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<p>* <b>Empowering decision makers</b> by setting the vision for a new approach to energy systems and providing the tools and plans to achieve these objectives<br> * Provides specific and <b>actionable</b> public policy and programme tools<br> * Help solve energy issues <b>worldwide</b> by illustrating how the lessons learned from the California energy crisis can be used to create an <i>agile energy system</i> for any region in a country</p> <p>Due to the recent catastrophic energy system failures in California along with those in the North-Eastern US and Southern Canada, London, and Italy, the time has come to proclaim the failure of deregulation, privatization or liberalization and propose a new energy system. This book shows in the first section, how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California: (1) major technological changes and commercialization, (2) regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, (3) inadequate and flawed economic models, (4) lack of vision, goals, and planning leading to energy failures, and (5) failure and lack of economic regional development.</p> <p>The second half of the book examines how "civic market", new economic mode

Author

Woodrow W. Clark Iii, Ted Bradshaw

Publisher

Elsevier Science

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780080444482

Subjects

Management, Business, Finance