Transforming power : the politics of electricity planning
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Transforming power : the politics of electricity planning
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-221) and index
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Description
Originally published in 1996, this book is an exploration and analysis of the electricity industry in the context of uncertainty following the energy crisis of the 1970s and concern over the greenhouse effect. Few industries demand a similar level of foresight and planning, or such vast amounts of capital. The book examines five well-known Australian, Canadian and New Zealand cases and closely analyses the ways in which various agencies have sought ends to serve the means at their disposal. Electricity has long been regarded as a natural monopoly, but questions of privatisation, regulation and government control are increasingly prevalent. The book explores these issues and also notes the experiences of other countries in its analysis of institutional reform. Aynsley Kellow argues for different approaches to electricity planning, which offer much by way of economic savings and minimisation of environmental problems.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Institution and electricity planning
- 2. Tasmania: the means justify the ends
- 3. New Zealand: the triumph of distributive politics
- 4. B. C. Hydro: winning reform after losing the peace
- 5. Ontario Hydro: the decline and fall of the electric empire
- 6. Victoria: uncertain reform
- 7. Institutions and electricity planning.
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