Books:
Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring of the American Electric Utility System (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.)
Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983.)
Articles and chapters:
“Beyond Batteries: An Examination of the Benefits and Barriers to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Transition,” (with Benjamin K. Sovacool), Energy Policy 37 (Mar. 2009): 1095-1103. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.10.005
“Island Wind Energy: A Significant Potential U.S. Resource,” (with Benjamin K. Sovacool), Renewable Energy 33 (August 2008): 1928-35. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2007.12.006
“Assessing U.S. Energy Policy,” (Comment, with Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool), Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) 135 (#3, Summer 2006): 5-11.
“Technological Systems and Momentum Change: American Electric Utilities, Restructuring, and Distributed Generation Technologies,” (with Benjamin K. Sovacool), Journal of Technology Studies 32 (Spring 2006): 72-85.
"Power Struggle: Changing Momentum in the Restructured American Electric Utility System," Annales historiques de l’electricite (No. 2, June 2004): 107-123. Winner of the 2005 IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History presented by the Society for the History of Technology.
"Revamping and Repowering," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 15 (No. 2, Summer 2000): 12-18.
"Power Switch: Will the Restructured Electric Utility System Help the Environment?" co-authored with Adam H. Serchuk, Environment 41 (September 1999): 4-9; 32-9.
"PURPA: The Spur to Competition and Utility Restructuring," The Electricity Journal 12 (August/September 1999): 60-72.
"Condemned to Repeat? Historical Lessons, IOUs and Green Electricity," co-authored with Adam H. Serchuk, The Electricity Journal 11 (March 1998): 76-86.
"Momentum Shifts in the American Electric Utility System: Catastrophic Change or No Change at All?" (with Adam H. Serchuk), Technology and Culture 37 (No. 2, April 1996): 280-311. Republished as a chapter in Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Terry S. Reynolds, Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 413-44.
"Consensus, Confrontation and Control in the American Electric Utility System: An Interpretative Framework for the Virtual Utility Conference," in Shimon Awerbuch, The Virtual Utility (Kluwer Academic Press, 1997).
"The Background, Origins, and Formative Phase of the Advanced Customer Technology Test (ACT2) for Maximum Energy Efficiency," R&D report for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (with Bettye H. Pruitt), (San Francisco: PG&E, 1993).
"Renegotiating the Social Contract: Toward a New Consensus in the Electric Utility Industry," The Electricity Journal 5 (No. 10, December 1992): 51-7.
"Regulation and Technology in the Electric Utility Industry: Historical Analysis of Interdependence and Change," chapter in Jack High, ed., Economic Regulation: Theory and History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991).
"History and the Management of Technology," an excerpt from my recent book, in Electric Perspectives (published by the Edison Electric Institute) 14 (May/June 1990): 26-36.
"How Success Short-Circuits the Future," Harvard Business Review 86 (March/April 1986): 72-6.
"Westinghouse Electric Corporation--Steam Turbine Division (A) and (B)," Harvard Business School Case Study Series, Cases 0-687-036 and 0-687-037, 1986.
"Transforming the Electric Utility Industry," in Technology and Values: Decision Theory and Electric Rates (Davidson, NC.: Davidson College, 1984), pp. 1-32.
"Conserving Kilowatts: The Electric Power Industry in Transition," in Energy in American History, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1983. Also in Materials and Society 7 (1983): 295-305.
"Marginality and Innovation in Science," (with sociologist Thomas F. Gieryn), Social Studies of Science 13 (February 1983): 87-106.
"Microprocessors and Their Applications to Energy Related Uses," (with engineers Barney Capehart, John Richardson, and lawyer Lynne Capehart) Journal of Energy Systems 2 (no. 1, l982): 46-51.
"The Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae," Isis 70 (June 1979): 196-212.