Power: The FEA on productivity: How the U.S. Federal Energy Administration recommends improving power plant efficiency and productivity

The primary thrust of the Federal Energy Administration's Report on Improving the Productivity of Electric Powerplants, published in March 1975, is “to reduce our dependence on foreign oil supplies by increasing our reliance on coal and uranium “our most abundant domestic energy resources.” By keeping this goal in the forefront, the FEA task force that prepared the study believes that the inevitable fallout will be greater generation productivity and concomitant increases in overall system reliability and efficiency in fuel/energy use — plus the bonus incentive of substantial cost economies.