The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has recently released a preliminary report that develops four scenarios that explore a range of technologies critical to meet future energy needs, given 100 market drivers with a high potential impact on the evolution of the U.S. energy and electric power industries.
The scenarios provide an insight as to the trade-offs that might be made with differing environmental polices, fuel prices, the economy, etc. as they would effect usage of items such as coal power, nuclear power, distributed power, grid reinforcement, use of energy storage, fuel cells and use plug-in vehicles.
Rather than predict the future, these scenarios serve as planning tools for utility executives to strategically prioritize technological improvements to yield the most benefit in the future.
Don't expect any magic answers or details of technologies, just a discussion of some interesting possibilities. The answer is not in any one scenario, but some combination of the four. It may be boring to many, but I found it interesting to consider the various possibilities.
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Thanks for the link!
Posted by: JN2 | April 12, 2006 at 04:47 AM
Yeah, thanks Jim! I'll be very curious to read this ... once my thesis work slows down and I have time for something else to read. Cheers...
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