
Shorting the Grid
The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
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Narrated by:
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Eric G. Meyer
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By:
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Meredith Angwin
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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Very Informative, But Desperately Needs A pdf
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An important book for every energy professional
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Great education on the electric grid
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(my background is from the power/energy sector, but on the services side so I have no stake in the personal opinions of the author, but do have some background knowledge of the system).
if you buy this book, I suggest watching an hour or so of YouTube videos about the grid and some power basics just so you're not starting cold - that'll help you take in a lot more from this book.
Decent intro to the grid, but disorganized
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I want to like this book, it's just very hard to stay actively listening to. I can't tell of it's the story or the narration though. I shifted from my normal 1.2x to 1.1x to 0.95x.
The narrator unexpectedly and suddenly shifts tones or pitches, as if many multiple seperate conversations were spliced together. Maybe there are cut-out blurbs in the actual book? If so, some notification would be helpful. I also think the narrator didn't understand what they were saying, as if reading a book aloud in class. Makes an already acronym dense book harder to follow because, I think, the emphasis(es?) are in odd spots.
I wish the story itself wasn't predominantly about the Northeast's power grid and had a more country wide perspective, even if the view had to shift from 5,000 feet to 30,000 feet. I realize it's the author's experience and "the grid" is a collection of regional areas, but there's a lot of details about specifically the politics of the Northeast's grid that could be cut to someone not from there.
Feels Fragmented and Regional
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