Electric Power Industry: In Nontechnical Language (PennWell Non-technical Series) | 
| Author: Denise Warkentin
Publisher: Pennwell Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 239
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0878147195
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7932
EAN: 9780878147199
ASIN: 0878147195
Publication Date: May 1998
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Product Description
The electric power industry is undergoing the greatest transformation in its 100-year history. In readable, concise fashion author Denise Warkentin explains how the electric industry works! After briefly tracing the history of the industry, she details shareholder-owned, consumer-owned utilities, as well as rural cooperatives and independent power producers. Other issues addressed include deregulation, the emergence of energy marketers, and the flurry of mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations now ongoing.
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 Needs a careful edit May 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, the book starts off with too many simple editing errors and that made me fearful of the accuracy of the remaining text. I returned the book. For example, page 4 (this is the second page of the book after the preface) refers to year 2003 utility expense data listed in a table on the opposite page. However, the table has no data for 2003. The author also confuses millions of dollars with billions of dollars when walking the reader through major utility expenses in this section of the book. That's a big editing oversight in the initial pages. I think this could be a very useful book for someone like myself trying to get an understanding of the electric power industry, but it needs tightening up.
 Great overview for the beginnger March 28, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Gives a great general overview for anyone that is wanting to get into the electric business.
 Good introduction, buty September 8, 2001
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
The author does a good job in relaying how US's electrical utilities work and how the deregulation and changing market affects the industry. So far this is the most comprehensive book I have found on the topic to date. However the text could stand to be reworked to become more readable as the author almost struggles to express the technology in layman's terms. The book also suffers from being divided into three parts. It results in some annoying repetition and makes it difficult to use the book as a reference. The author, however, has included a very informative appendix explaining the technical terms plus an appendix with names and addresses of resources. That alone makes the book invaluable for somebody getting into the field.
Very informative for those new to the industry. February 23, 2001
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is actually a very good book. I've been an electrician in the Navy for about 9 years. After recently getting hired on by a company that is right in the middle of the "deregulation" situation in California. I've been entered into a pretty intensive training program, where we are required to learn about the enire process. In fact it's a pretty dynamic atmosphere, considering what's going on here in Cali. Well if you've never seen an inkling of this information, it's quite a lot to grab at first.This book, does a very good job of laying down industry terms, and explaining them where even someone with no idea of what's going on will have a pretty good picture after completing the book. Another good note to add is that sometimes the topic can have some dry spells, but the book does a good job of keeping the reader awake and interested. The author is well educated and has a good insight on what could become the future of the industry. I recieved the book through my company and in fact it is required reading for us. All in all, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in, or is new and up and coming in the industry.
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