Electric Power Distribution Engineering

The book contains the full theory necessary for the electrical distribution networks (e.g the simplified voltage drop calculations which are not included in many books about power systems) but also the real applications (e.g. real transformer connections and capacitors installations). I believe that one of the reasons that this book is great is that one of its references is a book written by real engineers back from 1965, when the engineers knew how to make real calculations by hand and not by software. If you solve the examples and the exercises , you really feel that you deal with 'actual distribution engineering'. I enjoy it.

Good quality and good content about transformers and distribution systems!!

I thought this did quite a good job covering not just the distribution side, but some aspects of transmission and generation, with good supporting graphics. It includes some nice sections on SCADA/smart grid operations and future technologies as well. Overall one of the best electrical references I've ever had. However, I find a lot of the terms that are discussed in the book and rather important in general are missing from the index or glossary - which causes a lot of time to be spent searching where it is that they are covered. Also, having vocabulary lists at the beginning of some of the chapters (and some major sections) is nice, but the lists don't seem to be in any order - which can sometimes cause an annoyance when you're trying to recall a specific term mid-chapter.

A great information rich book.Poor quality print.

This book has all the information I am using in my job. I recommend it.

Encyclopedic book. Low level just like other books by the same author. Avoids the more technical aspects. No load flow analysis. Author probably does not know much mathematics other than basic algebra.

The book didn't match the description. No more buying books on line

Overall, this book is a decent reference for someone in the electric distribution area. It covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from system planning to SCADA to DER, and is generally written in clear, accessible language. It also includes some worked sample problems. My main reason for giving it only three stars is that it isn't very well edited. I've noticed several places where entire sentences are repeated in the same paragraph, or where words were missing or used incorrectly. In addition, a couple of the worked examples that I've tried had their units mixed up, e.g., wind speed given in mph, but converted to m/s using the conversion factor for ft/s. So, be careful if you're using this to study for the PE exam. On the other hand, it's great if you need to brush up on a topic that you haven't studied for a while and need something a bit more in-depth than what Wikipedia would provide.