LIGHTS OUT
The Electricity Crisis, The Global Economy, and
What it Means to You
Read--and listen to--the buzz about Lights Out.
Lights Out, the latest book by electricity-industry expert Jason Makansi, is written in an engaging style that puts the reader at ease with the complex scientific issues, engineering technologies, financial market drivers, public policy imperatives and environmental concerns that factor into our daily lives as electricity consumers. Lights Out offers powerful insights into hot button economic, environmental and political issues facing all America today with topics including:
An Investor's Guide to the Electricity Economy
Institutional and individual investors, analysts, policy-makers, researchers, and industry executives will find An Investor’s Guide to the Electricity Economy a lively and indispensable read.
Managing Steam
An invaluable guide and working tool for practicing engineers, Managing Steam examines the day-to-day challenges of working with industrial steam/condensate systems.
The following is an excerpt from the last chapter, A Vision for the Future, in which Mr. Makansi imagines delivering his “elevator speech” on the future of electricity to the President of the United States:
Make It Rumble When I Crank It Up
"On the other hand, unleash the power of technology and competitive consumer goods marketing at the retail end of the business. Government doesn’t have to impose competition in retail rates. No one “imposed” cellular phone technology on consumers. Yet, in about 10 years, it has completely changed the way we communicate. No one “decreed” that personal computing would make mainframes museum pieces.
Imagine going to your local electricity store, just like you go to a car dealership, and picking out the model you want custom-built into your new home. What this industry needs more than anything else are entrepreneurial companies that provide home-and business-based electricity systems with the same quality and attention to detail of a home entertainment system. I want to be able to pick from a variety of makes and models. Maybe I want one that makes me feel better because it offers the lowest carbon dioxide emissions. Maybe I just want to be the “baddest” dude in the neighborhood and pick out something that rumbles when I crank it up."
Prescriptive and provocative, Lights Out delivers an imminently readable framework for rethinking, rebuilding, and enhancing our entire electricity production and delivery infrastructure, and is a must read for anyone who cares about economic growth, energy independence, environmental sustainability, and the security of our infrastructure.