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Modernizing America's electricity infrastructure / Mason Willrich.

By: Willrich, Mason [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262342407.Subject(s): Electric power -- Government policy -- United States | Electric power transmission -- Government policy -- United States | Electric power distribution -- Government policy -- United States | Electric power distribution -- Government policy | Electric power -- Government policy | Electric power transmission -- Government policy | United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.793/20973 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The past -- From start-up to disintegration -- Post-World War II electrification : recovery, growth, and prosperity -- Energy crisis : electricity becomes an increasing-cost industry -- The public utility holding company act of 1935 repealed -- amen -- Publicly owned utilities -- Summary -- The present -- Electric infrastructure : ownership and operation -- Electric industry policy -- Developing a strategy for the future -- Why a national strategy -- Electricity consumption -- Distribution system and distributed energy resources -- Wholesale power markets and transmission -- Power generation : large scale -- Advanced coal : IGCCc pluss CCS? -- Nuclear power : carbon-free option? -- Public power : a path forward -- Cross cutting issues -- A strategy for modernizing America's energy infrastructure -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index.
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The past -- From start-up to disintegration -- Post-World War II electrification : recovery, growth, and prosperity -- Energy crisis : electricity becomes an increasing-cost industry -- The public utility holding company act of 1935 repealed -- amen -- Publicly owned utilities -- Summary -- The present -- Electric infrastructure : ownership and operation -- Electric industry policy -- Developing a strategy for the future -- Why a national strategy -- Electricity consumption -- Distribution system and distributed energy resources -- Wholesale power markets and transmission -- Power generation : large scale -- Advanced coal : IGCCc pluss CCS? -- Nuclear power : carbon-free option? -- Public power : a path forward -- Cross cutting issues -- A strategy for modernizing America's energy infrastructure -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index.

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