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Technological Systems and Momentum Change: American Electric Utilities, Restructuring, and Distributed Generation Technologies
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Hirsh, Richard F.; Sovacool, Benjamin K. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2006
The American electric utility system has been massively transformed during the last three decades. Viewed previously as a staid, secure, and heavily regulated natural monopoly, the system has shed elements of government oversight and now appears to be increasingly susceptible to terrorist attacks and other disruptions. Overturning the conventional…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Utilities, Science and Society, Social Action