Understanding Today's Electricity Business [Paperback]

Bob Shively (Author), John Ferrare (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2010

UPDATED 2/2010 - Understanding Today's Electricity Business presents a comprehensive 216-page overview of the U.S. electric industry. As with its gas industry companion, this book presents a straightforward and easy-to-understand look at how the industry operates - from who are the major players, to the various deregulation models, to the physical electric system, to how industry players make money and manage risk. The perfect resource book for anyone who needs to understand the "big picture" of the electric business. Like no other book on the market today!

Product Details

• Paperback: 219 pages
• Publisher: Enerdynamics LLC (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974174416
• ISBN-13: 978-0974174419
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Oil & Energy

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Today's Electricity Business, October 20, 2005

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Kiwi (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Understanding Today's Electricity Business (Paperback)

I work for a utility billing and CIS provider and needed a reference book to enhance my knowledge of our focus industry. This book was great, it covers all relevent topics in good depth from generation to how utilities make money under different business and regulatory models. It is surprisingly easy to read given the dryness of the topic. I highly recommend it.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars superficial book, February 24, 2009

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This review is from: Understanding Today's Electricity Business (Paperback)

I am new in this area but still the book looks very shallow in its explanation of each topic covered. Some materials are not necessary such as how electricity works. I felt that these materials and the gigantic fonts are to fill the pages. The whole "book" if we can call it a book can be condensed to maybe less than 50 pages.

The good thing about the book is that it does explain some basic concepts of energy market to someone without any kind of background knowledge but don't expect to get anything more out of it. I can't seem to find these concepts elsewhere and maybe this could be the reason to buy the book.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good introduction, but not deep enough, December 14, 2006

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Lena (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Understanding Today's Electricity Business (Paperback)

I found that the book gives very good introduction to subject - I should have bought it a year ago, when I just started working for a utility. However, I expected it to be more dense and deep, especially when dealing with rate design issues. Anyway, I would recommend the book to anyone who begins to work in the industry, since it covers a very broad range of themes and therefore helps to level field for "electricity illiterate" person (well, I certainly was!).