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Global Lessons from the California Energy Crisis
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By
Woodrow Clark, Clark Communications LLC, Los Angeles, USA
Ted Bradshaw, University of California, Davis, USA
Included in series
Elsevier Global Energy Policy and Economics Series,
Description
* Empowering decision makers by setting the vision for a new approach to energy systems and providing the tools and
plans to achieve these objectives
* Provides specific and actionable public policy and programme tools
* Help
solve energy issues worldwide by illustrating how the lessons learned from the California energy crisis can be used
to create an agile energy system for any region in a country
Due to the recent catastrophic energy system failures in California
along with those in the North-Eastern US and Southern Canada, London, and Italy, the time has come to proclaim the failure of deregulation,
privatization or liberalization and propose a new energy system. This book shows in the first section, how five precipitating forces
led to the deregulation debacle in California: (1) major technological changes and commercialization, (2) regulatory needs mismatched
to societal adjustments, (3) inadequate and flawed economic models, (4) lack of vision, goals, and planning leading to energy failures,
and (5) failure and lack of economic regional development.
The second half of the book examines how "civic market", new economic models,
and planning for a sustainable economic environment counteracted these five forces to create an "agile energy system". This system is
based on renewable energy generation, hybrid or combined and distributed generation technologies. Such an agile system can be a new paradigm
for both energy efficiency and reliability for any region or country, in contrast to the brittle centralized energy grid systems created
by deregulation. Furthermore, the book overviews how the future of energy systems rests in the emerging "clean" hydrogen economy.
Audience
Energy decision makers, researchers, public policy workers and company executives
Contents
The End of the Old Order: The Roots of Restructuring; Energy System Change in a Global Context; Energy System Change in a Global Context;
Technological Change: From a Vertically Integrated to a Dispersed Electrical System; The Derregulation Debacle; Economic Models and Market
Change; Knowing and Managing Complex Power Systems; Economic development and the Energy Crisis; Advanced Technologies for an Agile Energy
System; Civic Markets: Public Oversight of an Agile Energy System; Civic Capitalism: A new economics for the public good; Planning for
a Complex Infrastructure; Economic Development: Sustainability is Defined Improving Local Economies; The Hydrogen Freeway: The Road Ahead;
Conclusion
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Hardbound, 510 pages, publication date: SEP-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044448-2
ISBN-10: 0-08-044448-2
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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