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Author:

Galvin, Robert.

Title:

Perfect power : how the microgrid revolution will unleash cleaner, greener, and more abundant energy / Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager ; with Jay Stuller.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Electric power-plants--Environmental aspects--United States.
Electric power-plants--Efficiency--United States.
Energy development--United States.
Electric power distribution--United States.
Clean energy investment--United States.

Other Authors:

Yeager, Kurt E.
Stuller, Jay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the electric imperative -- Guiding the path to perfect power -- The heat is on -- The grid -- Electrifying the world -- The Edison paradox -- The path to perfect power -- Smarter than the average building and car -- Rewiring Siegel Hall for perfect power -- The blank canvas of Mesa Del Sol -- Changing the rules of the game, honorably -- Consumers at the controls -- Creating a green-collar revolution: new companies and new jobs -- Coda -- Glossary of technical terms.

ISBN:

0071548823
9780071548823

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)