Textbooks

Smart Grids (CC BY)

This textbook covers smart grids, a range of technologies that allow for more complex interactions between the utility (electricity) and consumer. Some of these interactions include better monitoring of energy generation, transmission, and usage so that a utility can better predict demand, pinpoint outages, and serve its customers. A smart grid allows for better integration of consumer generated power such as solar panels or turbines. In addition, a smart grid could result in lower utlity rates for customers through automating electical demand such as controlling charging car batteries when utility usage is low.

Videos

The Electric Academy (CC BY)

Sometimes electrical theory can come across as confusing. These videos are simple and to the point. This series of dozens of easy-to-understand videos was created by Chad Flinn when he was a trades instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.