The Energy Switch

<P>The energy industry is changing and it’s far more than just solar panels. Electric vehicles look to overtake gasoline-powered cars within our lifetimes wind farms are popping up in unlikely places traders are transforming energy into a commodity and supercomputers are crunching vast amounts of data in nanoseconds while helping to keep our energy grids secure from hackers.</P><P>The way humans produce distribute and consume power will be cleaner cheaper and infinitely more complex within the next decade. In <I>The Energy Switch</I> leading energy industry expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler<B></B>looks at all aspects of the transformation: how we got here where we are going and the implications for all of us in our daily lives. </P><P>Kelly-Detwiler takes readers to the frontlines of the energy revolution. Meet Steve Collins an executive from Commercial Development Corporation the company that blew up two $570-million-dollar concrete cooling towers to create a staging ground for the new $70 billion U.S. offshore wind industry; Rob Threlkeld a General Motors executive who convinced the auto giant to sign multiple 20-year renewable energy contracts worth hundreds of millions; Kevin McAlpin a Texas homeowner who buys the power for his home on the electricity spot market – where prices can soar from less than one cent a kilowatthour to $9.00 over the course of a single day; Dr. Kristin Persson who oversees a supercomputer that can process data at 30 quadrillion calculations per second in the quest for better renewable energy and battery technologies; and John Davis a Texas rancher who can keep his land intact with help from the royalty payments from seven turbines spinning on his range.</P><P>Energy creation and distribution has driven society’s progress for centuries. Today people are increasingly aware that it is imperative that humans move towards a cleaner digitized and democratized energy economy. <I>The Energy Switch</I> is about that multi-trillion dollar transformation told from the perspective of those leading us to that bright future.</P>