Literature search and methodology evaluation of power-plant-siting studies for the Utah Great Basin region

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5343003

Larsen, A

This study completes the first task of the Utah Energy Consortium's efforts to determine appropriate power plant sites in the Utah Great Basin area. This study is organized into the following sections: scope of study, analysis and evaluation of power plant siting methodologies, and presentation of an appropriate framework for evaluating the socio-economic costs and benefits associated with power capacity expansion projects. The annotative bibliographies of the power plant siting studies and of the major environmental factors or criteria are presented in the appendices. The power plant siting methodology which is recommended for the Great Basin Region is an integration of the major strengths of several power plant siting studies which were evaluated. These strengths include: consistent or systematic consideration of the environmental factors, flexibility and sensitivity analysis, analysis of the economic and environmental trade offs between two or more of the environmental factors, minimization of the economic costs and time costs associated with conducting a power plant siting study, and integration of the public's opinion at the front end of the siting analysis.

• Research Organization: Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AM03-77SF01484
• OSTI ID: 5343003
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/01484-T6; ON: DE82008980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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