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Modernizing America's electricity infrastructure / Mason Willrich.

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A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services. America's aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly even as the need for highly reliabl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Willrich, Mason (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
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 States.
Table of 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  • The public utility holding company act of 1935 repealed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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