Shorting the Grid
The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

This book is for people deeply interested in energy policy, electricity, utilities, renewables, especially in New England. It is ground-breaking in its explanation of regional transmission organizations, (RTOs), how generating plants bid into the grid, how reliability (of generation) hasn't been valu......more

Shorting the Grid, by Meredith Angwin, could have made great bed-time reading — put you right to sleep! Could have been. But it isn’t. I honestly don’t know how anyone managed to write a book like this, but she did it, and did it remarkably well. The complexity of the multiple layers of policies and......more

This was a fascinating and informative page-turner that I could not put down! Packed with great information and ideas, I deployed three and a half stacks of page tabs on this one... This book is (obviously) about electrical grids. There is a bit of detail about how the grid works in the sense of a h......more

Glad I read this to get an overview of grid governance, but I kinda wish the author had left it there. The longer the book went on, the more obvious the author’s agenda became (nuclear is her favorite). I support nuclear energy too, but many of her claims appeared so clouded by this staunchly held b......more

Amazing read! I've been working for a utility for years and I had a smattering of knowledge about the grid but this definitely sheds light on the politics, policy, and complexities involved... especially in RTOs. Please please please read this book before engaging in discussion boards online about g......more