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From the History of Electrical Power Engineering

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This chapter describes a brief perspective of development of electric power systems. This is not a detailed historical review, but rather it uses historical landmarks as a background to highlight the features and structure of the modern power systems discussed in the next chapters.

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Ushakov, V.Y. (2018). From the History of Electrical Power Engineering. In: Electrical Power Engineering. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62301-6_2

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