Knowing what I know now I would be hesitant to take a job with EPRI as a young engineer looking to have a 40 year career with this company. I am not sure about the long term viability of EPRI’s current businesses model. EPRI is now pursuing international and government work to try and stay ahead of this trend. As a result the number of paying members, especially in the US has declined. Every time this happens we lose one large member that was paying the maximum rate. The trend in the industry now is for large energy companies to merge. The cost of membership was capped once a company was above a certain size. The cost of the membership was determined by the size of the company and the number of different technical programs purchased. EPRI is a an organization where energy companies buy annual memberships. The other issue stem from the power industry itself. We recently have been hiring individuals from academia or from government agencies, most of not all of whom have little to no actual power generation experience. EPRI used to mainly hire mid-career industry professionals. MATS emission factors (xlsx) (XLSX 563 K) NOTE: Click on the "OPEN" button and it will take a few minutes to open.I feel EPRI is losing much of its hands on industry expertise. These emissions factors have NOT gone through EPA public comment and review and therefore, should NOT be used for any purpose other than for development of the NEI. These factors were derived using an early version of EPA’s Draft 2013 Recommended Procedures for Development of Emissions Factors. These emissions factors were developed using about 200 of the over 400 stack test data that were collected as part of the Information Collection Requests (ICR’s) issued as part of the development of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule. To assist State and local agencies in compiling data that is needed for purposes of developing the National Emissions Inventory (NEI), EPA developed emissions factors for Electric Generating Units (EGUs). Information about updates, changes or enhancements to the system, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) will be posted on this page. More information about the ERT data is available on the Search WebFIRE page. When ready to submit your software for a Preproduction test or the Final Acceptance test, review the testing submittal packages checklist. This website provides guidance and assistance to software Project Managers and Software Developers developing software products for EPRI. This information is shared with WebFIRE and is available to the public. Welcome to the EPRI Software Development Website. Beginning January 1, 2012, industries are required to submit their source test data to EPA using the ERT application. WebFIRE includes data submitted to EPA from the Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT). For each recommended emissions factor and individual data value, WebFIRE contains descriptive information such as industry and source category type, control device information, the pollutants emitted, and supporting documentation. In addition, WebFIRE contains the individual data values used to develop the recommended factors and other data submitted to EPA by federal, state, tribal, and local agencies consultants and industries. The WebFIRE database contains EPA’s recommended emissions factors for criteria and hazardous air pollutants (HAP) for industrial and non-industrial processes. WebFIRE is EPA’s online emissions factor repository, retrieval, and development tool.
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