we've when this rule came out we you know there's some impacts but they're not as severe as maybe other cities but it does impact potentially impact our active ponds we will be monitoring groundwater we also have to do certain studies and if some of those studies end up showing instability of our ponds or the ponds not safe then we may have to close those out and that's what we are identifying here in the second bullet as a trigger event trigger events may lead to early closure of landfill or a pond also any new landfills being installed or constructed have to meet certain design requirements and fortunately for us we've taken that long-term approach again and we've we've put in those more stringent design requirements and construction requirements several years ago so again not as impactful as it might be to others one thing that's very interesting about this rule I'll point out the little box there we have our own CCR website so everybody's welcome to go on your spare time of course go look at all the documents that we have related to our CCR compliance program this rule went into effect October 19th of this year and we had to have a website up and running so that we can inform the public how we're meeting our compliance obligations we're not alone every utility in the country has to do this so it's a new weird kind of thing instead of filling out a piece of paper and sending it to the agency we don't have to do that we have to fill out the paper posted on to our website and now everybody gets to look at whether or not we're complying so it's a very interesting aspect yes yes yes yes the other question I've had as I showed these is where where does this come out of the process the process so this is fly ash and it's actually not water sorry Eric it's Columbia's but fly ash comes it's the lighter particle that passes through the boiler passages and gets collected in either electrostatic precipitator and now we have a bag house so there are pollution controls that collect this material it's gathered into hoppers and then it's loaded out to silos taken in trucks for beneficial use or for disposal the bottom ash so so this is handled dry so this is a good thing we have dry fly ash handling and you'll see why I say it's a good thing because the next rule talks about water the bottom ash which looks kind of like a lava stone of sort is handled wet it comes it's the heavier portion of you guys in the plant correct me if I'm wrong here but this is the heavier portion of the coal combustion residual and it drops to the bottom of the boiler and it goes through some crushers and then it's transported wet out to ponds generally at Edgewater it's we have a device called a hydrobin so it's a mechanical separator tanks and things where the water goes in and it separates out the bottom ash from the water and we try to reuse as much of that water as possible but most people just sluice it out to a pond and then dig it up and then dispose of it or beneficially use it was that helpful to those as far as process first person with the hand up right there yes Eric you want to talk about Edge yeah and generally I if it's about a 70 I don't know we 70 30% 70 okay so 70% flash 80% 400,000 tons of byproduct you reused which was a 70% roughly 70% rate so we generate a lot and when we put in dry scrubbers to control SO2 we generated a whole new we created a whole new byproduct which we're working on trying to find a better source yeah it's a great believe it or not we're and we're doing studies so this is interesting and I know we might be pushing time here but we actually are doing studies with UW on utilizing that material as an ag product because it has as a liming agent it's really good and it's also has a sulfur component which the farmers like so it's the the beauty of our process is when you remove this material from that lime scrubber solids waste you now have a good scrubber solids material that you could market potentially and use as an ag product if you have fly ash mixed in with that not as good so we remove the fly ash first a very small amount carries through it doesn't affect the quality or the reusability I guess is a good word alright let me try to stay on track here five minutes thanks so what are we doing with CCR rule we're evaluating how we handle our ash systems we're looking at landfill options and like I said we are redesigning or re really we've already designed our landfill so we're really just building our landfills with that solid highly engineered design already in place we continue to utilize our byproduct as much as possible and then again we try to keep multiple rules in mind so let's go to the to the next one just because of time that fluid limitation guidelines rule it came out this year it really addresses waste waters from utility processes wet scrubbers ash transport water so like the bottom ash transport water wastewater from mercury control gasification so if you take coal and gasify it you may have a wastewater and then leachate from landfills so we we don't have wet scrubbers we have dry scrubbers so when we talked about how we plan for the future we planned for dry scrubbers thinking that in the future if we had wet scrubbers we'd have to treat or manage that wastewater from the wet scrubber so we don't have that we have ash transport water and we have leachate even though we have mercury control systems we don't have any wastewater from those systems and we're not gasifying coal into into a natural gas we used to do that years and years and years ago and we don't do that anymore so what happens here is the requirements from the ELG rule they they get incorporated into our wastewater permits and the wastewater permits are on a five-year cycle so with that in mind the rule requires that we comply by November 1st 2018 but no later than so between November 1st 2018 and no later than the end of 2023 so we have some time to comply with that but I'm going to talk again about a connection here because at our Edgewater facility and the next area I'm going to talk about is water quality standards the next slide there are other factors that might make you do something sooner here but you have to look at this holistically at Edgewater specifically they've received a wastewater permit with an arsenic limit that's very very low it's extremely less 0.2 parts per billion it's really low so when we look at the CCR rule when we look at the ELG rule and we look at the wastewater permit limits that are coming in that permit all separate rules all with separate timings we try to take that holistic approach and we say what solution is going to work best so at Edgewater for example we're going to be getting rid of the wet ash solution it is a major source of arsenic that's a great solution it solves two or three of these rule problems and the timing of that work will be contingent on whatever that first driver is in this case it's the wastewater permit and the water quality standards so we are migrating to dry ash handling across the fleet and we continue to look at you know what is the most cost-effective way to minimize discharges that could trigger non-compliance with these limits okay real quick water quality standards I kind of just touched on that are we still okay Jane with time I think it's like maybe right on pushing it okay I'll go fast I kind of already touched on this that we're getting lower limits in pretty much every single one of our wastewater permits anybody here have wastewater discharge from your process are you in the same boat yes feels good doesn't it so we again take this pragmatic long-term holistic approach to solving these problems as you can see multiple rules solutions can fit and cover for multiple rules that's really what we're doing here I kind of leave it at that and and Edgewater is kind of our our classic story here in Wisconsin for how we deal with water quality standards ELG coal combustion residuals rule it's it's a nice package and the solution is that holistic solution so we'll move into this last thank you slide and point out that we have an annual report an annual environmental report and it just recently got published we put postcards out on the table out front we don't in the in a solid sustainability effort we don't print this so you can get it electronically on our website and you can find the information out about this you'll see lots of information on things we just talked about how much our pollutants have reduced what our fuel portfolio looks like how much coal combustion residuals we use water consumption there's a whole bunch and a lot of good stories like peregrine falcon nests osprey nests and things like that that we're doing all across our fleet so we certainly appreciate the time and if you have any questions or want to stay we'd be happy to answer those I will be honest we didn't think we we thought maybe we have 30 minutes to talk but we fill up that hour really easy Steve Michelle Joel thank you very much for coming up here and speaking with us today we really appreciate it I'd like to make a couple of announcements about other upcoming events we have a focal point the topic will be well at work really that's Wednesday the 20th of June 20th of January 7 30 p.m. Jean Cole well the wellness advocate speaker coach and owner of well by choice will help us kick off a healthier and more productive 2016 our next first Friday forum Governor Walker has been invited and has accepted the invitation he will be here in Sheboygan he'll be joining us to speak at the first Friday forum I see Jane looks a little uncomfortable because you never know how things will go with the governor if something else comes up if something else comes up and the governor can't make it we have another excellent program in the bag just in case the governor can't make it but because we anticipate a much larger audience for the governor we will have a change of venue next for next first Friday forum folks from the Elks Club aren't in here room so I can say this it'll be at the Blue Harbor so watch for the invitation for that and do watch for that change of venue one other thing I'd like to mention and my apologies to Greg because I'm not a financial advisor but I'd like to offer you all an opportunity to save some money and help your own personal finances if you would like to you can sign up to come to all the first Friday forums for the entire year and by signing up in one shot you'll actually save about 20% on a cost of joining us everyone for our first Friday forums so do consider that at the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce's website and with that I believe that's all the announcements we have I'd like to thank you for joining us today and thank you again to our speakers


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to Special Delivery. It's the holiday season, look at this, oh my god it looks absolutely incredible. The snow kind of makes it a little difficult to see the map but um honestly it still looks absolutely incredible, oh my god I clicked the gift and my game just stopped.  Toy Chica party pack five thousand four freaking hundred. Really?  Toy Chica premium lower. I do not have enough for any of these do I? Nope look at that though. Oh my god they changed around the entire shop. This looks absolutely incredible um and you can now like rotate everyone here. You can see all the um all the outfits that you do have um and the reason why everything is a little bit um you know like I don't have my suits on anymore and I don't have any emails and things kind of have already been activated it's because funny story I actually tried recording this video before the update freaking came out um I thought that it was 4 p.m my time but then it was actually 4 p.m pst instead of est so I'm here re-recording the entire thing I probably spent a good so like 45 minutes recording trying to get a high enough streak we got to freaking spring trap uh we fought spring trap um and it was just I was like why am I not gonna toy chica I don't think she would you know be higher than spring trap so uh yeah basically we're doing all of this so troubles to troubleshooting guide pretty fast bare mask oh my god so this was actually something I wanted to point out is that I wish they added new features for the toy animatron because we knew they were coming honestly I didn't think that they were coming this soon because in the teaser it showed a 24 on the door so I including everyone else I I expect thought that this was going to be released on the 24th but no they're dropping it right freaking now I'm literally recording this I started recording it three minutes ago and it's 7 0 4 p.m so this update literally just came out so let's say dear johnny blocks we hope you're continuing to enjoy the x hello rary experience guys look at my reading skills isn't it on thing great of our external package we're reaching out because in user testing our brand new animatronic we found that some customers weren't using the fresh fun and friendly pretty fast bare masks we've provided our hope is that the following q&a can help you experience the highest levels of fun for our new products can offer I'm so happy I was literally about to say I wish they did something for the facial recognition that the toy animatronics have and it looks like they added a new feature they added the mask okay so let's see question toy animatronic behaves erratically and shows subsequent aggressive aggressive but perfectly harmless tendencies uh answer our brand new toy animatronics have been given an upgraded facial recognizing I freaking called it I can't pronounce it because I suck at reading um due to the rigidious new software oh my god what is with a lumix throwing out these really fancy words come on I can't freaking read um customers should attempt to use the new pretty fast bare mask in the very rare case the facial recognition software encounters a fatal logic loop awesome I'm so so so freaking excited so um and as I was doing the previous video you could say I did get a few new mods but I I don't think I have any slots for them so I guess we're just gonna have to hang out with these characters for now um there was a lot of changes in this update there was a lot of changes as you can see and I'll try to cover all of them oh geez I'll try to cover all of them but a lumix did provide a um update log I guess you could say of all the changes made in this update which if I remember I'll link it down below so you can go check it out but this game just became a lot more enjoyable so I guess we just kind of hang out here until we get toy chica again I don't know what streak I have to be in order to get her but we're just gonna go up as far as we can because actually we did get a lower so maybe we could try that out yeah let's try that out yeah let's do it I'm so so so excited so yes let's use the toy chica lower look at that model now a lumix did release a recording booth teaser for this game so I wonder if they were recording new voice lines for toy chica what was that hurt nope that's regular chica um or if they were doing something else now they did say the toy and electronics as in plural I don't know if the other toys are in the game yet which um honestly makes me a little bit uh I don't really know how to describe the feeling but I feel like we should have a little bit more by now like this game is what maybe a month old ish and we've only gotten one new and retronic in that month I feel like honestly they've been teasing plush traps so I feel like ooh Instagram notification wowzers um I feel like we should have just a little bit more you know what I'm saying but this update is still absolutely incredible you know um they did change the way that remnant walked apparently it's now more clear which ones give you more remnant but so far we haven't seen that so let's have a little look around I don't know how to activate the mask but maybe that's only for the toy and electronics um oh god is my camera being weird again I think it is sometimes it doesn't focus properly and that can really mess up the game so um yeah hopefully it doesn't do that in this video and those over here we might as well get our streak up just because why not I don't know how difficult toy chica is going to be because I have not seen anything about her literally I told you the update just came out so I have not seen anything about her so I'm going into this 100% following that but first we've got to get past all these guys so I'll probably just skip all of these normal fights because we've done them already um and I might just see you guys when something interesting happens so I guess I'll see you in a little bit oh oh I see you I see you she's all the way back there I think we'll probably yeah we're gonna end up fighting at least one or two other characters but she is on her way I'm super intrigued to see what the mask is like and I'm super intrigued to see what she looks like and how she acts you know so let's get past all these guys and then I'll see you at toy chica why is why is she so small haha why is her icon so small oh my god that's so freaking funny toy chica why is your icon so small what is with that oh my god that's actually so so funny oh I guess we're gonna fight Freddy first no I want to record a special happy fun time just for you is that a new voice line that's a new voice line super happy fun time that's gotta be a new voice line I swear I've never heard that one intriguing very intriguing hey we got a mod nice return okay so chica toy chica oh and no please don't attack me toy chica should be our next animatronic as long as endo doesn't come in in real well that's fun by the way they've totally made these battles I think they've decreased the amount of time that uh that the characters run at you because it's just I was doing this fight uh with Freddy before this video and my one that I thought oh hey in the video that I thought the update was out but it wasn't I was doing this fight with Freddy and I was only at streak nine and it was the worst fight I've ever done it was literally harder than baby and spring trap it was insane I think I've lost him no I'm good it was it was just insane uh let me see if I can see what uh maybe every character but the endo I don't know I just feel like they've decreased the amount of time that you can get the characters run at you um I do feel like they've made this game just ever so slightly harder at least um because it's just oh boy there was definitely been a slight increase at at least a slight increase in difficulty but hopefully we can get toy chiga up next again I don't know why her icon is so much smaller than everyone else's it's actually it's kind of funny but it's weird you know um also I haven't mentioned this yet uh because I was talking about it so much in the previous video that I recorded okay she's here I heard you were looking for me she does have new lines she does have new lines oh bro bro what no this is insane you won't get tired of my voice will you that's gotta be a line this is so cool how do I use the mask when do I use the mask great jumps don't you dare make that reference don't you dare make that reference large in my forehead of course my god so I'm guessing when do I use the mask I wonder again I haven't seen anything about toy chiga ready for birthday surprise I guess when do I use the mask maybe during a haywire maybe she has another move set that I just don't know about I don't know this is gonna be a great learning experience but I don't can't buy any lowers uh can I buy one lower no you have to buy five that that really makes me mad man that really makes me mad uh and like the her pack is just so expensive she appears at uh again I don't think she's gonna be maybe she is more gentle than baby but I feel like she shouldn't be so I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see also you can see it up in the top corner of my screen you get a prize every four hours which is very very very good um I don't know what the prices are so far I've only seen the toy chiga lower but uh I'm sure there's like CPUs and mods and maybe even some suits that you guys can win um so yeah make sure you tune into the game every four hours but I guess I'm just gonna get my streak up until I see toy chiga again maybe a while I honestly don't know but I definitely will see you guys very very soon okay so while we're just kind of chilling trying to get our streak back up I think I'll share a little bit of information about this update because the lovely people over on the finaster subreddit thank you uh for this lovely bit of information I was right on toy chiga I was very right I was so unbelievably right uh um when she haywires you put on the mask and you stare at her um and everything else will be the same as everyone else so that's super helpful we should hopefully find her again we gotta wait let me concentrate we should be able to get back up to her like but I don't know what streak she appears at hopefully it's not too high because I don't want to go against springtrap and baby because they suck I mean baby's not too bad but springtrap sucks um and also toy chiga was not the only new character added into this update there was another character who as far as I'm aware doesn't have a official navy yet but people Jesus Christ this is so annoying but some people are calling him a fruity frost bite or a fruity frost bear I should say not quite I don't know where I got fight from uh was that the bite of 87 hey that was a meme review did you guys see that for now oh now he made it into meme review what I what are you accomplishment um but yeah uh pretty frost bear is basically just a frozen version of ready so maybe we can try and get him but I barely know anything about him so uh it'll mostly be up to dumb luck if we encounter him I don't know if you get well no one knows this because it hasn't been four hours yet um I don't know if you get a toy chiga lure every time you open a gift box I'm guessing you won't um because it would just be unfair for those people that already have toy chiga you know why would they want to fight her again honestly I would probably want to because it's so much fun honestly it's so much fun um but the reason why I didn't look up a guide before our first fight was because I wanted to experience it by myself um before I officially knew how to do it um so yeah now that we know how to do it let's get back up to her level whatever that level is and um then we can fight her again now that we probably know how to defeat her so I guess I'll see you guys when I get there hey look someone's sending me a bonnie hey if you want to be friends with me on um on FNAF AR my code is actually I'll show it to you right now because why not see friend code there is my friend code guys type it in if you want to be friends look at you could be you look at all these people that are my friends we have such a good time hey look jb jb awesome anyways so uh yeah looks like we've got a foxy coming our way and it looks like we have loads of characters one two three four five so this is going to get us up to nine hopefully we get chica toy chica bye then so uh yeah now I will properly see you guys once we get to her hey look at that bonnie cpu okay return we have oh I guess I have some interesting news to share with you all um apparently I have been I mean I've been looking on the reddit a lot mainly to find out if people know what streak toy chica appears at and uh while doing my research it appears that toy chica cannot be found oh god I'm so sorry I didn't realize my mic was down the audio was going to be very bad for that I apologize so I'm so so sorry um apparently she doesn't spawn naturally which is so stupid that's so stupid um and I mentioned this briefly uh I mentioned this briefly um earlier in the video but her pack is like 40 bucks which is absolutely ridiculous you could literally buy four you can find four of dread bear uh DLCs for the price of toy chica you could buy the entire fanat franchise instead of toy chica like that's ridiculous um and if that is true if she cannot spawn naturally that is that's a big no no alumix that is the biggest we can no no ever um same thing with frost pretty frost bear whatever you want to call him um I don't know if he spawns naturally so far I haven't seen anything about that um but apparently to get the toy chica lowers I'm not paying 40 bucks by the way that was complete in other other bonus shoot right um apparently I have to wait four hours for the uh Christmas gift but that's fun because I don't have four hours to wait this this video is already going to be going up late already so I don't have time to wait another four hours you know so that's fun yeah so uh I don't know what to do all right I'll do a few more characters just to see if I can get her naturally but um if I can't then I'm not going to be returning returning to this game until chica gets fixed toy chica gets fixed because that is just I'm not paying 40 bucks that's so stupid like that's so stupid there are so many people on the reddit getting so mad at alumix and I honestly I agree okay with streak of eight still no sign of her which is fantastic like I said she should appear about at the same time as um as baby because I feel like they're pretty evenly matched and difficult freaking spring trap who's supposed to be like the final guy you face um because he's spring trap and he's the hardest one with his eyes telling you what to do is appearing before her I I feel like she should appear around the same time as baby um yeah alumix please for the love of god hopefully this is fixed by by the time this video comes out because I I'm literally not going to be returning uh actually that's not true because I'll get the lowest but um it'll probably be a while so I can stack up my lowest but then again maybe I don't know maybe she won't be too bad because now that I know how to deal with her you know so maybe tomorrow we'll come back but uh I don't know it's just I still can't believe it um I still can't believe like Scott let this happen Scott what are you doing alumix what are you doing as well because I highly doubt that this was Scott's idea I know it costs a lot to uh to make a game like this but like Jesus Christ 40 freaking dollars 40 goddamn dollars for a virtual character that is literally a piece of plastic I'm not even joking the toys are literally plastic hey another mod I don't know what it is but cool another mod uh yeah I'll probably end up facing springtrap eventually and if I lose to him I'm gonna hand it um but if we get through to him I don't know I guess we'll keep going until we die uh who knows maybe we'll get a new high score hopefully we'll get something out of this video because I do have to upload this video because you know my every other day schedule and it's freaking it's literally 8 p.m this video is going to go up so so so late it might even come out on saturday honestly I might have to push it back a day to saturday um but in that case you'll probably get like double upload saturday because then I'll have hopefully a lot of toychigal lowers from the gift uh the christmas gift um yeah I guess we'll go on for a little bit longer I think next time I'm seeing me I'll be facing springtrap so see you then okay we're going up against spring trap let's get this chair out of here I'm not really going to be in view I'm gonna be down here so uh sorry about that but it's better to do this when facing someone who's pulling springtrap let's do move out faster I'm gonna go over here oh god god I hate springtrap so much he's over here oh no if you're static he's over there you should be over there I will return of course I always come back um but yeah I'll return as long as I get lowers as long as I get chica toy chigal lowers I will be back and apparently you get them from the um christmas gift you get them from the uh the christmas box so uh yeah hopefully hopefully we can get her now that we know what we're doing so uh yeah honestly toy chica is not that bad once you know that oh you just gotta put on the mask and look at her when she's doing her haywire she's not gonna be a very difficult character but that does not excuse the fact of her costing $40 and not spawning naturally that is so so so stupid that is so stupid I was looking forward to this update but um honestly I'm really not that happy with it I feel like we did not get a lot of stuff that we have earned for example plush trap freaking plush trap they have been teasing him for so so long he was in the banner teaser he was in the uh the baby teaser where they released a new piece of the teaser every day uh he was in the freaking announcement trailer like where was plush trap we got toy chica before plush trap and we have known about plush trapping this game for months we knew chica was gonna be in this game less than a week I just I don't know I do enjoy this game I really really really do enjoy this game but alumix get your crap together get yourself together alumix what are you doing and scott what are you doing allowing them to cost people $40 for a fictional chicken that's just that's so ridiculous it's so ridiculous it's so ridiculous hopefully it's fixed by the time this video comes out speaking of this video coming out I'm gonna end it right now because this video is already going to be going out so so late and I apologize for that but there's really nothing I could do about it you know toy chica released pretty late for me 7 p.m um normally I like to have my videos up by about 7 p.m so uh yeah there's that right now it's a few minutes past 8 p.m so these videos take a long time to edit so I'm going to get right to it honestly expect this video Saturday I'm sorry this might come out Saturday just it takes that long for me to do these videos so uh yeah thanks for your support hopefully we can get toy chica very very soon thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side goodbye


All right, so thank you for joining. This is the class about keys to supernatural ministry. We will pray and get into the next key that we have for today. Just want to request one of us to please lead in prayer. But the Paul, are you able to lead? I can hear you in this class. Yes, I can. OK, let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ of Natharite, we thank you for this opportunity that you brought us together to listen and to learn your word. We pray that Lord God let the spirit of supernatural knowledge infiltrate us and let his guide us, Lord God, as we go in our ministry and as we go into the club. Commit the pastor into your hand that let this deliberation bear fruit in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much. Father Paul, I appreciate that. OK, so before we move further, so far we have discussed a couple of keys. And I thought, you know, for four keys we've discussed so far. Any thoughts or any questions, comments or in general about the supernatural or what you're learning from this course, we're good to know where you are at so that, you know, I know how to go forward from here. So please feel free to share. So there was one question which we had on the e-learn where one of our students had asked, why is it that believers don't flow in the supernatural easily? So I thought that was a very interesting question. So then I just made a comment saying one needs to be aware of the ways of God. Isn't it? That's what we said. We have to learn the ways of God, the provisions that God has in this word. And that's where we pick up keys like the power of faith, keys like the power of the word, the power of the renewed mind, awareness of the realms, that we are part of both the spiritual realm and the natural realm. Learn how to see the supernatural realm and the things of the supernatural realm come into the natural realm. So I just shared that, you know, one needs to develop the knowledge and all of these aspects and begin to practice it. When we do that, somehow our human spirit becomes more mature, more sensitive to the ways of God and we begin to see more of the supernatural through the lives of believers. Now if believers are not aware or believers are not walking in these things, then even though we have the mandate for the supernatural, it becomes difficult for us to see the flow of the supernatural through our lives. So that was what I shared. So what do you feel? What is it that limits believers from moving in the supernatural? I'll just ask, Zellie, do you have any views, any thoughts? John, John can share first and then Zellie will go. Yeah, Prasad. And that prayer is not answered so it might be not for me kind of a thing. So unanswered prayers might hinder believers to push themselves. Okay. So John, your voice was a little interrupted. I'm just trying to understand what you said. So you're saying, the reason why people don't experience the supernatural is because they are, they still hold on to the disappointment of unanswered prayers. Is that what you were saying? They prayed for a matter for a long time and they have not experienced that. And now when this matter comes, they feel like, oh, it's not for me or kind of a thing. Yeah, true, true. Yeah, that's so true.  So how do you deal with it? How do you deal with it, John, in such an experience? You're on mute John. We're not able to hear John. Anyone else if you have a view when people, their disappointment limits them, how do we deal with it? Yes, Lubega. Pastor, it's a question of association and doing hard work on yourself and because in case I do pray and I think I feel like discouraged, I can go back to the word of God, what does the word say about discouragement and association can be still going to my mom, she's lost her pastor, saying, mom, what do I need to do? Or peers because, you know, leadership and all spiritual warfare can be both vertical and horizontal. Vertical you look onto God and horizontal raining with your fellow humans. Thank you, Pastor. Wow, that was an amazing answer. Lubega, 100 marks for that answer. Excellent. Thank you.  So, thank you, thank you for that. John, no problem, I understand. I think there's some network issue. So you're unable to share through audio. So you were saying that that could be a fact, but the truth is God is a God of miracles, yeah. So people could have these experiences of not hearing from God, but the fact is that we know God speaks and he does all the supernatural works in our lives. Okay, so I'm just reading other comments on the chat. Jefina says, why doesn't the supernatural take place in believers' lives? Not seeking the supernatural actually limits us, that's true. So we don't seek it. Rosalind says, maybe the believers are happy and content with salvation, yes. Okay, and Lubega had pointed out there are factors ranging from natural and spiritual factors. Each group can represent the forest. Okay, thank you Lubega for that. Brother Paul, you had something to share? Yeah, I think nothing is seen when you're involved in seeing. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in you and then your altar will be dark so there will be no flow of the supernatural in you. Thank you. Yes, thank you. So sin also will limit us. So these are all some of the reasons that keep us out of the supernatural. Today, we will look at the fifth key which will help us flow better in the supernatural. So far, I enlisted earlier on all the keys that we have talked about. So today's is anointing. Today's is anointing. So we'll try to understand what this anointing word means and how is it that the supernatural can flow through the anointing in our lives. So usually the term anointing is used or referred refers to the Holy Spirit. When we read the scriptures in 1 John 2 verses 20 and 27 John says there that we have the anointing within. We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. So that simply refers to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit which every believer has. So we all have the Holy Spirit and we have Him living inside of us and the Holy Spirit is termed as the anointing. Now anointing though the Holy Spirit abides in us, dwells with us we also see that Jesus talked about the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. So one minute Spirit is in me as a believer default. I am a born again believer who lives in me, Holy Spirit lives in me. But there is something else that we must understand about the anointing the Holy Spirit upon us. So what did Jesus say in Luke 4 verses 18-19 I would request one of us to read that passage. It's quoted from Isaiah 61 and somebody please read. Luke 4 verse 18 and 18 Luke chapter 4 verse 18-19 the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind to release the oppressed to proclaim the ear of the Lord's favor. Alright, thank you Jefina Coran. So you see how Jesus talks about himself and says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me and then He goes on to list certain things that God would do through His life to preach the good news proclaim liberty set the captives free. So the anointing of the Spirit was upon Jesus to do the works of the Spirit or it is the empowering of the Spirit to do something. So as we talk about the anointing within we understand that this is what God has given us for our personal transformation. So the anointing within Holy Spirit living inside a believer what are the functions of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer what are all things that you are aware of what does the Holy Spirit do in a believer's life. Man the Holy Spirit strengthens our relationship with Jesus. Yes, yes Okay Anything else Rosalind? Teaches us this word he writes Very good, yes It will work. Yes, so he teaches us Yes Go ahead Intercede for us Yes, very good So he teaches us He brings revelation of God's Word to us He intercedes for us He leads us He does the work of we say cleansing electrification is also another work that the Holy Spirit does within a believer in the life of a believer. So the anointing within is for the believer but the anointing that we are talking about you know as far as the supernatural manifesting the supernatural is concerned is the anointing upon a believer or it is the empowering of God upon a believer to do the supernatural works of God So throughout our session when we talk about anointing I am not so much referring to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit which has to do with the personal life of a believer or the walk of the believer with God but I am talking more about the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit to do the supernatural works of God So that is what we are going to try and understand So we also see in the life of Jesus that you know he went about doing good healing all those who are oppressed of the devil why was it possible because God was with him created the power of the Spirit in and through his life and ministry so Jesus was anointed he already saw how he declared it in Luke 4 he said the anointing is upon him to do all these works and we see in the 9th step 38 that he actually did those works by the power of the Holy Spirit Now every believer as per scriptures we are told that we are anointed by God we are already empowered by God to do the supernatural works of God but what we need to do is we have to activate this anointing and begin to see the manifestation of the anointing So how is it that the believer can activate the anointing and therefore anointing becomes a very powerful key for the supernatural activation of the anointing what are all what is involved in the activation of the anointing So let's understand the anointing a little bit today I'll see how much I can cover I'm not too sure if we would be able to complete this chapter in today's class but we'll do our best So we firstly activate the anointing by understanding how it functions how does it function the anointing flows through us aligned to God's grace and gift it on our lives every believer every believer has a grace of God upon them whenever we say that we mean that God gives them the I mean just for our understanding I'm putting it this way he gives them an ability which is unique or special to them so God gives grace grace is an empowering ability of God so God gives grace and he also gives gift gifts which are specific to that individual so let's just quickly look at a couple of scriptures so that we settle this idea in our minds Ephesians 3 and verse 7 could somebody read that for us and then 2nd Peter 3 and verse 18 Ephesians 3 and 2nd Peter 3 verse 18 Ephesians chapter 3 verse 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power yes thank you Azalee so in that we see that Paul was given the grace of God to do what minister for God in the capacity that he was he was an apostle he was a missionary he went ahead and did God's work he had the teaching grace on his life so all these graces and gifts we see in the life of Paul and Paul is saying that God gave the grace God gave these abilities to him to be an effective minister for God now first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to him be the glory both now and forever okay so here is the next piece that we can add to our knowledge we said that God gives grace for us to do notice grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ so what does that mean there is a possibility for us to grow isn't it so we can grow in the grace so can the grace over your life grow let's take for example a grace for teaching so we understood that God gives the grace the ability or the empowering comes from him from that teaching anointing if you want to call it that's understood the second bit to add to that is grow in the grace I can grow in the teaching anointing or the teaching grace over my life now let's quickly look at another scripture this is James chapter 4 verse 6 again one of us can you please read it for the class please James chapter 4 verse 6 but he gives more grace therefore he says God resist the proud but gives grace to the humble yeah thank you so we notice here that while we can grow in the grace that God has given to a particular person he gives more grace to the humble so even beyond you know just increasing the anointing of God in that area on our life for the sake of using the anointing life of submission to God matters so when we walk in humility before God God gives more grace so there is a possibility of increasing the grace of God over our lives so I hope we are not getting lost in what I am saying I just want to make sure that you know we are able to get the hand key is that okay everyone or too confusing we are just getting started okay good thanks Jefina so Jefina is saying can you explain it one more time okay so what I am saying is anointing is God's empowerment and here are the characteristics of God's anointing which flows through our lives all of us have carry a certain kind of anointing so we saw how Paul said God has given me the grace to be a minister to you so he is using the word grace there grace is also an ability which God gives so different ones of us we all have different abilities in the kingdom of God like you know we could be a teacher we could be a prophet we could be an evangelist we could carry different graces okay but what I am saying is these graces I am also using the word anointing the anointing which God gives us we can grow in it we can increase in it and God is a God who is infinite okay he is able to release grace over our lives so I may have an anointing but with my walk of submission to the Lord and my walk of humility before the Lord that ability which I have can increase okay so in a quick nutshell that's what that first point is about so we can exercise God's grace his gifts they can become bigger and we can also become better conduits of God's power and anointing expressed through our lives so that's the summary of it okay so that's a bit about the anointing we have understood so then we can think about how to increase the anointing over our own lives and that we got a hold of that thought moving on the anointing or the empowering of the Holy Spirit to do is your love accompanies the word of God John 6 and verse 63 Jesus said my words they are life and they are spirit they are life and they are spirit so the word of God causes the anointing to flow through our lives but I am depending on the word of God when I am meditating in the word of God spending time in the word of God the word is also spirit okay so we are associating anointing with God we began by saying the Holy Spirit is the anointing is called as the anointing so how can I have more anointing how can I have more anointing of the spirit by having more of the word in my life so when I spend more time in the word it will nourish me it will also cause a greater release of the anointing of God to flow out of my life so let's just take a simple example healing healing and deliverance so when I start to spend time in God's word I am meditating upon passages of healing passages of deliverance what happens the empowering or the anointing of God in that particular area it gets activated so then when I begin to pray for people praying for deliverance I would just see that there is a better flow for an understanding and using such terminology there is just a better flow of the healing anointing but what did I do to get there I spent time in the word of God okay so this is also something we can do to activate the anointing I said first that we must understand what the anointing is how it gives ability of grace to us second is accompany the anointing with the word and the anointing will increase so engage engage in the word of God to see a particular kind of anointing flow let's take for example prophetic if I want to flow in the prophetic anointing it would be good for me to take time studying the prophetic how does one hear from God what is this whole thing about hearing from God so as I am doing that what is happening the prophetic anointing in me is getting activated and I will see that when I pray for people or in general trying to hear from God it is just faster easier and I am more sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is doing through me so I am going to stop again and just check if you are all here in spirit or how I don't know which parts of you are here if you zoned off any thoughts or questions at this point about the anointing what do you think you don't mute I think I will have to use the second key faith and keep continuing teaching I have no response from all of you no worries I think we will get it slowly this might seem a little abstract moving on Lubega says his mind is clear Celia also said it is clear so we can move forward alright so we said that the anointing flows better when you are in the Word the anointing flows better when we are consecrated can somebody please read 2 Timothy 2 verses 20 and 21 2 Timothy 2 verses 20 and 21 but in great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honour and some for dishonour therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter he will be useful for the master prepared for every good work so thank you Rosrin so what is there that we are vessels or at least that analogy is given a vessel is meant to contain something and we know as believers that we have this conflict with the flesh I could either go with what the flesh wants or I could go with what the Holy Spirit wants so consecration means yielding to what the Holy Spirit wants so you can imagine a vessel and that vessel is holding the Holy Spirit instead of the desires of the flesh we would say that the vessel is given to the Holy Spirit ok now if it is dedicated is being holy or set apart if you set something apart and say hey this vessel it will only carry in this case the Holy Spirit then what happens I am walking in consecration in other words in practical ways even through our lives when we are saying God we are saying no to the things of the world and I will say yes to you what am I doing I am submitting myself I am dedicating myself I am consecrating myself to God and the Holy Spirit and what have we read in this passage we become vessels of honour ready for the Master's use God is able to use us or in other words work through us because we have set ourselves apart for His use so the anointing flows better when we are consecrated and we are yielded to the work of the Holy Spirit so these are all ways in which we can see a greater flow of the anointing through our lives ok so all of what we discussed just now depends on the person who is ministering the person understands what grace I have so depending on the grace you flow so let's say I have a grace to write and I don't have the grace to sing I would expect to see the anointing of God flow through my writing instead of trying to sing you get my point when I go with the right grace there is a better flow of the Holy Spirit and if I try to sing what happens I might not see a very effective ministry then because I am trying to do something where there is no anointing so similarly if one has the grace for administration and they are trying to function in a teaching anointing it may not work because there is no empowering there so one has to go with the anointing which they carry and that's where understanding the grace understanding the gifting comes in second a company with the word so once I recognize the anointing that I have if it's a prophetic anointing I spend time with the word of God and what did we learn earlier grow in the grace so I can grow in the ability to do those things and the last bit we saw there was when we humble ourselves we are able to experience a greater anointing being poured out into us and then we set ourselves apart and God is able to flow through that dedicated vessel or submitted person under the law so this is the way in which the anointing flows so all of this had to do with the person who is ministering now let's look at what else might affect the flow of the anointing so on the part of the people who are receiving expectation is a factor that is crucial now if people are not expecting something to take place you might find that the anointing doesn't flow that well so we have the example of Jairus in Mark chapter 5 he came to Jesus to seek healing for his very sick daughter he had an expectation from Jesus we know that the people around they stopped him they said hey your daughter is dead don't bother Jesus anymore but he still had an expectation from Jesus that Jesus could do something so what happened Jesus did minister to that child and she was raised from the dead now there was also a woman in Mark chapter 5 who was trusting God for a healing for the flow of her blood stopped so for 12 years the Bible says she suffered the hands of all kinds of physicians but it really did not benefit her in any way but she goes with expectation to Jesus and touches the hem of the garment you also see there that she says to herself if only I may touch the hem of this garment I will be read well and immediately the Bible says immediately the flow stopped so what was it on the part of this woman that caused the anointing to flow and then we also see how Jesus says hey you know who touched me Jesus was aware that power went out of him what is this power remember we are talking about the anointing is a flow of the spirit the empowering spirit the Holy Spirit who has given us a particular kind of grace so in this case we would say the healing anointing or the healing empowering of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus when a part of that left Jesus and touched this woman she was healed Jesus was even able to perceive in his spirit that the power had gone out of him okay so what made the power or the anointing minister to this woman her sense of expectation if I may touch the hem of this garment I will be bead well so she had an expectation from Jesus when people have an expectation that hey God is going to show up my needs are going to be met or God will speak to me today there will be a better flow of the anointing which is why in church services generally we have a teaching time before you have the ministry time when we talk about the power of God this is who Jesus is so what happens faith is built up and before one prays or even sometimes you don't even have to go till the ministry time people are expected and they begin to reach out to God the spiritual realm and they receive their miracles why expectation goes up what if there is no expectation there were times where Jesus ministered in places where there was unbelief people did not believe the Bible says he couldn't do miracles he couldn't do much because people did not believe because they did not believe so unbelief can actually hinder the flow of the anointing what is the anointing saying it in different ways the Holy Spirit His power according to the grace that particular grace so I talked about the healing of a woman 12 years she was oppressed now you can look at this as put the teaching example again when we are speaking to people if there is an expectation ok I am going to hear from God I am going to understand something from God's word what happens there is a better flow of the teaching example but if people don't expect anything it might be the best sermon but there is no manifestation of the supernatural ok so expectation among the people is an important thing that is something that we should look into now when we say expectation we should be careful not to raise expectations in a false way just simply hyping things up and making everything very super spiritual that is not what we are talking about so don't do it in the wrong ways but a sense of expectation which is built on the word of God that kind of expectation is created the supernatural flows better ok so we are trying to look at all this so bad we can have flow of the anointing in and through our lives ok so before it becomes like super abstract and all of you doze off online what I am going to do is I will just share an example and I don't think I can finish this subject today at all so we will have to revisit it in the next class so I will just share an example you can ask some questions that will make it interesting so based on whatever we have discussed so far one can minister one can use this practical information to minister I know of certain ministers who work on this principle especially expectation how they build people up in the word of God or they can be sharing of some testimonies or there can be an exhortation right before they pray for the people so expectation is built up and then when they minister the supernatural Lakshmi takes place ok so any comments at this point yes I have a question yes when you said that grace is an ability from that moment I am struggling with this so is it like God is increasing the grace or we are experiencing more of this grace ok yeah thank you for that question is it that God is increasing that grace or we are experiencing more of the grace ok so as we saw in Ephesians 3-7 there is an amount of grace which is given when you take this word grace the word grace is used in different contexts in different passages the grace that we are talking about is the empowering the ability even the ability which God gives so it is both that is the answer God already gives us a level of grace and it becomes my responsibility to steward that grace if I want I can leave it dormant but if I want I can increase it yeah it is both does it help yeah thank you so let me just touch on another portion here that might bring more clarity ok so in our notes if you are looking at move ahead move ahead of the expectation point and it says that there are different measures of the anointing we will come to that point later next look at the section that says there are different kinds of anointing so this whole ability right like jeffina what we said it can be different for different people different abilities and according to that ability or yeah I am just going to use the word anointing so God gives you the anointing to we say anointed singer anointed preacher so there is an anointing with regard to that gift which God has given of the ability that God has given so there can be different kinds of anointing now it is the same Holy Spirit but there are different expressions of the gift based on the expression we would you know term it as anointing or that anointing or some other so there are different kinds of anointing even when we are ministering sometimes let's say it's a church service it's going on towards the end of the service and I have experienced this sometimes I just sense that there is such a power of God which is present for me to minister in the prophetic so then I go ahead and release words of knowledge I go ahead and call forth things and I am just flowing in the type of anointing that exists or the power of God that exists at that point in time which is a prophetic anointing but there are times when we sense that the Holy Spirit is actually wanting to heal people's bodies so then we flow with the healing anointing so there are different kinds of anointings and the same spirit of God can manifest these anointings through the life of one individual at different points or he can manifest these different individuals so I think whatever we have learned today forms a base it will be easier to build on it in the next class so let's just stop here and I want to request one of us to pray and we will wrap up the class brother Paul can I request you to pray please again not sure if he is able to hear me who else would be willing ok Zellie ok either Zellie or Jeff ok let's pray we can pray yes Paul go ahead father in the name of Jesus we give you thank, we give you praise we worship your door you and we leave your name so high thank you for your word today thank you for your message that has inspired us that has taught us Lord now come and dwell in us let it increase us and multiply us we pray all these for the glory of your name in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen amen thank you thank you Paul thank you everyone see you then see you the next class please to go through your notes ok we will study the same chapter the next session as well bye for now thank you thank you thank you Paul sister


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