Acknowledgments section from the Electric Research Council's 1971 report, «
Electric Utilities Industry Research and Development Goals Through the Year 2000 ``
Not exact matches
«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these
utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S.
industry's
Electric Power
Research Institute.
Unfortunately,
research and development funding in the
electric utility industry is at an all - time low, the lowest of any major industrial sector except for pulp and paper.
A big backer is the
Electric Power
Research Institute, an arm of the
utility industry.
Scientists had begun to warn
electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's official
research and development organization had acknowledged that, «There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real.»
Scientists had begun to warn
electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's official
research and development organization had
While the science on climate change was limited compared to what we know today, by 1971
electric utilities knew enough to include
research into the «effects of CO2» in the
industry's long - term
research and development goals for through the year 2000.
Other individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the
utility and coal
industry, include Brian McCormack (formerly of the Edison
Electric Institute), David Banks (former lobbyist for Exelon), Mark Menezes (former lobbyist for Southern Company and other
utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy
Research).
Carl L. Wilkins, PE, Vice President, has extensive experience in the
electric utility industry serving in a variety of managerial,
research and consultative roles working with
electric & gas
utility companies.