Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission with Appendix of Selected Orders in the Nature of Opinions ...
Title | Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission with Appendix of Selected Orders in the Nature of Opinions ... PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Power Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Electric power |
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Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission
Title | Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Power Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1226 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Energy facilities |
ISBN |
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Title | Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1320 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Title | Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1426 |
Release | 1977-07 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
The Grid
Title | The Grid PDF eBook |
Author | Julie A Cohn |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-12-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0262037173 |
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid's maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid—in fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systems—paying particular attention to the work of engineers and system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989—roughly the period of key power control innovations across North America. Cohn investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and competition against the backdrop of economic depression and government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events.
Opinions and Decisions, with Appendix of Selected Orders in the Nature of Opinions
Title | Opinions and Decisions, with Appendix of Selected Orders in the Nature of Opinions PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Power Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1534 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Electric power |
ISBN |
Federal Power Commission Reports
Title | Federal Power Commission Reports PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Power Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1328 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Energy facilities |
ISBN |
Contains all the formal opinions and accompanying orders of the Federal Power Commission ... In addition to the formal opinions, there have been included intermediate decisions which have become final and selected orders of the Commission issued during such period.