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
CFR Part: 
CFR Title: 

Content:
or 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 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 nondiscrim- inatory 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 it must be defined on a case-by-case basis. Applicants may be power generators rather than a utility; therefore, analysis of existing and projected capacity and alternatives must be sufficiently flexible to accommodate differences in the applicant types and regulatory environments. The concept of “relevant region” is also introduced here to mean an area for which electricity demand forecasts are estimated, such as the Northeast Power Coordinating Council region, that would usually include the relevant service area, but may not if the applicant intends to sell power to a wider geographic area such as the Eastern United States. Review Interfaces The reviewer for this ESRP should obtain input from or provide input to the reviewers for the following ESRPs, as indicated: ` ESRP 3.7. Obtain a description of the power transmission system from the reviewer for ESRP 3.7. ` ESRPs 8.1 through 8.4. Obtain a description of the power