Smart Utility

How automation empowers O&M teams to do more with less. Electric utility field crews are being pulled in two directions at once. On the one hand, the grid is expanding and becoming more complex, as distributed generation, battery storage, and extreme-weather hardening projects add thousands of new assets to the maintenance roster. 

Covering generation to distribution, this book provides a practical guide to the electrical power industry. Starting with an explanation of electricity, how it works, and why it works that way, the book moves on to a history of the industry that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity and finishes regulations, grid reliability, markets, and future challenges.