Clean Electricity, A practical path to zero-carbon buildings PDF

Part one is a brief history of electricity and a description of the existing electric grid; the pollution it creates; and the challenge faced by current balancing authorities and utilities. It describes the renewable energy technologies that are emerging at the utility-scale and how these technologies along with battery and storage are replacing legacy coal and gas power plants.

 

Part two focuses on what each of us can do as consumers of electricity to use less dirty electricity, and for what we have to use, how we can acquire renewable energy from the grid or install our own solar systems.

 

Part three looks at the pressures for change on the electric utility industry and speculates on what these big companies might look like in the future.