Collaborative Research: Investigation of Electric Transmission Line Routing Using a Decision Landscape Methodology

协作研究：使用决策景观方法研究输电线路路由

• 批准号: 0400988
• 负责人: Ward Jewell
• 金额: $ 5.99万
• 依托单位: Wichita State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0400988&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Investigation; Electric; Transmission

The recent blackout in the northeast US underscores the need to increase the electric transmission capacity of the US. While some of that increase will come from new technologies that increase the capacity of the existing system, some will have to come from the addition of new lines. One of the main constraints to new line construction is the difficulty in routing the lines. The US Department of Energy's National Transmission Grid Study cites improvements in the routing process as necessary for the reliability and security of the nation's electric power system, and further cites enhanced public involvement, including effective presentation of alternatives, to be an important part of the process. This project will modify and upgrade a Geographic Information System (GIS) Decision Support methodology, successfully demonstrated on a highway routing project in Kentucky, to improve the electric transmission line routing process. This methodology is one of a suite developed for use within the Structured Public Involvement (SPI) protocols designed by the Kentucky Transportation Center. While GIS is already employed in transmission line routing, the team proposes a new methodology that deepens the analytic role of GIS and allows all interested parties to participate in route planning. The process goes beyond existing rules to allow professionals to solicit, gather, document, and incorporate input from all stakeholders, improving process transparency and satisfaction for both the public and professionals. University of Kentucky and University of Arizona will perform the SPI and GIS portions of the research, continuing ongoing work in these areas. Wichita State will provide the engineering expertise, including the actual line design, the landscape features relevant to line routing, and integrating the design process and other technical issues, such as congestion relief, into the new process. After the new process is developed, it will become part of new undergraduate classes at WSU and UK. This class will integrate for students all the various aspects of transmission line routing, including environmental issues, permitting, costs, financing, and others. Students in the class will then participate in the routing process, representing the various parties that would be involved in an actual routing process. The structured public involvement protocol designed by the team has demonstrated its efficiency in terms of reaching out to under-served populations in transportation questions. Because the electronic polling and GIS/visualization systems are highly portable, involvement of a range of rural and/or low-income/minority constituencies will be targeted. Local community venues will be selected in collaboration with local stakeholders and convenient times will be negotiated for focus group meetings. The environmental valuation system of the underserved and non-elite populations will be incorporated directly into the decision engine. The under-served populations will feel more of a sense of inclusion in processes currently believed to be opaque and unresponsive to their concerns. The electric power supply is supercritical to the nation's economy in the sense that all other critical infrastructure relies on it. At the same moment, societal trust and confidence in public infrastructure decision-making is also critical, because without it the provision of additional infrastructure is at risk. This project offers a rare combination of benefits to society, due to its collaborative origins, as it seeks to overcome a long-standing and ironic dichotomy between the self-expressed interests of society as a consumer of electricity, and the electric industry's attempt to impute that desire on behalf of society.

美国东北部最近的停电事件强调了增加美国电力传输能力的必要性。虽然其中一些增长将来自增加现有系统容量的新技术，但一些增长将来自增加新线路。新线路建设的主要制约因素之一是线路布线的困难。美国能源部的《国家输电网研究报告》指出，改进路由过程对于提高国家电力系统的可靠性和安全性是必要的，并进一步指出，加强公众参与，包括有效地介绍替代方案，是这一过程的重要组成部分。该项目将修改和升级地理信息系统（GIS）决策支持方法，成功地证明了在肯塔基州的高速公路路由项目，以改善输电线路路由过程。这种方法是一个套件内开发的结构化公众参与（SPI）协议设计的肯塔基州交通中心使用。 虽然GIS已经在输电线路布线中使用，但该团队提出了一种新的方法，加深了GIS的分析作用，并允许所有相关方参与路线规划。该流程超越了现有规则，允许专业人士征求、收集、记录和纳入所有利益相关者的意见，提高流程透明度，提高公众和专业人士的满意度。 肯塔基州大学和亚利桑那大学将执行研究的SPI和GIS部分，继续在这些领域正在进行的工作。威奇托州将提供工程专业知识，包括实际的线路设计，与线路路由相关的景观特征，并将设计过程和其他技术问题，如缓解拥堵，纳入新的过程。 在新的过程开发后，它将成为WSU和英国新本科课程的一部分。本课程将为学生整合输电线路布线的各个方面，包括环境问题、许可、成本、融资等。然后，课堂上的学生将参与路由过程，代表实际路由过程中涉及的各方。 该小组设计的有条理的公众参与议定书在向交通问题方面服务不足的人口伸出援手方面证明了其效率。由于电子投票和地理信息系统/可视化系统的便携性很强，因此将以一系列农村和/或低收入/少数群体选民的参与为目标。将与当地利益攸关方合作选择当地社区地点，并将为重点小组会议商定方便的时间。服务不足和非精英人口的环境评价系统将直接纳入决策引擎。获得服务不足的人口将更多地感受到被纳入目前被认为不透明和对他们的关切没有反应的进程的感觉。 电力供应对国家经济来说是超临界的，因为所有其他关键基础设施都依赖于电力供应。同时，社会对公共基础设施决策的信任和信心也至关重要，因为如果没有这种信任和信心，额外基础设施的提供将面临风险。该项目提供了一个罕见的组合的好处，社会，由于其合作的起源，因为它试图克服一个长期的和具有讽刺意味的二分法之间的自我表达的利益，社会作为电力消费者，电力行业的企图归咎于代表社会的愿望。