Understanding Today's Electricity Business Book

Section One: Introduction                                                         1
Section Two: What is Electricity?                                              9
Section Three: Electric Consumers                                            21
Section Four: Generation                                                          35
Section Five: Transmission                                                        55
Section Six: Distribution                                                            63
Section Seven: Electric System Operations                                71
Section Eight: Makret Participants in the Delivery Chain             83
Section Nine: Electric Market Structures                                   93
Section Ten: Regulation in the Electric Industry                          109
Section Eleven: The Concepts of Market Restructuring              125
Section Twelve: The History of Market Restructuring                 141
Section Thirteen: Market Dynamics                                           157
Section Fourteen: Making Money and Managing Risk                173
Section Fifteen: The Future of the Electricity Business                 185
Appendix A: Glossary                                                                193
Appendix B: Units and Conversions                                           205
Appendix C: Acronyms                                                             207
Appendix D: Index                                                                    213