The increasing complexity of emerging business models and a growing societal concern with the integrity of financial reporting now leads to new emphases on accountability within large, publicly traded energy corporations. This book emphasizes the implications these issues have in the electric industry, a traditional infrastructure that underlies the digital society and now faces extraordinary environmental, regulatory, and technological uncertainties. It informs professionals in a variety of fields of the best current thinking on business risk - how it can be understood, how it can be managed, and how it can be communicated to diverse constituencies.