Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure

<b>A comprehensive coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable reliable secure and environmentally sustainable electricity services.</b><p>America's aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly even as the need for highly reliable electric service&#151;driven by the explosion of digital technology&#151;continues to rise. Largely missing from national discussions however is a coherent comprehensive national strategy for modernizing this critical infrastructure. Energy expert Mason Willrich presents just such a strategy in this book connecting the dots across electric utilities independent suppliers government bureaucracies political jurisdictions and academic disciplines. He explains the need for a coherent approach offers a framework for analyzing policy options and proposes a step-by-step strategy for modernizing electrical infrastructure end-to-end in a way that ensures the delivery of affordable reliable secure and environmentally sustainable electricity services.</p><p>Willrich argues that an effective electrical infrastructure modernization strategy must incorporate flexibility adaptability and the capacity to coordinate policies at local state and federal levels. He reviews the history of America's electrification from Edison's demonstration of the incandescent light bulb through the recent expansion of wind solar and energy efficiency as carbon-free energy resources. He describes the current ownership and operation of the electric industry and the complicated web of federal and state policies that govern it.</p>