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G Prioritization and Decision Making in Technology Development at the Electric Power Research Institute
Pages 169-175

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... Research Portfolios Several features of the R&D activities of EPRT and GR} are analogous to those of OST. Both EPRT and GRI develop process improvements that lessen environmental impacts and facilitate compliance with environmental regulations.
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From page 170...
... Appendix H discusses GRI's methodology and provides tables suggestive of analogies to OST within DOE-EM. ORIGIN AND PAST PRACTICES OF EPRI, 1972-1990 EPRI was set up by the electric utility industry in 1972-1973 as a response to a congressional proposal to establish a federal organization apart from the federal Energy Research and Development Agency (now DOE)
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From page 171...
... Each EPR] division and department had its own technical advisory committee, with utility representation by specialists in the respective technical areas involved.
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From page 172...
... Determination of the overall EPRI budget and allocation of budgets among the business units are longer primarily done at the board level. In the current "cafeteria style" of operation, a "menu" of proposed projects is submitted to the Board of Directors with the endorsement of the senior technical advisory committee.
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From page 173...
... The continuing discipline of requiring funding buy-in by potential users provides a continuing test of the effectiveness of these market estimates and cost-benefit calculations. Technical Advisory Committee Evaluations The project proposal, along with the market evaluation and the technical risk evaluation, is submitted to the advisory committee structure and to all of the potentially interested companies that may not be currently represented on the advisory structure.
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From page 174...
... Risk Analysis for Cost-Benefit Ratings Environmental R&D has been especially market driven due to increasing regulatory requirements and air quality standards. Each proposal is subjected to a sophisticated risk analysis for the environmental factor or pollutant involved and the expected environmental benefit if the project is fi~nded and succeeds.
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... Specific examples are the management of real-time pricing of power supply and power quality issues such as reliability, freedom from damaging harmonics, and voltage stability. A number of utilities are also providing specialized telecommunications services.
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