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Plant Location

This screen is the same for all plant types.

The plant location is used to provide some default cost multipliers, which may be viewed and modified in detail on the Region-Specific Cost Factors screen in overall plant parameters.

This screen contains a single parameter, the plant location. It is a menu which lists the available regions. The first 6 regions on the list are US regions:

•US Midwest Region: (This is the default.) This region includes the following US states:

•Iowa (IA)

•Illinois (IL)

•Indiana (IN)

•Kentucky (KY)

•Michigan (MI)

•Minnesota (MN)

•Missouri (MO)

•North Dakota (ND)

•Nebraska (NE)

•Ohio (OH)

•South Dakota (SD)

•Wisconsin (WI)

•West Virginia (WV)

•US Northeast Region: This region includes the following US states:

•Connecticut (CT)

•Delaware (DE)

•Massachusetts (MA)

•Maryland (MD)

•Maine (ME)

•New Hampshire (NH)

•New Jersey (NJ)

•New York (NY)

•Pennsylvania (PA)

•Rhode Island (RI)

•Vermont (VT)

•US Northwest Region: This region includes the following US states:

•Idaho (ID)

•Montana (MT)

•Oregon (OR)

•Washington (WA)

•Wyoming (WY)

•US South Central Region: This region includes the following US states:

•Arkansas (AR)

•Kansas (KS)

•Louisiana (LA)

•Oklahoma (OK)

•Texas (TX)

•US Southeast Region: This region includes the following US states:

•Alabama (AL)

•Florida (FL)

•Georgia (GA)

•Mississippi (MS)

•North Carolina (NC)

•South Carolina (SC)

•Tennessee (TN)

•Virginia (VA)

•US Southwest Region: This region includes the following US states:

•Arizona (AZ)

•California (CA)

•Colorado (CO)

•New Mexico (NM)

•Nevada (NV)

•Utah (UT)

Following the US regions is an alphabetical list of other countries for which we have data:

•Australia

•Canada

•China

•Eastern Europe (Poland)

•India

•Japan

•Midle East (Egypt)

•Netherlands

•South Africa

•South America (Brazil, Chile)

•Southeast Asia (Indonesia)

If none of these regions is a good match for your plant location, you may choose the last region on the list:

•Other: This includes any location not explicitly listed above. The cost multipliers will all be set to 1.0, as the IECM does not include data for them. You may provide your own multipliers on the Region-Specific Cost Factors screen in overall plant parameters.