Electricity Transmission, Distribution and Storage Systems

Preface

For over a century, a significant number of the world’s population has enjoyed the benefits of electric power – a clean, economical and manageable energy source that leads to material improvements in quality of life and industrial efficiency and enhanced prosperity. At present, there are few places of social and economic importance on this planet that do not have utility-supplied electric power. Along with roads and bridges, telephone, the World Wide Web, water and sewer, electricity has become part of the very foundation upon which first-world countries have built their quality of life and economic prosperity and this is essential to the development and prosperity of the rest of the world. Stable and secure supply of electric power ...