Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 5071ad4a-5acf-4db6-95f2-6add6fdf98d4
Document Type: esrp
Title: ALTERNATIVES NOT REQUIRING NEW GENERATING CAPACITY
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.2.1
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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 review and assessment of the economic and technical feasibility of (1) supplying the projected demand for electrical energy identified in ESRP 8.4 without constructing new generating capacity or (2) initiating energy conservation measures that would avoid the need for the plant. The scope of the review directed by this plan should include consideration of (1) power purchases from other utilities or power generators and reactivation or extended service life of plants within the power system in combinations that should provide a supply alternative to the proposed project and (2) the potential for energy conservation on demand management measures that would be equivalent to the output of the proposed project. Energy sources selected by this review should be compared with the proposed project by the reviewer for ESRP 9.2.3. In performing this review, the reviewer may rely on the analysis in the applicant’s environmental report (ER) and/or State or regional authorities’ analyses concerning the need for power and energy supply alternatives. The reviewer should ensure 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 the regulatory environment for electrical generating facilities is changing. Reviewers of issues related to need for power and evaluation of alternatives must know current NRC policy before beginning their review. Deregulation of utilities and open access to power-transmission systems should have a significant impact on the analysis of need for power, on the NUREG-1555 9.2.1-2 October 1999 competition for cheaper power, and on the service area. Because of deregulation in bulk sales markets for electricity, the advent of independent power producers, and the increased use of purchases and exchanges of