ABSTRACT
Our hypothetical utility system has now completed its economic analyses of all five resource plans, each resource plan containing one of the five resource options it is considering in order to meet its next resource need. This chapter summarizes the numeric results of these analyses. It examines a ranking of the five resource plans from an electric rate perspective. The chapter examines the first of the non-economic considerations, which is the determination of how long it takes until one resource plan emerges as clearly the most economic resource plan. The next non-economic consideration that our utility takes a look at is the impact of the resource plans on its system fuel use. The chapter discusses in qualitative terms various issues that could have complicated the resource planning analyses our hypothetical utility system has completed, and which will complicate the resource planning efforts of many utilities in the future.
