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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducts research on issues of interest to the electric power industry in the USA. EPRI is an independent, nonprofit organization funded by the electric utility industry. Although EPRI is primarily a US organization, it receives international participation. EPRI's area of interest covers most aspects of electric power generation, delivery and use.
Following Senate hearings in the early 1970s on the lack of R&D supporting the power industry, all sectors of the U.S.
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducts research on issues of interest to the electric power industry in the USA. EPRI is an independent, nonprofit organization funded by the electric utility industry. Although EPRI is primarily a US organization, it receives international participation. EPRI's area of interest covers most aspects of electric power generation, delivery and use.
Following Senate hearings in the early 1970s on the lack of R&D supporting the power industry, all sectors of the U.S. electricity industry—public, private, and cooperative—voluntarily pooled their funds to begin one of the first and most successful industry-wide collaborative R&D programs in the world. EPRI was formally established in 1973 as the Electric Power Research Institute. It was created as an independent, nonprofit organization designed to manage a broad public-private collaborative research program on behalf of the electric utility industry, the industry’s customers, and society at large.
Underlying EPRI’s creation was recognition of the profound and beneficial impact of electricity on modern life.
EPRI’s R&D program spans virtually every aspect of generation, environmental protection, power delivery, retail use, and power markets. Today, EPRI provides solutions and services to more than 1000 energy-related organizations in 40 countries.
EPRI has more than 900 patents to its credit.
EPRI laid the groundwork in the 1970s for the use of power electronics in the utility system, sometimes known as FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems).
EPRI established the largest electric and magnetic fields health program in the world and played a pivotal role in resolving scientific questions concerning potential links to cancer.
EPRI is in the Advisory Council of the PHEV Research Center.
EPRI created the world’s largest center for nondestructive testing, used first for nuclear inspection and now increasingly for internal diagnostics of fossil power plants and industrial systems.
EPRI champions the use of all generation technologies which are efficient, reliable, safe, and environmentally benign. Research on clean coal technologies and the safe application of nuclear power plants are considered in a portfolio of alternatives to meet the carbon-constrained future, along with programs for energy efficiency, demand side management, and plug-in-hybrid electric vehicles, and energy storage technologies. The organization sees renewables such as wind and solar as playing an important role. However, it recognizes the operational issues caused by large scale integration of the highly variable or intermittent renewable generation, and proposes the development of large scale energy storage plants for complimenting renewable generation. .
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