BOOMP user's guide

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6308348

Monts, J K

An attempt has been made to develop a methodology for assessing the socio-economic impacts of various types of energy development. BOOM1 is a computer simulation model that is designed to simulate community-level socio-economic impacts from building a 1500-MW power plant near a hypothetical agricultural community (EAPA 3:1111). Power plants construction attracts in-migrants who in turn create considerable additional demand for private and public facilites, in turn creating a drain on local resources (an increase in property tax rate). BOOMP is an extension of BOOM1 designed to model public sector impacts in a more-detailed fashion. The public sector is disaggregated into the Education, Police Protection, Fire Protection, Water, Sanitary Sewerage, and Residual subsectors. Each of these subsectors is then disaggregated into a Capital Facilities subsector and an Operating Services subsector. The BOOMP conceptualization then identifies the major components of each of these subsectors. The final step in the BOOMP conceptualization is establshing the supply and demand interface with the other sectors of the BOOM model.

• Research Organization: Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Center for Energy Studies
• OSTI ID: 6308348
• Report Number(s): UT/CES-GS-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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B CODES
BOOM TOWNS
COMMUNITIES
COMPUTER CODES
CONSTRUCTION
DECISION MAKING
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMIC IMPACT
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
EMPLOYMENT
ENERGY MODELS
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN POPULATIONS
MANUALS
POPULATION DYNAMICS
POPULATIONS
POWER PLANTS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
SOCIAL IMPACT
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
TAXES