Public involvement in energy facility planning : the electric utility experience / edited by Dennis W. Ducsik

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder : Westview Press, c1986Description: xxi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 813372127
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 9685.A2 .P83 1986
Contents:
Part One. Issues and Concerns -- Part Two. View of Participation Practitioners -- Part Three. Selected Public Involvement Programs -- Part Four. Detailed Case Studies.
Summary: For decades, the electric utility industry sought locations for its new power plants in a fairly simple and straightforward manner. In many instances, all that was required was a flat tract of land of suitable size, an adjacent source of cooling water and, hopefully, reasonable proximity to the source of the load' to be supplied with the advent of the 60s and 70s, Individual and collective attitudes toward such projects changed as the country experienced a heightened sensitivity to environmental values. At the same time, however, utilities were still taking advantage of economies of scale, particularly with respect to power plants, with the size of these units becoming increasingly large.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation Electrical Engineering GC HD 9685.A2 .P83 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000005708

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Issues and Concerns -- Part Two. View of Participation Practitioners -- Part Three. Selected Public Involvement Programs -- Part Four. Detailed Case Studies.

For decades, the electric utility industry sought locations for its new power plants in a fairly simple and straightforward manner. In many instances, all that was required was a flat tract of land of suitable size, an adjacent source of cooling water and, hopefully, reasonable proximity to the source of the load' to be supplied with the advent of the 60s and 70s, Individual and collective attitudes toward such projects changed as the country experienced a heightened sensitivity to environmental values. At the same time, however, utilities were still taking advantage of economies of scale, particularly with respect to power plants, with the size of these units becoming increasingly large.

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