
Building the Energy Infrastructure of Tomorrow
By Aiman JoeHanzLength4h 17m
About this audiobook
Every other infrastructure is a machine that eats energy, and the energy layer is the machine that feeds them all: the fuel and the turbine, the line and the substation, the market and the operator, the blackout and the re-foundation. This structural guide dissects the energy machine layer by layer - the generation fleet and the thermodynamics that tax every conversion; the synchronous grid as the largest single machine ever built, spanning a continent at one frequency; the distribution weave of the last mile; the market that trades a product decaying in real time at prices that swing a thousandfold; the storage layer's time machine and long-duration frontier; the demand side where the meter becomes a portal and the customer a generator; the reliability machine that holds nine nines against physics and the cascade; the fifty-year transition reroute of the century's largest capital stock; and the intelligent re-foundation rebuilding the whole engine while it runs.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length4 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Energy Machine — What Energy Infrastructure Actually Is
4Chapter 2: The Generation Layer — Fuel, Sun, Wind, and the Conversion of Heat to Work
5Chapter 3: The Grid Layer — Transmission, the Synchronous Machine, and the Largest Engine Ever Built
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6Chapter 4: The Distribution Layer — The Last Mile, the Substation Chain, and the Local Weave
7Chapter 5: The Market Layer — Price, the Merit Order, and the Trading of the Invisible
8Chapter 6: The Storage Layer — Batteries, Reserves, and the Machine's First Memory
9Chapter 7: The Demand Layer — Efficiency, the Negawatt, and the Customer Who Is Also a Generator
10Chapter 8: The Reliability Layer — Blackouts, Ancillary Services, and the Nine-Nines Machine
11Chapter 9: The Transition Problem — Decarbonization, Stranded Assets, and the Fifty-Year Reroute
12Chapter 10: The Re-Foundation — Machine Intelligence, the Microgrid, and the Next Machine
13Copyright
14About the Author
15About this Series
16Connect