TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ducsik, Dennis W.
TI  - Public involvement in energy facility planning: the electric utility experience 
SN  - 813372127
AV  - HD 9685.A2 .P83 1986 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Boulder
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - PUBLIC UTILITIES -- LOCATION
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -