PRI offers on-line energy scenarios

If you had a crystal ball to predict the future for the energy industry, what choices would you make today to ensure you saw that future? The Electric Power Research Institute has recently unveiled four new scenarios to give the energy industry’s top decision makers a glimpse of the future with a hope to guide critical decisions in the present.

By Staff May 1, 2006

If you had a crystal ball to predict the future for the energy industry, what choices would you make today to ensure you saw that future? The Electric Power Research Institute has recently unveiled four new scenarios to give the energy industry’s top decision makers a glimpse of the future with a hope to guide critical decisions in the present.

The scenarios explore a range of technologies critical to meet future energy needs, given 100 market drivers with a high potential impact on the evolution of the U.S. energy and electric power industries including: fuel prices, environmental policies, and the availability of natural resources. These scenarios serve as planning tools for utility executives to strategically prioritize technological improvements to yield the most benefit in the future.

For more information on these scenarios or EPRI, visit www.epri.com .