Selling Power

Selling Power
Author: John L. Neufeld
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022639963X

The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"--Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940