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Successful Smart Grid Implementation, 2nd Edition
$95.00The definitive guide on smart grid project development and execution! Planning and implementing a smart grid project can be one of the most complex endeavors that a utility undertakes. The electrical industry is rapidly changing and even the term "smart...$95.00 -
The Electrical Grid: A Nontechnical Guide
$69.00The electrical grid stands as a remarkable achievement in engineering and management, serving as a vital catalyst for the development and progress of nations worldwide. This book aims to demystify the grid, presenting its intricacies in layman terms to...$69.00 -
Renewable Energy: A Nontechnical Guide
$83.00This comprehensive guide covers all the essential aspects of renewable energy, drawing on the extensive experience of an energy journalist. The book offers a clear and accessible overview, beginning with a historical context and basic energy principles...$83.00 -
The ESG Planning Guide for Energy Projects
$49.00So, what are you going to do about ESG? ESG is a powerful concept that combines expectations for environmental (E) and social (S) benefits with effective governance (G), to ensure those benefits are achieved. How can project teams manage ESG with the...$49.00 -
The Electric Power Industry: A Nontechnical Guide
$107.00The move from carbon-based fuels to renewables — particularly wind and solar which produce electricity — make this book a "must read" for anyone who works in the energy space or just wants to know more about energy and its future. Covering...$107.00 -
Control Room Operator's Handbook: At-the-ready Control Room & Operations Center Guidance
$155.00Designed for operators and controllers in industrial plants and facilities who are responsible for the minute by minute, shift after shift control room operations. This first-of-a-kind handbook is a ready, by-the-side, resource for use during all shift...$155.00 -
Reinventing the Energy Value Chain: Supply Chain Roadmaps for Digital Oilfields through Hydrogen Fuel Cells
$119.00"This book is encyclopedic as well as a how-to manual, a gem for those interested in energy supply chains." — Dr. Jaydeep Balakrishnan, PhD, Associate Dean, College of Business Administration at the California State University, Sacramento, and...$119.00 -
Cybersecurity for SCADA Systems, 2nd Edition
$119.00A general background of SCADA system technology and cybersecurity concepts and technologies, showing how the two can be brought together to safeguard our infrastructure and computer automation systems. This book provides a high-level overview of...$119.00 -
Trading Natural Gas: A Nontechnical Guide, 2nd Edition
$95.00This "how to" book covers the various mechanics of natural gas trading, including the physical (cash) market for natural gas production, transportation, distribution, and consumption. It has been 23 years since Trading Natural Gas: A Nontechnical Guide...$95.00 -
Energy Trading & Hedging: A Nontechnical Guide
$95.00This book focuses primarily on the energy products that are financially traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange: crude oil, natural gas, unleaded gasoline, and heating oil. These commodities are the most common ones used for hedging energy commodity...$95.00 -
How to Sell Engineered Products
$95.00This book is not a traditional book on sales. The focus is tactical as well as strategic. Big questions are answered. How do capital goods need to be sold? What sales approach and tactics are recommended? What's the difference between a standard versus...$95.00 -
It's Time to Step Up! Leadership Lessons from the Fire Service
$49.00A manager is not always a leader. Are you a leader? Would your team run through a wall for you? Do you feel like you are out on an island? You may manage but do you lead? You should be asking yourself these questions daily. If your goal is to lead your...$49.00 -
Cogeneration Power Plants: Planning and Evaluation
$109.00ReviewIt's 239 pages. That's it. Pared down to remove fluff and to pass on such a tremendous wealth of knowledge, it brought a smile to my face because I saw the gentle hand of Corrine, his wife, burning the midnight oil, to ensure there was an economy...$109.00 -
Fundamentals of Trading Energy Futures & Options, 3rd Edition
$95.00The long awaited third edition builds on the foundation of the previous two editions providing a more comprehensive overview of what traders or investors can look at when entering into the business of energy trading. It deals with all critical issues of...$95.00 -
Successful Smart Grid Implementation
$107.00Successful Smart Grid Implementation prepares readers to plan, execute, and properly control a smart meter and grid operational technology and systems integration project. Author James Ketchledge provides a framework for a successful project by combining...$107.00 -
International Energy Markets: Understanding Pricing, Policies, and Profits, 2nd Edition
$138.00This practical textbook contains toolbox of models, along with institutional, technological, and historical information on oil, coal, gas, and electricity (including Renewables). It provides managers and supervisors in the power and petroleum fields...$138.00 -
Power Plant Construction Management: A Survival Guide, 2nd Edition
$119.00The second edition is revised and updated to include new technologies, evolving regulations, and the changing power generation mix between gas and coal plants. Expanding upon the first edition, it provides a thorough plan for managing the financials of...$119.00 -
Wind Power: The Industry Grows Up
$107.00by Rebecca L. Busby In her timely new book, best-selling author Rebecca Busby provides a balanced, comprehensive view of the wind power industry. Dr. Jon G. McGowan recommends this well-written and well-documented book as "required reading for people who...$107.00 -
Vantage Point: Worldwide Hydro 2009
$50.00More than 1,025 hydropower projects currently are under construction. An additional 3,900 hydro projects representing more than 974,000 MW are either in planning or have been proposed. At the same time, heightened competition and new regulations continue...$50.00 -
Utility Security: The New Paradigm
$95.00by Karl A. Seger, Ph.D. The paradigm shifted radically on 9/11, pushing utility security to priority status. Utility Security: The New Paradigm addresses the real threats to utility systems and provides a step-by-step approach to assessing...$95.00 -
Understanding Today's Electricity Business
$79.95This 217-page detailed overview of the North American electric industry presents a clear-cut look at how the industry operates. Topics covered include the major industry players, regulation, the various deregulated market structures, the physical...$79.95 -
Unlocking the Global Warming Toolbox: Key Choices for Carbon Restriction and Sequestration
$107.00Written from the unique and informed perspective of someone who has served as an advisor to every interested stakeholder, Unlocking the Global Warming Toolbox is the first and only book to focus on the key options for designing and implementing equitable...$107.00 -
Turbine Steam Path Mechanical Design and Manufacture, Volume IIIB
$119.00The final book of Sanders' three-volume set on turbine steam path, Sanders turns his focus to the details of design consideration for steam turbines. He relays all the information on mechanical design and function needed in evaluating turbine maufacture,...$119.00 -
Turbine Steam Path Maintenance & Repair, Volume II
$119.00by William P. Sanders, P. Eng. In the second volume of his two-book set on turbine steam paths, William P. Sanders, P. Eng., turns his expert analysis to repair and refurbishment options currently accessible that will keep turbines operating with high...$119.00 -
Turbine Steam Path Maintenance & Repair, Volume I
$119.00by William P. Sanders, P. Eng. "Mr. Sanders is to be congratulated for his dedication to the mechanical engineering profession by contributing this well written and thorough work for the benefit of the entire power generation industry." --Thomas H...$119.00 -
Turbine Steam Path Design and Manufacture, Volume IIIA
$119.00by William P. Sanders, P. Eng. This ready-reference contains valuable insight for the engineer faced with design and manufacture decisions. A continuation of Sanders' two volumes on maintenance and repair, this volume represents the first in a subsequent...$119.00 -
Surviving Energy Prices
$83.00Energy prices have been at the center of the news in this new millennium. Swift fluctuations in the energy markets often have a brutal effect on the company bottom line. In his concise and comprehensive book, hedging guru Peter C. Beutel gives readers...$83.00 -
Smart Metering Handbook
$119.00Internationally, more and more utilities, distributors and suppliers are adopting smart metering systems to manage their millions of customers more effectively. The new requirements of these markets demonstrate even more strongly how strategic a metering...$119.00 -
Revenue Protection: Combating Utility Theft and Fraud
$95.00by Karl Seger, Ph.D. Energy theft is more common than most think. It costs consumers billions of dollars every year in the United States alone. In his new book Karl Seger explains how a utility can establish a revenue protection program or evaluate and...$95.00 -
Renewable Energy in Nontechnical Language
MSRP: $83.00Now: $49.00Was: $83.00Everything you need for a solid understanding of renewable energy is here in this easy-to-understand guide. Ann Chambers, draws from her expertise on energy matters to deliver an unparalleled guide to this emerging market. Using a straightforward...MSRP: $83.00Now: $49.00Was: $83.00 -
RCM Guidebook: Building a Reliable Plant Maintenance Program
$102.00by Jim August RCM Guidebook: Building a Reliable Plant Maintenance Program is a must-have for those responsible for developing plant maintenance programs. Provides a basic outline of a complex subject Explains how to build a robust maintenance program...$102.00 -
Power Primer: A Nontechnical Guide from Generation to End-Use
$83.00This nontechnical guide provides information on how electricity is generated, transmitted and distributed. Written in easy-to-understand language, this title is a must for industry newcomers as well as veteran professionals who need a quick refresher on...$83.00 -
Power Industry Dictionary
$71.00This quick reference offers a broad spectrum of nearly 4,000 industry terms and phrases. Terms used in generation, transmission, and distribution can be found here, along with common business and billing language and terms related to the major...$71.00 -
The Power of Water
$79.00by Georg Kuffner (Ed.) The Power of Water draws on a diverse range of technical and stakeholder views to provide an understandable and comprehensive overview of technical applications, social and economic implications, as well as of the central role of...$79.00 -
Power Plant Water Chemistry: A Practical Guide
$107.00Plant efficiency and profitability depend on avoiding such problems as pH extremes, oxygen scavenging, corrosion, scale, and contamination. This practical handbook for utility personnel and independent power producers provides detailed discussion and...$107.00 -
Optimal Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power Generation
$119.00"Technical managers and engineers will be able to use this book as a reference guide, while supply chain professionals will find it to be a comprehensive and resourceful guide to oil and gas supply chain activities, including tools for managing risks and...$119.00 -
Nuclear Energy Leadership: Lessons Learned from U.S. Operators
$95.00The nuclear industry has quietly evolved over the past 30 years to become one of the safest and most reliable low-cost producers of electricity. Mary Jo Rogers's book, Nuclear Energy Leadership: Lessons Learned from U.S. Operators, provides helpful...$95.00 -
The New Rules: A Guide to Electric Market Regulation
Designed to reach a non-legal audience, Steven Ferrey highlights the importance of electric energy rules and legal restrictions replacing the traditional utility environment. Rather than focus on the trends of deregulation or concentrate on a particular... -
Natural Gas in Nontechnical Language
$102.00An overview of the natural gas process from wellhead to burnertip, from exploration to futures trading, and the latest issues of co-generation and other product use. Features & Benefits Origins and history of natural gas Exploration principles,...$102.00 -
Natural Gas & Electric Power in Nontechnical Language
$83.00A history of these two converging industries and an overview of the factors forcing them together—political, regulatory, technical, and economic. She covers other fuels competing for market share in the electric industry, the merchant power...$83.00 -
Microturbine Generator Handbook
$119.00This introductory handbook to cutting-edge microturbine applications covers the technology, how it operates, and a history of its development. Hamilton addresses critics, skeptics, and beginners in her educational approach to distributed generation...$119.00 -
Merchant Power: A Basic Guide
$83.00by Ann Chambers Author and industry expert Ann Chambers addresses what industry professionals need to know and understand about merchant power plants—including how they differ from "regular" plants, who's building merchants (and where and why), and...$83.00 -
Managing Energy Risk: A Nontechnical Guide to Markets and Trading
$95.00Energy markets are more perilous than ever before. Deregulation has forced a whole new world of trading and risk management jargon onto the power and energy marketer. How does the manager master this complex process, with its myriad experts,...$95.00 -
IEA Guidelines on Methodology for Upgrading Controls (CD-ROM)
$195.00This Technical Guideline is designed to help hydro-plant owners and operators make the best technical and financial decisions regarding control system upgrades. Includes guidelines for: evaluating the current status of equipment managing different...$195.00 -
IEA Guidelines on Methodology for Hydroelectric Francis Turbine Upgrading
$195.00This highly useful reference identifies the key steps and considerations in carrying out a Francis turbine upgrade by runner replacement. CD-ROM recaps experiences of other project owners and provides information on the procedures and best practices for:...$195.00 -
IEA Guidelines on Methodology for Generator Upgrading (CD-ROM)
$195.00This highly practical resource is designed to help hydro-plant owners and operators make the best technical and financial decisions regarding generator upgrades. Includes guidelines for evaluating the current status of equipment managing different...$195.00 -
Hydro Wheels: A Guide to Maintaining and Improving Hydro Units
$59.00The third edition of this practical, effective manual provides detailed information about maintenance programs as well as the diagnosis and remedy of common hydro wheel problems. Author Thomas Spicher, a 30-year hydroelectric industry veteran, expanded...$59.00 -
Hydro Plant Electrical Systems
$107.00Practical and easy to read, this compact volume provides the industry's most comprehensive guide to electrical equipment and control systems. Filled with helpful checklists and references, Hydro Plant Electrical Systems is an indispensable tool for...$107.00 -
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: A Comprehensive Guide
Explains why hydrogen has emerged as an essential area for research and technology development worldwide. It explores the forces driving the market for hydrogen-powered fuel cells, as well as the technical and economic barriers that could derail a... -
How to Sell Technical Equipment and Services
$95.00The objective of this book is to show how a salesperson can gain the enviable position of being the customer’s sincere preference for doing business. Much has been written about perfecting sales techniques, in this informative book author James R...$95.00 -
The Guide to Hydropower Mechanical Design
$150.00by ASME Hydro Power Technical Committee The Guide to Hydropower Mechanical Design draws on the insights and experience of more than 40 of the world's leading hydro experts to provide a careful and thorough overview of existing "best practices." The...$150.00 -
Fundamentals of Steam Generation Chemistry
$131.00Provides the non-chemist with practical information on steam generation chemistry which can be used on a daily basis to monitor water/steam chemistry parameters. Plant engineers, operators, or mechanical and chemical engineering students, will be able to...$131.00 -
Financing Energy Projects in Developing Countries
$119.00An update to his comprehensive 1996 text on project finance in emerging economies, Razavi's authoritative book provides first-hand information and analysis of how multilateral, bilateral, and commercial financiers decide to support an energy project. It...$119.00 -
Energy Storage: A Nontechnical Guide
$95.00A complete resource on the operation of energy storage technologies and how they interact in the marketplace today. Baxter explains new opportunities for these technologies, detailed descriptions of the technologies and their market applications, and...$95.00 -
Energy: A Historical Perspective and 21st Century Forecast
$48.00by Amos Salvador Exhaustive study of the historical use of energy is paramount in forecasting future use accurately. The much-needed detailed historical statistical data on human population, energy consumption, and current information about present and...$48.00 -
Energy Efficiency: Principles and Practices
$83.00An outline for utilities, government agencies and power generators for educating consumers on conservation, better resource management, and a smaller carbon footprint. These techniques are not only of interest to the modern consumer, but also can...$83.00 -
Energy Companies and Market Reform: How Deregulation Went Wrong
$83.00During the last two decades, deregulation and restructuring were widely expected to transform the nation's energy industries, bringing more competitive pricing and abundant, reliable energy to the public. Instead, consumers and investors in the...$83.00 -
Electric Power Generation: A Nontechnical Guide
$95.00Unlike more technical texts stuffed with formulae and theories, this book explains in plain English how power is created and replaces formulae with everyday examples and easy-to-understand illustrations. It opens with an explanation of how electricity is...$95.00 -
Distributed Generation: A Nontechnical Guide
$90.00As the energy market restructures into a significantly more competitive industry, many energy companies are considering distributed generation (DG) as part of a new customer-focused corporate strategy. Chambers, et al cover the technologies associated...$90.00 -
Customer Service: Utility Style
$95.00Successful utility customer service leaders are providing great service while reducing costs. This primer for customer service leaders at all levels outlines successful techniques for creating a customer focused culture, taking costs out of the business...$95.00 -
Creating Competitive Power Markets: The PJM Model
$83.00This comprehensive model of the nation's largest, most technically advanced and forward-thinking power pool—Pennsylvania, Jersey, Maryland (PJM)—provides a window on state-of-the-art solutions to complex organizational, managerial,...$83.00 -
Combined-Cycle Gas & Steam Turbine Power Plants, 3rd Edition
$126.00With this third edition, international expert Rolf Kehlhofer leads a team of eminent engineers for the long awaited update of the bible for combined-cycle plants. Combined-Cycle Gas & Steam Turbine Power Plants, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive...$126.00 -
The California Energy Crisis: Lessons for a Deregulating Industry
$59.00California was the first to open its electricity markets to competition (1998) and is often viewed as a prototype for deregulation that is unfolding on a state-by-state basis across the United States. In this book, energy columnist and think-tank analyst...$59.00 -
Integrated Business Continuity: Maintaining Resilience in Uncertain Times
$83.00Packed with proven methods and easy how-to instructions for ensuring resilience within your organization! Rapid change in the business environment is the new norm. The way organizations operate is changing as new and better technologies become available...$83.00 -
Basics of Boiler and HRSG Design
$95.00An excellent primer for power plant professionals who have to wear many hats and need a practical explanation of the design and basic operation of conventional steam generating boilers and HRSGs without having to wade through technical material. Buecker...$95.00 -
Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers and Cooling Towers: Thermal-Flow Performance Evaluation and Design, Volume 2
$180.00Part two of the two volume set. This text represents the most detailed and comprehensive book presenting modern practice and theory relevant to the thermal-flow performance evaluation, design, and optimization of air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling...$180.00 -
Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers and Cooling Towers: Thermal-Flow Performance Evaluation and Design, Volume 1
$180.00Part one of the two volume set. This text represents the most detailed and comprehensive book presenting modern practice and theory relevant to the thermal-flow performance evaluation, design, and optimization of air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling...$180.00