PLANNING FACTORS
    Planning considerations
Expansion drivers
Customer needs
Planning criteria
System performance criteria
Capacity ben. margin criteria
Transmission reserve margin
Facility rating criteria
Model building criteria
Facility condition criteria
Planning zones
System alternatives
Load forecast criteria
Economic criteria
Environmental criteria
Variations on ATC criteria
Other considerations
Methodology & assumptions
Prioritization
NERC compliance
 
ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA PDF of Current Page
 

The overriding environmental criterion to be used by ATC in system planning is that environmental analyses will be conducted at a screening level as opposed to a detailed siting/routing analysis level. The goal of such environmental analyses is to identify potential environmental impacts, avoid such impacts where possible and, where it is not possible, minimize and mitigate such impacts to the extent possible. More detailed analyses will be undertaken to support an application to siting authorities of specific transmission alternatives.



 
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