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

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.

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

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.

Explains the economics of electricity at each step of the supply chain: production, transportation and distribution, and retail.

Politics of the State Grid Corporation of China -- Electricity -- From the ministry to a corporation -- Overseeing SGCC: the contested regimes of central agencies -- State Grid Corporation of China -- SGCC in action: as a policy ...

Taking us from the very beginnings of the electricity industry in the 1880s right up to the present day, Howard Hampton vividly recounts the dramatic political struggles between public and private power in both Canada and the United States, ...