Energy Metrics: Examining Traditional and Renewable Sources [From the Editor]

Presents an overview of this issues topics: the attempt to present a worldwide view of what is driving the electricity matrices in different parts of our world and this issue's "History" that discusses the IEEE Milestone event honoring the Edison Pearl Street Station on New York City's Pearl Street (which to the author's amazement had never occurred given its significance). Also notes a feature recently posted on the PES Web site, an index of all feature articles that have appeared in this magazine from its inception through 2010. The direct link to the PDF file is http://www.ieee-pes.org/ images/pdf/2003-2010-paem-index.pdf .