Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 06176340-d253-4972-8a45-b7bff2a7cf33
Document Type: esrp
Title: ASSESSMENT OF NEED FOR POWER
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: 8.4
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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 need for new baseload generating capacity. This review should include an assessment of the timing of the need for the additional capacity. The scope of the review directed by this plan should include a comparison of baseload capacity with baseload demand, a reserve margin assessment, projected cost of power, a comparison of total capacity in relation to peakload demand, a schedule evaluation, and an ultimate conclusion regarding the need for the electrical-production capability of the proposed facility. In performing this review, the reviewer may rely on the analysis in the applicant’s 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. Any need for power analysis should also take account of the fact that substantial amounts of electricity are now bought and sold between regions in the country and between utilities in the same region. Such 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 nondiscrimina- tory transmission tariffs that contain minimum terms and conditions on nondiscriminatory service. NUREG-1555 8.4-2 October 1999 Review Interfaces The reviewer for this ESRP should obtain input from or provide input to the reviewers for the following ESRPs, as indicated: ` ESRPs 8.2.1 and 8.2.2. Obtain data on power and energy requirements and factors affecting growth of demand. ` ESRP 8.3. Obtain data on power supply. `