EPRI New Energy Resources Department strategy paper. Summary report

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6275124

Lotker, M

The heightened interest by all sectors of the energy marketplace in the renewable or virtually inexhaustible energy sources has led to the formation of the New Energy Resources (NER) Department at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). This Department serves as a focus for electric utility industry efforts in the fusion, solar, and geothermal areas. In examining the performance and plans of the NER Department, it is appropriate to question our national need for these technologies and the appropriate role of EPRI and the electric utility industry in their development, and then, assuming an EPRI role is indeed merited, to develop a specific strategy or set of strategy options for pursuit of each technology. Strategy development at EPRI requires significant effort to: determine the appropriate EPRI and utility role at each stage of development; illuminate the tradeoffs involved in connection with various levels of NER Department funding; provide for utility industry input into the program formulation and prioritization process. This report represents the Department's initial efforts at strategy formulation. In details the rationale for national and utility industry involvement in NER technology and describes the procedures currently being used to formulate EPRI programs in each of the NER technologies.

• Research Organization: Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Bethesda, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6275124
• Report Number(s): EPRI-ER-979-SY
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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299002 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Geothermal-- (-1989)
DATA FORMS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
EPRI
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
GRAPHS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
PLANNING
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SOLAR ENERGY
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS