This article is based on the discussion at a workshop conducted by EPRI and Carnegie Mellon University’s Electricity Industry Center on April 3, 2006, on issues surrounding the aging electric industry workforce. The event was co-sponsored by the American Public Power Association (APA), the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). Forty se...

The past several years have seen marked changes in the institutional structures of the electric power industry in many countries. In most cases the driving forces for change have come from the governments. Often the objective is to introduce more competition and to increase private sector ownership of the electric supply industry. The overall aim regardless of the drivers, is to reduce the pric...

Recent changes to the electric power industry through deregulation and restructuring have had a considerable effect on power engineering education internationally. A number of Australian universities have also noticed a decline in the number of students interested in power engineering subjects, leading to the fewer graduates with power engineering knowledge. With a reduction in graduates and a ...

Few U.S. industries have been as directly affected by public policy as has electric power. From its beginning, the industry that provides us with electric energy has been at the center of shifting public debates over its structure and the form of its ownership. New policies drastically affecting the industry have been adopted in response to serious problems. Those policies, however, either fail...