Utilities and Power

Industries

Regulated returns on rate base, plus a century of arguments about whether competition belongs in electricity at all.

6 books · 1 people behind it

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  1. The Smartest Guys in the RoomBethany McLean, Peter Elkind, 2003
  2. Empires of LightJill Jonnes, 2003
  3. The GridGretchen Bakke, 2016

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Books 6

The Smartest Guys in the Room
T1 The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind · 2003 · Enron and the limits of mark-to-market energy trading.
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Andrew WilkinsonMohnish PabraiWarren Buffett
Empires of Light
T2 Empires of Light
Jill Jonnes · 2003 · Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the electrification of America.
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Chris Dixon
Conspiracy of Fools
T2 Conspiracy of Fools
Kurt Eichenwald · 2005 · The narrative counterpart to Smartest Guys, reconstructed scene by scene.
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Mohnish Pabrai
The Grid
T2 The Grid
Gretchen Bakke · 2016
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Bill Gates
Insull
T3 Insull
Forrest McDonald · 1962 · The utility holding-company pyramid and its 1932 collapse.
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Shorting the Grid
T4 Shorting the Grid
Meredith Angwin · 2020 · Deregulated wholesale markets and reliability risk.
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