Federal energy R and D priorities. Report of the Research and Development Panel, Energy Research Advisory Board

Technical Report · Sun Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5615633· OSTI ID:5615633

The Energy Research Advisory Board (ERAB) participated in an assessment of the US Department of Energy's major program areas. This assessment features an evaluation technique in which each member of ERAB evaluated 49 program areas covering all DOE energy R and D programs in terms of seven criteria for energy supply and conservation programs and five criteria for science and technology base programs. Each member evaluated the relative importance of these criteria and judged whether more, less, or the same amounts of money relative to the President's request for FY 1982 should be allocated to the various programs. The judgements of the Board members were combined numerically to arrive at figures of merit for each program on the relative priorities of energy technologies and whether financial allocations to each program should be increased, held the same or decreased relative to the President's request for FY 1982. The resulting figure of merit was used to rank the programs in order of importance. Criteria used in evaluating the priority of each technology were selected and the definitions for each criterion agreed upon were technology potential, urgency, economic potential, benefit/cost, energy/national security, health/safety/environment, and Federal RD and D role. The criteria for the Science and Technology Base programs were scientific potential, risk/benefit, mission impact, urgency and federal role. A detailed definition of these criteria is given.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5615633
• Report Number(s): DOE/TIC-2007065; ON: DE82007065
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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