Features

• Managing the Smart Grid? Looking at Apps for That  (PDF 248KB)

  The revolution that is bringing the digital world to the palm of your hand also is handing utilities the opportunity to solve some traditional problems ... with "apps."

• Water + Chemistry = Solution  (PDF 190KB)

  Research, innovation, shared experience, and old-fashioned vigilance lead to more effective chemical treatments and guidelines that reflect the state of the art for power plant water chemistry.

• Oxy-Combustion for Carbon Capture  (PDF 224KB)

  EPRI is helping utilities better understand oxygen-fired combustion, which produces a flue gas rich in CO2 that can be more easily purified and compressed before transport and storage.

• Smart Grid Demonstrations Focus on Integrating Distributed Energy Resources  (PDF 232KB)

  The seven-year international collaborative effort involves 11 host sites, with projects focused on such resources as photo-voltaics, smart charging of electric vehicles, and demand response.

• Leading with Authority  (PDF 232KB)

  Tennessee Valley Authority Chief Operating Officer Bill McCollum talks about the business case for nuclear, the technology, and TVA's slate of activities, including its push to return an idled unit to service and complete construction of a mothballed unit.

  
  

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