EPRI: Welding Lab

Visiting EPRI Innovators

You might feel like you were with PUF editors during a special tour of the welding lab.

EPRI: Mechanical Test Lab

Visiting EPRI Innovators

EPRI's mechanical test lab is mostly focused on high-temperature testing, researching different materials that are used in the power plant.

Visiting EPRI Innovators

A Special Tour

In a day filled with wonder, PUF editors toured one of the world’s top energy labs, at EPRI’s sprawling campus in Charlotte.

1898’s Historic Speech

Talking about 1898, Samuel Insull’s historic speech, “Public Control and Private Operation,” took place on the seventh of June of that year, in Insull’s adopted town of Chicago. Here are his key words that day, that built the foundation for the regulated utility industry:

“Acute competition necessarily frightens the investor, and compels corporations to pay a very high price for capital…