Understanding Electric Power Systems: An Overview of the Technology, the Marketplace, and Government Regulations

Author: Jack Casazza, Frank Delea
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780470484180

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2010 pg. 151

About the Author

JACK CASAZZA is an electrical engineer with wide experience in the electric power profession as an executive, researcher, economist, and consultant. He has served as vice president in a major utility responsible for elec- tric and gas planning and research, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia System Operating Co., and as chairman of the U.S. Technical Committee of CIGRE. Casazza is the author of six books on electric power policy and technology and founded the American Education Institute. An IEEE Life Fellow, he received the Halperin Award for his contributions to the development of the national transmission system.

FRANK DELEA is retired from Consolidated Edison Company, where he had a wide range of assignments giving him insight into planning, operational, financial, organizational, and legal issues. He was the company's chief electric planning engineer, its chief forecast engineer, its first project manager for rate cases, and a corporate planning director. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Since his retirement, Delea has conducted many short courses in technical, business, and regulatory issues relating to electric power systems for non-engineers.