Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

by Meredith Angwin

Narrated by Eric G. Meyer

Unabridged — 10 hours, 13 minutes

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

by Meredith Angwin

Narrated by Eric G. Meyer

Unabridged — 10 hours, 13 minutes

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Overview

Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problem because near-misses increase their profits. Meredith Angwin describes how closed meetings, arcane auction rules, and five-minute planning horizons will topple the reliability of our electric grid. Shorting the Grid shines light on the vulnerabilities of our grid, and includes suggestions for making the grid more dependable.


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In Shorting the Grid, Meredith Angwin provides an enormously valuable, clear, and succinct explanation of our most important network...If you care about the future of our increasingly electrified world, buy this book and read it.

- Robert Bryce, author of A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

An eye-opening exposé of our grid's vulnerabilities...If you take for granted that the lights go on when you flip a switch, this book may blow your mind.

- Joshua S. Goldstein, author of A Bright Future, How Some Countries have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

Shorting the Grid is full of sharp writing and engaging stories about the most hidden part of our grid - how grid-level decisions are made.

- Dan Nott, artist and author of Hidden Systems, a forthcoming graphic non-fiction book on infrastructure

The National Academy of Engineering describes the U.S. power grid as the "supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century." ...Shorting the Grid reveals reasons why we must pay more attention to grid governance and the potential of poor decisions to override technical successes.

- Rod Adams: blogger at Atomic Insights, Managing Member at Nucleation Capital LP

Product Details

BN ID: 2940175199667
Publisher: Carnot Communications
Publication date: 07/06/2022
Edition description: Unabridged
Sales rank: 1,060,380
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