Technical issues will arise across the solar energy/utility interface as the use of solar energy penetrates further into our society. These are not the issues of simply collecting solar energy or of utility energy production but those issues related to the interconnection of solar energy systems...

1 Overview -- 1.1 Goal of Book -- 1.2 Three Steps to an Energy Marketplace -- 1.3 How Will Customers Respond? -- 1.4 Energy Marketplace Operation: A Developed Country -- 1.5 Energy Marketplace Operation: A Developing Country -- 1.6 Discussion of Chapter 1 -- I: The Energy Marketplace -- Preface...

Many observers are dissatisfied with the current condition of privately owned electric utilities in the United States. Numerous proposals have been made for change, including suggestions to deregulate all or part of the industry.' Those who favor deregulation argue that electric power systems,...

Any belief that a shift from uniform to as-bid pricing would provide power purchasers substantial relief from soaring prices is simply mistaken. The immediate consequence of its introduction would be a radical change in bidding behavior that would introduce new inefficiencies, weaken competition...

Any belief that a shift from uniform to as-bid pricing would provide power purchasers substantial relief from soaring prices is simply mistaken. The immediate consequence of its introduction would be a radical change in bidding behavior that would introduce new inefficiencies, weaken competition...