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[en] Regulatory arrangements: In 1989, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission introduced a new licensing procedure, the combined construction and operating licences. Under this new procedure, owners of NPPs are assured of commercial operation by demonstrating that their plants meet all initially agreed upon criteria for operation at the completion of the construction. There is no discernible influence of electricity market reforms on applications for combined licences. Network constraints: Most of the large potential renewable energy sources are located in isolated and remote regions of the country. Some of the highest solar energy potential is in the sparsely populated south-western desert states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. However, the highest demand for electricity is in the densely populated urban areas of the north-east. The lack of interconnection between the renewable resource centres and the load centres, it is argued, creates potential barriers for the uptake of renewable generating technologies
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Planning and Economic Studies Section, Division of Planning, Information and Knowledge Management, Vienna (Austria); 154 p; ISBN 978-92-0-103916-3; 
; ISSN 1011-4289; ; May 2016; p. 68; Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE-1789_web.pdf; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books
; ISSN 1011-4289; ; May 2016; p. 68; Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE-1789_web.pdf; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books