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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure Clean energy Electric power distribution Electric power failures Electric power systems Technological innovations Energy policy Social aspects Pacific Gas and Electric Company. SCIENCE / Electricity TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General United StatesBlunt, Katherine
Summary: "A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas & Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2022
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Summary: "The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016