Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: edddea47-82cf-4080-b446-54a1ee9f97cc
Document Type: esrp
Title: FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH OF DEMAND
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: 8.2.2
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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 identification, analysis, and evalu- ation of factors contributing to the rate of growth of electricity demand in the applicant’s service area. The scope of the review directed by this plan should include economic and demographic trends, conservation, substitution, and price and rate structure as these factors may affect the rate of growth of electricity demand. 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 provided 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. Economic 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 NUREG-1555 8.2.2-2 October 1999 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