1st Edition

Public Involvement In Energy Facility Planning The Electric Utility Experience

By Dennis W Ducsik Copyright 1987
    451 Pages
    by Routledge

    474 Pages
    by Routledge

    Because the power industry is anticipating greatly increased generating capacity requirements in the 1990s, political controversy over electricity demand and supply is likely to return to--and perhaps surpass--the level of rancor experienced during the 1970s. Fortunately, a sizable number of utility companies have come to believe that destructive c

    Foreword -- Introduction: The Quiet Revolution in Utility-Citizen Interaction -- Issues and Concerns -- Citizen Participation in Power Plant Siting: Aladdin's Lamp or Pandora's Box? -- Consumer Advisory Boards and Investor-owned Utilities: Rhetoric and Reality -- Views of Participation Practitioners -- Chairman's Report on the 1982 Edison Electric Institute Workshop on Public Participation -- Chairman's Report on the 1981 Canadian Utilities' Workshop on Public Participation -- Selected Public Involvement Programs -- The Evolution of Public Involvement in Project Planning at Ontario Hydro -- Citizen Participation in Decision-making at Portland General Electric -- Public Participation in the Tennessee Valley Authority's Energy Planning Process, 1983 -- Public Participation in Routing Transmission Lines: A Program Born of Adversity -- The Value-Sensitive Approach to Facility Siting: Two Examples -- Detailed Case Studies -- Open Power Plant Siting: The Pioneering (and Successful) Experience of Northern States Power -- Open Power Plant Siting: The Pioneering (and Unsuccessful) Experience of Northeast Utilities -- Public Involvement in Corporate Technology Decision-making: The Case of Pennsylvania Power and Light -- Appendixes -- The Federal Government Should Encourage Early Public, Regulatory, and Industry Cooperation in Siting Energy Facilities -- Annotated Bibliography on Citizen Participation in Power Facility Planning

    Biography

    Dennis W. Ducsik