Blackout

Gordon L. Weil
May 2006     ISBN: 1560258128

In August 2003, the lights went out across North America, from Michigan and Ohio and Canada's largest province of Ontario to New York and New Jersey. No one has ever been held accountable for this billion-dollar catastrophe.

In Blackout, Gordon L. Weil tells the story of how Thomas Edison's secretary began a vast national industry, how Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal tried to rein it in, and how this market dominated by a few large companies has profited from deregulation, with no benefits to consumers. He also explains the origins of the Enron scandal, as well as recounting how the famous blackout of 2003 could have been avoided--if only a few trees had been trimmed.

Gordon L. Weil has been a licensed power broker and energy consultant representing customers across the United States and Canada. He formerly headed the national organization of state energy agencies, advised the US Department of Energy on emergency planning, and served as Maine's first public advocate. This is his fourteenth book.