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NSF/EPRI Workshop to Explore Electric Power SolutionsThe National Science Foundation (NSF) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will host a workshop October 10-12, 2001, in Palo Alto, Calif., to explore technical means for solving California's ongoing electricity problems and meeting future global needs. The workshop will address the need to improve the U.S. electricity infrastructure, as discussed in President Bush's National Energy Policy. In the next 10 years, demand for electric power is expected to increase by about 25 percent while current plans call for electric transmission capacity to increase by only 4 percent. The event brings together researchers who study transmission
capacity and bottlenecks, competitiveness in an open
market, and vulnerabilities of the power infrastructure
to disruptions such as natural disasters, equipment
failures and sabotage. Brazilian experts will present
new technologies that have been successful in Brazil
and offer both short-term and long-term potential
to help balance U.S. supply and demand and lower electricity
prices.
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