Blackout: How the Electric Industry Exploits America
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560258128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Half of the story" according to A. J. Ritter. I recently picked up this book because I have an interest in the Electric Utility industry. Boy, was I disappointed. You have to hand it to Mr. Weil - he takes on a broad array of topics, but he never really does justice to any of them. Maybe a good editor could have focused his attention on one aspect, but it seems this is more of a self-published vanity book than a true fact-check
(July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. . Department of Energy—are sometimes at odds with this generalized approach. His sprawling, sometimes convoluted history begins with Thomas Edison's invention of the lightbulb and former Edison employee Samuel Insull's definitive approach to the business of electricity, which he refined while running the Commonwealth Electric Company in Chicago. Weil then covers the following century, leading up to the 2003 blackout and its aftermath, with a brevity that's alternately refreshing and frustrating. From Publishers Weekly With this ambitious book, Weil sets two complementary tasks for himself: to reveal many of the problems that have been hidden from the public about the electric industry, and to suggest redress. However, his final recommendations, which are largely aimed at restoring knowle
He was also the Maine Energy Director and chair of the national organization of state energy agencies.. Gordon Weil is the chairman of the Weil Consulting Group, a team of electic transmission and power supply expeters that works for customers. He was the chairman of the negotiations to create the New England single transmission system
Weil continues with the willful failure of the industry to integrate itself into the competitive marketplace; a failure in which the customer remains the biggest loser. Weil concludes that unless the government and the regulators undertake radical legislation, "lights out" remains a distinct possibility for us all.. The electricity companies involved introduced no new rules, nor a single firing — nothing. Astonishingly, no company or individual has ever been held accountable for what cost affected regions millions of dollars in lost revenue and compensation. From Canada to Philadelphia, houses were plunged into darkness, elevators stalled, subway cars ceased to run, air-conditioners shuddered into silence, and the candle-lit 1890s streets of Brooklyn became a reality once more. In the midst of the sweltering summer of August 2003, the lights went out across northeast America. Weil describes the founding of the original electric monopoly by Edison and his secretary, Insull, and reveals how and why Roosevelt's efforts to control the company's excesses failed. As Gordon Weil explores in Blackout, this was the culmination of a long history of exploitation by the electric industry of its customers, coupled with the seeming indifference and incompetence of the regulators who were supposed to protect them