One of my first jobs out of college involved editing technical manuals for the Electric Power Research Institute.

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However, Paul Grant, a superconductivity expert at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, remains cautious.

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Personal story: One of my first jobs out of college involved editing technical manuals for the Electric Power Research Institute, a research and development consortium for electric utilities.

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Indeed, the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif.

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The benchmark study, by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), found that plug-in hybrids are cleaner than regular cars in each of nine scenarios.

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Allan Manne of Stanford University and Richard Richels, who works at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded policy research group based in Palo Alto, California, have been studying this idea.

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Today's bigger turbines are taller, with blades that spin more slowly, so that birds can more easily see the blades and avoid them, says Chuck McGowin, of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.

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In a survey that should come as a surprise to no one, 95 percent of people polled in Southern California say they would prefer to charge their electric vehicle at home, according to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

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