Electric Power Industry in Nontechnical Language

Product Description: In the second edition of this bestseller, Denise Warkentin-Glenn presents in everyday language the nuances, history, and recent developments of the electric power industry. This new version includes updated information on utilities, merchant plants, rural cooperatives, government entities and more. It also has new chapters covering the 2005 Energy Policy Act, environmental standards, and updates to industry mergers and acquisitions. This important edition gives a comprehensive look at our country’s most critical economic driver. Key Features: Impacts of new regulation/ Simple and clear explanations of generation, transmission and governance/ How cleaner fuels and new technology are transforming the industry/ The newest environmental standards

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In the second edition of this bestseller, Denise Warkentin-Glenn presents in everyday language the nuances, history, and recent developments of the electric power industry. This new version includes updated information on utilities, merchant plants, rural cooperatives, government entities and more. It also has new chapters covering the 2005 Energy Policy Act, environmental standards, and updates to industry mergers and acquisitions. This important edition gives a comprehensive look at our country’s most critical economic driver.

Key Features: Impacts of new regulation/ Simple and clear explanations of generation, transmission and governance/ How cleaner fuels and new technology are transforming the industry/ The newest environmental standards

306 pages, Hardcover
Published March 2006
ISBN: 1593700679
ISBN-13: 9781593700676