'This is such a timely book. Combining extraordinary historical insight with the sharpest analysis of where we are now, Walt Patterson carves out the most applied and practical of "road maps" as to where we need to go if we are to deliver a genuinely sustainable electricity system for the future. As we go into a period of considerable turbulence, primarily because of the impacts of climate change, Keeping the Lights On will undoubtedly be seen as a very well-informed Guidebook. — Jonathon Porritt CBE, Chair, UK Sustainable Development Commission

If you aren't familiar with Patterson's earlier works, this is the book that will convince you that you need to re-think everything you ever thought you knew about the future of electricity. — Prof David Fisk CB FREng, BP/RAEng Prof Engineering for Sustainable Development, Imperial College London

'Please read this book. It demystifies and reorganises how we should think about energy, illuminating policies for creating a more resiliant grid, strengthened not weakened by use of more 'free' infrastructure energy (wind, water, sun), less fuel (gas, coal, oil), and a two-way relationship with a very large number of consumers/generators. We must meet targets for climate changing emissions (60% - 90% by 2050 some say) and I have long thought Walt Patterson's eminently sensible ideas are the way to do it. — Sara Parkin OBE, Founder Director & Trustee, Forum for the Future