Distributed Generation: The Power Paradigm for the New Millennium

Rating:
Summary: informative, thought provoking
Review: This is a well written book that should be a staple desk reference for energy service firms, utilities, manufacturers, and consultants.
To me, the implications of today's GT&D have never been more apparent. The book's technical content was presented smartly, while the narrative flowed smoothly. I brought the book onto the boat over the weekend, as an afterthought, but found myself powering through it at 3am. The book reinforced my view that development of a robust distributed generation base sufficient to displace portions of the existing system is not necessarily a technology issue--nor necessarily a competitive issue; the businessplace and legislative mindset must change faster to deal with resource obstacles. For me, the book sparked ideas beyond traditional distributed generation and what was presented in the book: will hybrid automobile and emerging microgrids expose currency card transfer vendors, portal providers, and power traders to new opportunities? After traditional standards do their part, will wireless, file sharing, and OS open standards weave into in an emerging or mature DG marketplace? At which point will the internet-telecom folks begin poking and prodding for a way in? Although the book was a dg book, it sparked a lot of adjacent-development concepts for me; this is what I look for.