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TABLE I. Criteria for institutional analysis.
Dimension

Criterion

Indicator

Valuation

Environmental

Consideration of impacts on the air environment of the planned resources

0 to 2

Consideration of impacts on the aquatic environment of the planned resources

0 to 2

Consideration of impacts on land environment of the planned resources

0 to 2

Consideration of impacts on the region's biodiversity due to planned resources

0 to 2

Analysis and restriction of energy resources aimed at sustainability

0 to 2

Consideration of political support to the energy plan: legal aspect, political instruments

0 to 2

Consideration of the conjunction of interest between the Involved and Interested

0 to 2

Consideration of the degree of acceptance of energy resources by Involved and
Interested

0 to 2

Consideration of the degree of motivation of the agents Involved and Interested

0 to 2

Consideration of Ownership, Property and Energy Integration of Resources

0 to 2

Consideration of the application in environmental imbalance in the social environment

0 to 2

Consideration of the influence of energy resources in improving social indicators

0 to 2

Consideration of the resource in generating direct jobs in quality and safety

0 to 2

Consideration of the impact of spatial occupation projects

0 to 2

Consideration of altering perceptions of comfort: Olfactory, Acoustic, Thermal or Visual

0 to 2

Consideration of Reliability and Intermittence of energy resources

0 to 2

Consideration of the cost of generation, introduction, O&M, TIR, VPL and Lifespan

0 to 2

Consideration of the resources technological domain: Design, Logistics, Technology
and Equipment

0 to 2

Consideration of the technical ease of resources introduction

0 to 2

Consideration of the energy quality of energy resources

0 to 2

Political

Social

TechnicalEconomic

Key: O&M: Operation and Maintenance. TIR: Internal rate of return (IRR). VPL: Net present value (NPV). Source: [1].

Resource Strategic Planning. The HECO, concessionaire
of the state of Hawaii in the U.S. has developed and
implemented its own model [4], although based on the
principles of U.S. law (which refer to the original IRP).
The energy plan methodology developed by the Energy Group of the Electric Energy and Automation Department at the Polytechnic School at University of São
Paulo (GEPEA-USP) originally started in the proceduraltheoretical framework presented in [3]. The IRP, in this
case, and specifically for the electricity sector, incorporates tools that allow the actors involved (companies,
society, experts, governments) to effectively compare
the costs of all alternative resources, of supply and
demand, and to consider the financial, environmental,
reliability, and energy security characteristics.
The goal of the IRP is to provide planners with
tools for energy planning aimed at sustainability [11].
By definition, the IRP includes in the process those
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involved and concerned. The participation of stakeholders in the process contributes to the control of the drawbacks and consequences. Stakeholder participation
then mitigates the negative effects of large enterprises,
affecting the perceptions of society, and even investors, about the viability of a project. The philosophy
of the IRP approach does not seek the minimum cost,
but a series of choices and combinations, in terms of
assessing the full costs, distributed over the planning
horizon [7]. Implementations of energy sources should
vary with the characteristics of each region and the time
they are addressed [8]. Environmental data in a given
region is gathered at the outset, including information
about climate, vegetation, biodiversity, and surface and
groundwater. Infrastructure, economy, and demographics are also analyzed. These are of vital importance for
understanding how implementation of strategies may
be accepted in the studied zone [9]. Along with regional

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