I ca oI E d o Id d ENERGY Nuclear Plant Performan c e / Up date : Date Tbrough Dec. 31,1976,by Charles Komanoff and Nancy Brewer, CEP Publication R7-1, inquire as to Price from: Council on Economic Priorities 84 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 or 250 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA94133 An update of their pr.uiorrs report (see Jrne'77 RAIN, p. 10), including 1976 data, the main finding being that the average capacity factor for all U.S. nuclear plants has deteriorated further, from 59.3% to 57 .5%. All this from actual historical records rather than the nuclear industry and utilities, who keep using an 80% availabrlity, which makes nukes look cheaper than coal, wind, solar, etc. Useful to intervenors and public utility commissions. -LJ EPRI Journal, monthly, free to member utilities, inquire as to single copy price from: Electric Power Research Institute P.O. Box 10412 Palo Alto, CA 9+303 "Load Management" article in the May '77 issue is a clearly-written state-of-theart summary of what is known about electric load shifting, its relation to energv conservation-wind-solar, and whaiiesearch and application is now being done bY EPRI, ERDA' FEA' the Edison Electric Institute and numerous foreign countries. Excellent primer with good charts and graphs to re.move the mystery from this cost-effective method of saving energy bY moving oeak loads around. Solar and wind ln.rgy fans will find it useful in underrt"nling why off-peak storage capability is vital. -LJ Hydroelectric Pouter, $2 from' Independent Power DeveloPers Box 1467 Noxon, MT 59853 Bill Delp's new catalog is more than a listing of the small-scale hydroelectric systems and components he now has available. It's a short course in figuring out the power you have available, what you need for various applications, how to choose systems and the economics of small hydroelectric systems. Just for electricity, such systems can't yet compete with grid electricity', but for isolated locations or where vou can use th. system for water suppiv, fire protection and irrigation as well as ior electricitv, it's a different ballgame! -.'t'B Methane on tbe Mozte: A Discussion of Small Anaerobic Digesters, Stsan Schellenbach, et al., 1977, $2'oO ftom, Bio-Gas of Colorado, Inc. 5620 Kendall Court, Unit G Arvada, CO 80002 First section describes a 6000-ga11on mobile digcster, its start-up' oPeration, gas production and problems. Second iection is a discussion of the tour of 19 demonstration sites in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. The final section consists of designs for 4 sizes of digesters based on data collected from the mobile unit, the tour and the lab, along with an order blank for shop drawings of the digesters. -LJ RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 97210 Foruarding and Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR
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