The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry

by Jeremiah D. Lambert

Book Overview

How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring.

For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529785
• ISBN13: 9780262529785
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher