Power Quality Primer

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McGraw Hill Professional, Sep 26, 2000 - Technology - 360 pages
Make power deregulation work for you

With deregulation, the vast pool of power customers is up for grabs. As a utility, are you ready to compete? As a customer, are you ready to choose? In Power Quality Primer, Barry Kennedy gives you specifically designed, ahead-of-the-curve methods. Utilities will learn how to:
Plan successful competitive strategies for every aspect of the business
Market proactive solutions to customers before needs arise
Improve transmission and distribution system quality, efficiency, and power factor performance
Eliminate technical problems such as over-voltages and poor grounding
Design and deliver effective simulations
Build customer-winning, customer-keeping quality, quality control, and service into all facets of your enterprise As a customer, you’ll learn how to pick the utility that meets your power quality needs…solve your own power quality problems and find cost-effective solutions…and perform your own power quality survey

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Contents

Introduction
1
Power Quality Standards
10
Power Quality Characteristics
27
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Barry Kennedy is a senior electrical engineer and project manager responsible for transmission and distribution system efficiency, power quality, and power factor research and development for Bonneville Power Administration, a successful supplier of electricity to retail utilities and large industrial companies. Well-known within the industry for his seminars and consulting work preparing power companies and their customers for deregulation, he had developed notable methods, guidebooks, software, training programs, and solutions. Mr. Kennedy is also author of Energy Efficient Transformers. He is the project manager and developer of the Workbook for Utility and Industrial Applications and the Industrial Power Factor Analysis Guidebook. He resides in Portland, Oregon.

Bibliographic information

TitlePower Quality Primer
Electrical Engineering Primer Series
McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering
Primer series (McGraw-Hill).: Electrical engineering
Primer series
AuthorBarry W. Kennedy
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2000
ISBN0071344160, 9780071344166
Length360 pages
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Technology & Engineering / Electrical
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