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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REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary—Appendix B Secondary—Appendix B I. AREAS OF REVIEW This environmental standard review plan (ESRP) directs the staff’s description of the power system as it presently exists, including both service areas and regional relationships (e.g., power pool agreements, electrical transfer capabilities, diversity interchange agreements, wheeling contracts, etc.). The scope of the review directed by this plan should include a description of (1) the service area or areas, (2) the types of customers and major electrical load centers to be served by the proposed project, and (3) system factors that are unique to the power system. This review will provide input to the reviews conducted under ESRPs 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4. In performing this review, the reviewer may rely on the analysis in the applicant’s environmental report (ER) and/or State or regional authorities’ or Independent System Operators’ (ISOs’) analyses concerning the need for power and energy supply alternatives after ensuring that the analysis of the need for power and alternatives is reasonable and meets high quality standards. The guidance in this ESRP is limited because changes in the regulatory structure are occurring as the guidance is being revised. Reviewers of issues related to the need for power should identify current NRC policy before beginning their review. Deregulation in the electricity market will have a significant impact on the analysis of the need for power. Applicants may be power generators rather than utilities; therefore, analysis of the need for power must be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the applicant type. Because of deregulation in bulk sales markets for electricity, the advent of independent power producers, NUREG-1555 8.1-2 October 1999 and the increased 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