Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

The most complete and current guide to electrical engineering

This thoroughly updated resource offers comprehensive information on the generation, transmission, distribution, control, operation, and application of electric power. The book includes expanded, in-depth coverage of AC and DC transmission technologies, power system protection, and insulation coordination and analysis.

Revised to fully with the latest codes and regulations, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Seventeenth Edition, features explanations and illustrations from internationally recognized engineers. You will get brand-new sections on power generation control, wind power generation, solar and photovoltaic generation, geothermal and emerging renewable power generation, electric machines, and much more.

• Explains the theory, analysis, design, and application of all components
• Contains hundreds of detailed illustrations
• Features contributions from more than 100 global experts

Surya Santoso, Ph.D. is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-author of Electrical Power Systems Quality and Handbook of Electric Power Calculations.

H. Wayne Beaty is the former managing editor of Electric Light and Power and is editor of McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook of Electrical Engineering, Sixteenth Edition, co-editor of McGraw-Hill's Handbook of Electric Power Calculations, and Electric Power Systems Quality, Third Edition.

Donald G. Fink (deceased) as director emeritus of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).