Regional Issue Identification and Assessment Program (RIIA). Socioeconomic impacts of proposed power plants in the northeast: issue paper 1

• Main Author: W., Metz.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Brookhaven National Laboratory 1979
• Subjects: Mid-Atlantic Region; Public Utilities 296001* > Energy Planning & Policy > Electric Power Generation > (-1989); Institutional Factors; Power Plants; Electric Utilities; Socio-Economic Factors; Environmental Impacts; North Atlantic Region; Planning; North America; 20 Fossil-Fueled Power Plants; Usa; Thermal Power Plants; 200100 > Fossil-Fueled Power Plants > Power Plants & Power Generation; 29 Energy Planning; Policy And Economy; 290200 > Energy Planning & Policy > Economics & Sociology; Central Region; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6730334; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1200454/

Each new major electric generating facility during its construction and operation periods presents a variety of social and economic consequences to the local, state, and regional areas. The potential for delay due to socioeconomic factors and the economic costs and benefits associated with proposed power plants are described with regard to two energy development scenarios: (1) Department of Energy National Energy Plan I and (2) a utility plan composite. Only proposed power plants with capacities over 400 MW and slated for completion by 1990 located in the three eastern federal regions (1, 2, and 3) are included.