Public Utilities in Modern Life
| Author | : Samuel Insull |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Public utilities |
| ISBN | : |
Public Utilities In Modern Life
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Public Utilities, Second Edition
| Author | : David E. McNabb |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2016-10-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1785365533 |
A thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, water, wastewater systems and public transit.
Energy Democracy
| Author | : Denise Fairchild |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2017-10-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1610918517 |
The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having cataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color. Energy democracy tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movement with broader movements for social and economic change in this country and around the world. Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives to show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like. The book will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future
| Author | : Fereidoon Sioshansi |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0128043202 |
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution network and customer side. Trends like the rapid rise of self-generation and distributed generation, microgrids, demand response, the dissemination of electric vehicles and zero-net energy buildings that promise to turn many consumers into prosumers are discussed. The book brings together authors from industry and academic backgrounds to present their original, cutting-edge and thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector. The book's first part lays out the present scenario, with concepts such as an integrated grid, microgrids, self-generation, customer-centric service, and pricing, while the second part focuses on how innovation, policy, regulation, and pricing models may come together to form a new electrical sector, exploring the reconfiguring of the current institutions, new rates design in light of changes to retail electricity markets and energy efficiency, and the cost and benefits of integration of distributed or intermittent generation, including coupling local renewable energy generation with electric vehicle fleets. The final section projects the future function and role of existing electrical utilities and newcomers to this sector, looking at new pathways for business and pricing models, consumer relations, technology, and innovation. - Contains discussions that help readers understand the underlying causes and drivers of change in the electrical sector, and what these changes mean in financial, operational, and regulatory terms - Provides thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector - Helps readers anticipate what developments are likely to define the function and role of the utility of the future
Public Utilities
| Author | : David E. McNabb |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781845426811 |
Professor McNabb has produced an excellent overview of the management challenges facing public utilities in the 21st century. His description of the evolution, changes, and challenges of different types of utilities is insightful. What makes this book uniquely valuable is his addressing the variety of utility management responsibilities including human resources, information services, and strategic planning in a single volume. I recommend it highly. Jeffrey Showman, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, US An introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in three sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, and water and wastewater systems. Beginning with a brief overview of the historical development of the industry, the author looks at policy issues and discusses management ethics. He then examines a number of the major challenges in these organizational functions: management and leadership, planning, marketing, accounting and finance, information technology, governance, and human resources. In the final section of the volume he looks at issues specific to each of the three industry sectors. Accessible and comprehensive, this thoughtful exploration of the various issues facing managers in public utilities in the new century will prove a useful overview for students of business and economics, utility staff, and directors of local utility governing boards.
Edison to Enron
| Author | : Robert L. Bradley, Jr. |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2011-10-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1118192516 |
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas." —Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston "... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry." —Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told." —Forrest McDonald, Historian
Current Issues in Public Utilities and Public Policy
| Author | : Fumitoshi Mizutani |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2023-01-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9811974896 |
This book is novel in that it reveals significant issues of economics, management and business fields currently observed in network industries such as public utilities and transportation, and provides empirical evidence of their mechanisms and policy implications from various perspectives. This is a holistic collection of literature on public utilities economics and management, since the industries discussed include a wide range such as electricity, water supply, sewerage, transport, and postal service, which compound social infrastructure as public benefit service, and the issues examined contain not only economics topics such as cost, efficiency, and productivity, but also management topics such as governance, strategy and organizational restructuring. The book also investigates general private companies to derive future implications for policy and governance of public utilities, and covers multiple countries such as Japan, the US, and Vietnam. It demonstrates various empirical approaches and methodologies for public utility analysis through 17 chapters by experts in each field, which contributes to further cultivation of empirical studies in public utilities.
The Regulation of Public Utilities
| Author | : Charles Franklin Phillips |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 938 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Regulatory Finance
| Author | : Roger A. Morin |
| Publisher | : Public Utilities Reports |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Capital |
| ISBN | : 9780910325462 |
This comprehensive text offers practical techniques for estimating cost of capital and determining optimal capital structure...Economists, attorneys, accountants, CFOs, and regulators will find this book of great value in everything from preparing testimony and cross-examinations, to doing capital budgeting and strategic planning.
