Electrical Distribution Engineering By Anthony J. Pansini

The steady improvements to the electric distribution systems have been joined by new concepts that include generation, conservation and storage of electricity, part of the Energy Policy Act dictated by Congress in 2005. The act recognizes changes in factors affecting the generation of electric energy and now includes the field of its distribution. These include increasing concerns for the environment (global warming, etc.), the ever widening gap in the supply and demand for fossil fuels (mostly oil, brought about in part by the modernization and industrialization of such countries as China and India), reflected by the rising prices of these commodities as well as by the declining availability of capital for their required development.
       The act spells out in some detail plans for the use of replenishible “green” fuels and for conservation of existing ones. Involved are such “exotic” fuels as wind, sunshine (solar energy), geothermal (volcanic hot springs, etc.) hydro plants, and natural gas (methane). The last is actually a non-replenishible fossil fuel, but as its emissions are relatively clean, it is included as a preference to coal and oil. The act also includes suggestions and regulations as well as incentives and penalties for its compliance, especially as they pertain to the so-called “green” fuels.
       Relatively new modes of operation as cogeneration and distributed generation are included in furthering the goals of the Energy Policy Act that will more fully engage the cooperation and coordination of the distribution engineer with the requirements of the consumer.
       And so, the distribution engineer, while keeping his weather eye on innovations and improvements in materials and methods, now enters solidly into the field of power generation from “green” fuels added to those of cogeneration and distributed generation. What next?
       A Texas-size thank you is extended to friends and former colleagues Richard E. Gibbons and Kenneth W. Smalling, and to The Fairmont Press for their aid and encouragement. And no less for her patience and understanding to my beloved wife of sixty years.
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