Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: bb616171-a9c1-425d-8f63-9e4785e3b255
Document Type: esrp
Title: POWER SUPPLY
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: 8.3
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wer should identify current NRC policy before beginning their review. Deregulation of utilities 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, 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 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 the entire 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. ` ESRP 8.1. Obtain input on factors that may affect power