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FRANK DELEA is retired from Consolidated Edison Company, where he had a wide range of assignments giving him insight into planning, operational, financial, organizational, and legal issues. He was the company's chief electric planning engineer, its chief forecast engineer, its first project manager for rate cases, and a corporate planning director. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Since his retirement, Delea has conducted many short courses in technical, business, and regulatory issues relating to electric power systems for non-engineers.
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface To The 2nd Edition | |
| List of Figures | |
| Benefits Of Electric Power And A History Of The Electric Power Industry | |
| Societal Benefits Of Electricity | |
| Origin Of The Industry | |
| The Development Of The National Electric Power Grid | |
| "The Golden Age" | |
| Blackouts And The Reliability Crisis | |
| The Environmental Crises - The Shift To Low Sulfur Oil | |
| The Fuel Crisis - The Shift From Oil | |
| The Financial Crisis | |
| The Legislative And Regulatory Crisis | |
| Global Warming Crisis And Concerns About Carbon Emissions | |
| Restructuring, Competition And The Industry Ownership Structure | |
| The Electric Power System | |
| The Customers | |
| Sources Of The Electric Energy - Generation | |
| The Delivery System | |
| Interconnections | |
| The Grid | |
| Basic Electric Power Concepts | |
| Electric Energy | |
| Concepts Relating To The Flow Of Electricity | |
| Direct Current | |
| Alternating Current | |
| Three Phases | |
| Synchronism | |
| Characteristics Of Ac Systems | |
| Resistance | |
| Induction and Inductive Reactance | |
| Capacitance and Capacitive Reactance | |
| Impedance | |
| OHM'S Law For Alternating Current | |
| Power In Alternating Current Circuits | |
| Real Power | |
| Reactive Power | |
| Transformers | |
| POWER FLOW | |
| Division of Power Flow | |
| Voltage Drop and Reactive Power Flow | |
| Stability | |
| Steady state instability | |
| Voltage instability | |
| Transient instability | |
| Automatic Generation Controls (AGC) | |
| Dynamic instability | |
| Electric Energy Consumption | |
| End-Uses For Electricity | |
| Customer Classes | |
| RATE CLASSES | |
| DEmand And Energy | |
| Effects of Load Diversity | |
| System Load | |
| Load Management | |
| Reactive Load | |
| Losses And Unaccounted For Energy In The Delivery System | |
| Forecasts | |
| Electric Power - Generation And Concerns About Greenhouse Gases | |
| Generation'S Role | |
| Types Of Generation | |
| Thermal Conversion - Using Fuel As The Energy Resource | |
| Steam cycle - Steam turbines | |
| Combustion (Gas) Turbines | |
| Combined Cycle | |
| Nuclear | |
| Reciprocating Engines | |
| Micro Turbines | |
| Combined Heat and Power (CHP) or Co generation | |
| Thermal Conversion - Non Fuel Heat Sources | |
| Geothermal | |
| Solar Thermal Generation | |
| Mechanical Energy Conversion | |
| Hydro turbines and Hydro Pumped Storage | |
| Wind turbines | |
| Distributed Generation and Other Sources | |
| Renewable Technologies And Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |
| Supply Side Options to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |
| Financial Options to Reduce Carbon Emissions | |
| Characteristics Of Generating Plants | |
| Size | |
| Efficiency | |
| Availability | |
| Schedulable and Unschedulable Units | |
| Capital Cost Of Generation | |
| Generator Life Extension | |
| The Technology Of Generation | |
| Synchronous Generators | |
| Variable Frequency and Direct Current Generation | |
| System Needs And Evaluation Of Intermittent Resources | |
| The Technology Of The Electric Transmission System | |
| Components | |
| Hvac | |
| Overhead Lines | |
| Overhead Line Capability -Ratings | |
| Transmission Cable | |
| Cable Capacity | |
| Submarine Cables | |
| Superconducting Cables | |
| Substations | |
| Substation Equipment | |
| Substation Circuit Breaker Arrangements | |
| Transmission System Aging | |
| HVDC | |
| Advantages Of Ac Over Dc Operation | |
| Advantages of HVDC | |
| Disadvantages of HVDC | |
| Knowledge Required Of Transmission System | |
| Distribution | |
| Function Of Distribution | |
| Primary Distribution Feeders | |
| Radial systems | |
| Loop systems | |
| Primary network systems | |
| Secondary Systems | |
| Distribution Capacity | |
| Losses | |
| Distribution Facility Ratings | |
| Metering | |
| Control Of Distribution Voltages | |
| Distribution Transformers | |
| Voltage Regulators | |
| Capacitors | |
| Distribution System Reliability | |
| Quality Of Service | |
| Design Of Distribution Systems | |
| Distributed Generation | |
| Operation Of Distribution Systems | |
| Smart Grid And Microgrids | |
| Energy Storage And Other New Technologies | |
| Energy Storage | |
| Benefits of Energy Storage to Generation | |
| Benefits of Energy Storage to Transmission and Distribution | |
| Energy Storage Concepts And Technologies | |
| Mechanical Systems | |
| Hydro pumped storage | |
| Compressed Air Energy Storage | |
| Flywheels | |
| Thermal Energy Storage | |
| Storage of Low-Grade Heat | |
| Storage of High-Grade Heat | |
| Chemical Energy Storage | |
| Batteries | |
| Hydrogen energy storage systems | |
| Electrical Storage | |
| Capacitors and Supercapacitor | |
| Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage | |
| Power Conversion Equipment | |
| The Future for Energy Storage | |
| Smart Grid | |
| Microgrids | |
| New Nuclear Plant Designs | |
| Carbon Sequestration And Clean Coal Technologies | |
| Superconductors | |
| Reliability | |
| Causes Of Outages | |
| Costs Of Power Outages | |
| Ways To Measure Reliability | |
| Planning And Operating A Reliable And Adequate Power System | |
| Generation | |
| Transmission | |
| Distribution | |
| Summary | |
| The Physical Network: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Nerc) And Its Standards | |
| Nerc As Electric Reliability Organization | |
| Nerc?S Standards | |
| Functional Model | |
| Development Of Standards | |
| Reliability Principles | |
| Market Interface Principles | |
| Compliance with NERC Standards | |
| Other NERC Responsibilities | |
| The Future | |
| The Physical Network: Operation Of The Electric Bulk Power System | |
| Balancing Authorities | |
| Operating Reserves | |
| Reliability Coordinators | |
| Transmission Operators | |
| Power Transfer Limits | |
| Determination of Total Transfer Capability | |
| Parallel Path Flow and Loop Flow | |
| Reduction of Power Transfers - Congestion Management | |
| Ancillary Services | |
| Voltage and Reactive Control | |
| Potential Emergencies | |
| Preventative Philosophy | |
| Corrective Philosophy | |
| Operating Emergencies | |
| Information Exchange | |
| The Physical Network - Planning Of The Electric Bulk Power System | |
| Planning Standards | |
| Generation Planning | |
| Transmission Planning | |
| Transmission System Planning Studies | |
| Power Flow Studies | |
| Stability Studies | |
| Short-Circuit Duty Studies | |
| LEAST COST Planning | |
| The New Planning Environment | |
| Recent Transmission Projects | |
| The Regulatory Network - Legislation | |
| Pricing And Regulation | |
| Federal Legislation | |
| Federal Utility Holding Company Act (Puhca) | |
| Federal Power Act | |
| Other 1930 Federal Laws | |
| Department Of Energy Organization Act | |
| Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (Purpa) | |
| Energy Policy Act Of 1992 (Epact02) | |
| FPA Modifications | |
| The Energy Policy Act Of 2005 (Epact05) | |
| The Energy Independence And Security Act Of 2007 | |
| Environmental Laws | |
| The Regulatory Network: The Regulators | |
| The Regulators | |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) | |
| Environmental Protection Agency (Epa) | |
| Department Of Energy (Doe) | |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Nrc) | |
| Recent Federal Regulations | |
| Ferc Actions After Epact92 | |
| Orders 888/889 - Promoting Wholesale Competition Through Open Access Non-discriminatory Transmission Service by Public Utilities | |
| Recovery of stranded Costs by Public Utilities (Transmitting Utilities) | |
| Order No. 2000 - Regional Transmission Organizations | |
| Order 890 - Amendments to Orders 888 and 889 | |
| Ferc Actions Implementing Epact05 | |
| Market Manipulation | |
| Order 670 - Anti-Manipulation/Anti-fraud | |
| Electricity Reliability And Infrastructure | |
| Order No. 672 Electricity Reliability and Infrastructure | |
| Expansion And Modernization Of The Nation'S Electricity Grid | |
| Order 679 - Promoting Transmission Investment | |
| Order 681 Long Term Transmission Rights | |
| Siting Major New Transmission Facilities | |
| Order 689 - Siting of Electric Transmission | |
| Purpa Reforms | |
| Orders 671 and 671A - Qualifying Facilities | |
| Order 688 PURPA Small Power Production | |
| Repeal Of Puhca - Mergers And Acquisitions | |
| Market Based Rates | |
| Order 697 Market-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales Of Electric Energy, Capacity And Ancillary Services By Public Utilities | |
| Order 719 Wholesale Competition in Regions with Organized Electric Markets | |
| Recent Epa Actions | |
| State Regulatory Authority | |
| Tariff Basis | |
| Transmission Rights | |
| State Utility Restructuring | |
| Customer Choice | |
| Metering | |
| Distribution Rates | |
| State and Local Environmental Requirements | |
| Overall Regulatory Problems | |
| The Information, Communications And Control Network And Security | |
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