EPRI Journal
The EPRI Journal is the flagship publication of the Electric Power Research Institute. It is published for a broad readership and reports on the substance and relevance of EPRI's work, offering insight on issues of importance to the electric power industry and society in general.
Current Issue:
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The Smart Grid: Coming of Age
(PDF 4.8MB)
Fall 2009
Inside this Issue:
Viewpoint
- The Prism in Action (PDF 167KB)
Features
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The Smart Grid: Coming of Age (PDF 299KB)
Three forward-looking companies show how the smart grid is allowing them to break new ground in reliability, efficiency, and customer value.
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Improved maintenance practices, novel sensors, and risk-based analytic techniques will help prevent failures and maximize transformer life and performance.
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EPRI is evaluating an array of technologies for removing trace metals from scrubber wastewater, including passive treatment systems such as vertical flow wetlands.
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Cycling Baseload Plants (PDF 208KB)
EPRI is working with member utilities to minimize the serious cost and reliability impacts of using baseload plants for cycling duty.
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Two new nuclear generating units being built at South Carolina Electric & Gas signal the U.S. nuclear industry’s emergence from a decades-long construction haitus.
Departments
- Shaping the Future (PDF 202KB)
- Dateline EPRI (PDF 2.67MB)
- Innovation (PDF 145KB)
- In Development (PDF 160KB)
- In the Field (PDF 142KB)
- Technology at Work (PDF 176PDF)
- Reports and Software (PDF 94KB)
- Wired In (PDF 115KB)
