grid-basics history
Why this book is here
Balcony solar owners meet the grid as an interconnection agreement and a billing meter. This book explains why those documents look the way they do, and why the utility's side of the negotiation is a century-old story rather than a neutral technical verdict.
The summary
Bakke tells the cultural and technical history of the American power grid as a story of competing visions rather than neutral machinery, from Edison and Tesla through deregulation to rooftop solar fights. The grid comes across as a fragile, contested artifact whose rules were written by people, which means they can be rewritten. Her accounts of utility battles over net metering read differently once you see interconnection as a policy choice.
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