EPRI Journal looks back 40 years at the electricity sector and research
The Research Agenda in 1979
A feature article called “Scanning the Research Agenda” in the January/February 1979 issue of EPRI Journal describes 30 representative projects to reveal the scope and direction of EPRI’s research. These included:
- Refining demand and supply forecast models
- Developing models that help electric system planners account for uncertainties in customer demand, generation mix, and capital and fuel costs
- Designing reliable nuclear fusion reactors
- Designing residential solar heating and cooling systems
- Developing liquid fuels from coal
- Demonstrating a 4.5-megawatt fuel cell power plant
- Monitoring air pollutants
- Investigating ecological effects of power plant cooling systems
- Investigating effects of high-voltage electromagnetic fields on plants and animals