Brochure on EPRI Energy/Water Sustainability Research Program Available
“Power Generation and Water Sustainability:  Technical Brief – A Research Program for the Electric Power Industry” (1015444).  This four-page brochure summarizes the main points of EPRI’s 10-year energy/water sustainability research plan for the electric power industry.  It discusses the five major elements of the program:  engineering and economic analysis, improving dry and hybrid cooling, reducing water losses from cooling towers, use of degraded waters, and water resources management and forecasting.  The total cost of the proposed research program is anticipated to be about $37.5 million over a 10-year period.  The potential benefits of using the technologies to be developed as part of this program would be substantial at the plant level.  Implementing one or more of these technologies at a 350-MW baseload coal facility could raise profit margins by an estimated 1–3 percentage points.  Cumulative benefits on an industrywide basis could exceed $700 million by 2030.  For more information, contact Robert Goldstein, (650) 855-2593, rogoldst@epri.com.