Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 39b948f1-9203-4810-b235-220c00f98db5
Document Type: esrp
Title: DESCRIPTION OF POWER SYSTEM
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 8
Section ID: 8.1
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creased use of purchases and exchanges of electricity among utilities to meet demand, the demand for electricity by ultimate customers within a utility’s traditional service area increasingly is not met by the utility’s own generating resources. Trading of electricity will be further facilitated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) final rule (61 FR 21540) requiring all public utilities that own, control, or operate facilities used for transmitting electric energy in interstate commerce to have on file open access nondiscriminatory transmission tariffs that contain minimum terms and conditions on nondiscriminatory service. The term “relevant service area” is used here to indicate any region to be served by the proposed facility, whether or not it corresponds to a traditional utility service area. “Relevant service area” is a situation-specific concept and must be defined on a case-by-case basis. As an example of changes, the relevant service area could be interpreted as a power marketing area encompassing all of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The concept of “relevant region” is also introduced here to mean an area for which electricity demand forecasts are performed, such as the Northeast Power Coordinating Council region, which might or might not include the relevant service area. Review Interfaces The reviewer for this ESRP should obtain input from or provide input to the reviewers for the following ESRPs, as indicated: ` ESRPs 8.2.1 and 8.2.2. Identify and provide information on any anomalies of the relevant service area that may affect energy and peakload demand forecasts (e.g., an extremely large industrial customer). ` ESRP 8.3. Provide a list of factors that may affect power supply, such as diversity interchange agreements, wheeling arrangements, etc. ` ESRP 8.4. Provide a list of power pooling agreements as they might impact reserve margin criteria. ` ESRP 9.1. Provide a list of factors that might