Social impacts of energy resource planning: assessment methodology and case study

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an Accounting and Valuation (AV) method within the scope of Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) to analyze social impacts when implementing new energy resources. The method is based on a critical analysis from existing assessments regarding the IRP and its design is based on algorithms that convert qualitative information of social attributes into absolute values. These values feed the subsequent stages of the IRP to select the best energy resource (among available options) to be implemented. The method has been applied and tested as a pilot case in a rural region in Peru. This work provides extremely valuable information for decision-makers to assess, with real and quantitative data, investment decisions regarding energy planning.

KEYWORDS:

• Integrated resource planning
• social impacts
• energy resources
• case study

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Notes

1 Programa para la Gestion Eficiente y Sostenible de los Recursos Energéticos del Perú (Prosemer). it was not possible, from the documents made available by the government, to identify the company private person who performed the work.