Reddit mentions of Power System Analysis and Design, Fifth Edition

> Natural gas and renewables are much cleaner than coal, but a lot of peoples' power is still coming from coal.

That's not how the grid works dude. Your post covers about 5% of the actual picture here. It's late, you'll have to read some books, I don't want to get into this now. But read these: (The Bin Wu one is fucking amazing, read it twice)
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470593652.html
https://www.amazon.ca/Analysis-Electric-Machinery-Drive-Systems/dp/047114326X

This wouldn't hurt:

https://www.amazon.com/Power-System-Analysis-Design-Fifth/dp/1111425779/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JWX7BQ73ZBNN7BCED44E (I have the 3rd edition, but the content is more or less the same)

Source: EE (CEAB)

EDIT: Oh! My point was...total shitpost on your end

Like dtfgator said start looking through the [IEEE PES] (http://www.ieee-pes.org/) stuff. I am currently and undergrad doing some research in this, so I don't have much field experience. My experience so far has just been setting up simulations (some hypothetical and modeled our campus grid) in Power World and ATP. I'm sure there are many other programs that have advantages over these two but it's what I'm familiar with.

Knowledge of how to design and analyze a power system is an obvious necessity. I have not designed anything yet, but have learned fundamentals from this book which also has a lot of examples to use or set up in Power World. There are also a few courses on youtube somewhere.

My school had a course that all EEs took that covered the basics like ideal transformers and induction motors. Then there were power specific courses that got into more detail with phasors, per unit, etc. This was the book a few of the power specific classes at my school used.