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In 1972, at a formal hearing of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Starr presented a vision for the Electric Power Research Institute to serve Congress's mandate for objective, scientific research. [3] Starr served as the first President of EPRI for five years and formally retired at age 65, but continued to work at EPRI for the next 30 years. [4]
Nuclear Waste Policy Act: First comprehensive nuclear waste legislation. 1989 Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989: Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to declare that the price guidelines for the first sale of natural gas. 1992 Energy Policy Act: Required alternative fuel vehicle use in some private/government fleets. 2005 Energy ...
The Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (S.4753) is a bill in the United States Senate to reform the permitting system for fossil fuel and electric power transmission development. [1] It is one of the several iterations of permitting reform brought forth by the 118th Congress.
The National Power Corporation (Filipino: Pambansang Korporasyon sa Elektrisidad, also known as NAPOCOR, NPC or National Power) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation that is mandated to provide electricity to all rural areas of the Philippines by 2025 (known as "missionary electrification"), to manage water resources for power generation, and to optimize the use of other ...
GM is still targeting $280 billion in total sales by 2030 — more than double that of 2021 sales — in part due to expectations around EVs. "We still believe in an all-electric future," Barra said.
The Bonneville Project, named for the then-new Bonneville Dam, was established by an act of Congress that was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 20, 1936. The federal agency was created to market electricity from the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams based on the model of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
This list of countries by electrification rate sorts countries by the share of their inhabitants with access to electricity. Access to electricity is considered one of the prerequisites for a modern life.
[5] [6] [7] Yablochkov candles required high voltage, and it was not long before experimenters reported that the arc lamps could be powered on a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) circuit. [8] Within a decade scores of cities would have lighting systems using a central power plant that provided electricity to multiple customers via electrical transmission ...