A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure
A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure

Author: Montero, Juan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1839106050

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Providing a coherent and multidisciplinary approach to digitalization, this Modern Guide aims to systematize how the digitalization process affects infrastructure-based industries, including telecommunications, transport, energy, water and postal services.

Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future

Author: Fereidoon Sioshansi

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0128043202

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Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution network and customer side. Trends like the rapid rise of self-generation and distributed generation, microgrids, demand response, the dissemination of electric vehicles and zero-net energy buildings that promise to turn many consumers into prosumers are discussed. The book brings together authors from industry and academic backgrounds to present their original, cutting-edge and thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector. The book's first part lays out the present scenario, with concepts such as an integrated grid, microgrids, self-generation, customer-centric service, and pricing, while the second part focuses on how innovation, policy, regulation, and pricing models may come together to form a new electrical sector, exploring the reconfiguring of the current institutions, new rates design in light of changes to retail electricity markets and energy efficiency, and the cost and benefits of integration of distributed or intermittent generation, including coupling local renewable energy generation with electric vehicle fleets. The final section projects the future function and role of existing electrical utilities and newcomers to this sector, looking at new pathways for business and pricing models, consumer relations, technology, and innovation. - Contains discussions that help readers understand the underlying causes and drivers of change in the electrical sector, and what these changes mean in financial, operational, and regulatory terms - Provides thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector - Helps readers anticipate what developments are likely to define the function and role of the utility of the future

Energy Futures
Energy Futures

Author: Simone Abram

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-12-31

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 311074564X

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Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analytics and automation open up new possibilities which have implications for energy generation, storage and energy demand. To support these changes we urgently need to rethink how energy will be sourced, shared and used. Yet existing approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data analytics and capital, are dangerously conservative and entrenched. Energy Futures critically evaluates this context, and the energy infrastructures, stakeholders, and politics that participate in it, to propose plausible, responsible and ethical modes of encountering possible energy futures. Imagining anthropocene challenges, emerging technologies and everyday life otherwise through empirically grounded studies, opens up possible energy futures. Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology creates a powerful mode of engagement, which this book argues is needed to disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy futures. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through innovative ethnographic practice how new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures can be mobilised in engagements with emerging technologies, anthropocene challenges and everyday realities. In doing so it brings together authors, analytical expertise and ethnographic evidence from the global south, north and places in between, generated through innovative methodologies including remote video and comic strip methods and documentary video practice as well as long term fieldwork.

God's Plan To Connect The Dots
God's Plan To Connect The Dots

Author: Arthur Kutschied

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1640797742

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God's Plan to Connect the Dots is a desire of mine to show others how God directs mine and their lives. God saved my life on many occasions so that I may share his Gospel message with his chosen children while on this earth. Although I am a sinner, just like you, God directed my life in a way to serve his purpose to reach his children. My prayer for everyone reading these words is to realize that God-from the moment of creation in your mother's womb until your eternal home with him-has connected the dots in your life to become his child and share his Word.

The Energy Switch
The Energy Switch

Author: Peter Kelly-Detwiler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1633886670

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The energy industry is changing, and it’s far more than just solar panels. Electric vehicles look to overtake gasoline-powered cars within our lifetimes, wind farms are popping up in unlikely places, traders are transforming energy into a commodity, and supercomputers are crunching vast amounts of data in nanoseconds while helping to keep our energy grids secure from hackers. The way humans produce, distribute and consume power will be cleaner, cheaper, and infinitely more complex within the next decade. In The Energy Switch, leading energy industry expert Peter Kelly-Detwilerlooks at all aspects of the transformation: how we got here, where we are going, and the implications for all of us in our daily lives. Kelly-Detwiler takes readers to the frontlines of the energy revolution. Meet Steve Collins, an executive from Commercial Development Corporation, the company that blew up two $570-million-dollar concrete cooling towers to create a staging ground for the new $70 billion U.S. offshore wind industry; Rob Threlkeld, a General Motors executive who convinced the auto giant to sign multiple 20-year renewable energy contracts worth hundreds of millions; Kevin McAlpin, a Texas homeowner who buys the power for his home on the electricity spot market – where prices can soar from less than one cent a kilowatthour to $9.00 over the course of a single day; Dr. Kristin Persson, who oversees a supercomputer that can process data at 30 quadrillion calculations per second, in the quest for better renewable energy and battery technologies; and John Davis, a Texas rancher who can keep his land intact, with help from the royalty payments from seven turbines spinning on his range. Energy creation and distribution has driven society’s progress for centuries. Today, people are increasingly aware that it is imperative that humans move towards a cleaner, digitized, and democratized energy economy. The Energy Switch is about that multi-trillion dollar transformation, told from the perspective of those leading us to that bright future.

Love Your Mother
Love Your Mother

Author: Mallory McDuff

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1506464440

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From elder voices opposing the Dakota Pipeline to young people running for office to advocate for change, women are making a collective difference on climate justice. These compelling stories of leaders from diverse backgrounds and vocations from each of the fifty US states offer inspiration for all hoping to effect change in the climate movement.

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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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Total Pages: 3265

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