EPRI Journal articles from July 1995

EPRI Journal archives from July 1995

New record set for superconducting wire.
July 1, 1995... The newest member of EPRI's Advanced Superconductor Wire Initiative has set a record for current-carrying capacity in a high-temperature superconducting material. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory announced...

Measuring the cost of transmission service. (electric power transmission)
July 1, 1995... THE STORY IN BRIEF - Recently proposed federal rules would require public utilities to provide open access to their transmission systems for wholesale power transactions by third parties and to post tariffs for transmission services that would...

Diversification in the '90s. (electric utilities)
July 1, 1995... THE STORY IN BRIEF - The electric utility industry has entered a period of active involvement in new business ventures. This new wave of diversification, which has swept up all types of utilities from rural electric cooperatives to investor-owned...

Developing countries on a power drive. (electrification drive in developing countries)
July 1, 1995... Between now and the year 2020, according to some estimates, as much new power generating capacity will be installed around the world as was built in the entire past century. But in a historic shift that reflects a changing global pattern of...

The greenhouse connection.
July 1, 1995... Against the backdrop of booming power generation markets in many developing countries is the ongoing worldwide debate about the changing global pattern of emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and about the control of future...

A role for EPRI? (Electric Power Research Institute)
July 1, 1995... Beyond the over half a dozen memo randums of understanding EPRI has signed with Indian government and industrial organizations to establish relationships and pursue specific projects, a broader strategy is in the works. "There is much that...

Solutions to voltage sag problems.
July 1, 1995... Equipment sensitivity to voltage sags has become the most important power quality concern of the 1990s. Voltage sags are defined as any reduction in ac voltage up to, but not including, the complete loss of ac power as in an interruption or...