Traces the history of the $210 billion power industry showcasing the key individuals, technological innovations, corporate machinations, and political battles waged over its domination.

In this book, Jay Brigham describes that rivalry in the West in the years before the New Deal.

A nation unprepared : surviving the aftermath of a blackout where tens of millions of people over several states are affected.

The book shows how the interactions among the Depression, New Deal politics, the promise of electricity, and diverse ideologies with the strategic and tactical maneuvers of a policy network explain the institutionalization of the TVA.

An eye-opening look at the use of coal as the energy source of the future criticizes the Bush administration's emphasis on a resource that not only already supplies more than half of America's electricity, but also has ravaged the ...

This book covers the basics of rates, components of energy purchases, and the methods and techniques required for maximizing energy savings and minimizing costs.

This text examines the tension between the social and political interests of states and the market in the case of energy policy.

This reference book provides a straightforward information resource for the electricity purchaser on how to successfully utilize retail wheeling.

Using Chicago as a test case, Harold L. Platt investigates the emergence of an urban-based, energy-intensive society over the course of half a century in this book-length history of energy use in the city.