AbstractSiting Energy CorridorsTrack: Environmental Management Author As the need for new energy infrastructure continues to develop in the United States, identifying locations for corridors in which future energy infrastructure could be developed is an important, yet complex and controversial planning step. Benefits of designating new energy corridors include reducing the time needed to site projects, improved coordination of planning efforts across multiple agencies and jurisdictions, and encouraging co location of projects to reduce impacts on sensitive resources. This paper provides an overview of the many considerations involved in designating energy corridors, and introduces a process to refine siting from a broad-scale supply/demand connection perspective to a location-specific route perspective. This process relies on the use of GIS data sources and analytical approaches to plan, analyze, model, visualize, and communicate energy corridor siting details. James Kuiper Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue Building 240 Lemont, Illinois 60439-4832 United States Phone: 630-252-6206 Fax: 630-252-3611 E-mail: jkuiper@anl.gov Brian Cantwell Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave Lemont, Illinois 60439 United States Phone: 630-252-6802 E-mail: BCantwell@anl.gov Ihor Hlohowskyj Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave Lemont, Illinois 60439 United States Phone: 630-252-3478 E-mail: Ihor@anl.gov H. Moore Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave Lemont, Illinois 60439 United States Phone: 303-986-1140 E-mail: BMoore@anl.gov |