Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning
Aynsley Kellow | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 244 | Electrical Engineering
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. Electricity has long been regarded as a natural monopoly, but questions of privatization, regulation and government control are increasingly prevalent. The book explores these issues through case studies from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Aynsley Kellow argues for new approaches to electricity planning, which offer both economic and environmental benefits.
• Timely study of privitisation of the power industries • Australia, Canada and New Zealand are highlighted as case studies • Highlights environmental concerns, in particular the greenhouse effect
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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