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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 ...
EPAct—Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US) —Energy Policy Act of 2005 (US) EPRI—Electric Power Research Institute (US) EPSA—Electric Power Supply Association; EQR—Electric Quarterly Report; ERA—Economic Regulatory Administration (part of United States Department of Energy
The Caltrain Modernization Program (CalMod), sometimes referred to as the Caltrain Electrification Project, was a $2.44 billion project which added a positive train control (PTC) system and electrified the main line of the U.S. commuter railroad Caltrain, which serves cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley.
1 October 2024: The TWAO for the Leeds-Micklefield section of the upgrade is published. [161] October 2024: The October 2024 budget the new government confirmed support for the upgrade project. [162] 10 February 2025: AtkinsRealis selected as the main contractor for the W2B and W2C route sections of the upgrade. [163]
[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 ...
BPA's first industrial sale was to Alcoa in January 1940, to provide 32,500 kilowatts of power. [7] This, and the following 162,500 kilowatt order, led to complaints of the Bonneville Power Act's anti-monopoly clause. [7] The cheap price of aluminum from Alcoa helped aluminum sales grow in the post-World War II market. [7]
Section 3 of H.R. 267 amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to increase from 5,000 to 10,000 kilowatts the size of small hydroelectric power projects which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may exempt from its license requirements. [7] See related energy policy contained in 42 USC Chapter 134 – Energy ...