least cost option

(3) The term “least cost option” means an option for providing reliable electric services to electric customers which will, to the extent practicable, minimize life-cycle system costs, including adverse environmental effects, of providing such service. To the extent practicable, energy efficiency and renewable resources may be given priority in any least-cost option.

Source

42 USC § 7275(3)


Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (part C) of this section.
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