Power/energy: EPRI's first decade: The power utility industry's R&D association today concentrates less on long-term research and more on implementable, money-saving technologies

It is not easy to work for 530 bosses, but the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been doing it successfully for the last nine years. From a modest start with two employees and an annual budget of $11 million in January 1973, EPRI has grown in Palo Alto, Calif., to 720 staff members with $310 million to work with in 1983.