Two NEMA staff members, John Caskey from the Industry Operations and Eric Hsieh from Government Relations, participated in the Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Implementation Workshop. The objective of the workshop was to develop metrics for measuring progress toward the implementation of the Smart Grid. More than 140 experts from utilities, equipment...
Anyone who fills up their gas tank on a regular basis has undoubtedly noticed that gas prices have dropped over the past few weeks. Even with this lull, don't let this drop in price ease your mind that they will stay that way. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), under the Department of Energy, gas prices will only follow this...
Looking out of the window on this date in 2004, here is the picture I took from the NEMA Beijing office that we had opened a few months earlier: Yesterday, our NEMA Beijing colleague Jia Ke took this one from the same window: During the interval, while the construction crews converted an urban redevelopment site into a latter-day world famous landmark...
With inflation hitting a 17-year high (subscription required) and foreign economic growth tanking (subscription req'd) (not to mention another military conflict breaking out ), things economic certainly could be better. Of course they could be much, much worse. The advance estimate for real GDP in the second quarter showed growth of nearly 2 percent...
Once again, as is done every two years, hundreds of hours of valuable time have been expended to solicit, respond, collate, and distribute a report on the status of the adoption of IEC standards by the 21 member economies of APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Everyone in the private sector involved in this years’ effort, one that covered 168...
"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves" (Plato, 427-347 BC). As the November 4th election approaches, voters will be bombarded with campaign ads, flyers, web videos, emails --- all aimed at promoting a particular candidate and his or her position on issues. Of course...
As amazing as it sounds, there are candidates running for office that support certain union efforts to take away your right to vote in private when deciding on whether to join a union or not. By a 4-1 majority, employees support the current federally-supervised private ballot system, but the so-called Employee Free Choice Act would eliminate that right...
Underwriters Laboratories recently unveiled their latest holographic label . The gold hologram will replace the silver hologram that UL has used for the last 12 years. The UL holographic label is used on 32 common consumer product where the risk of counterfeiting is greater, including power supply cords, nightlights and ceiling fans. Almost 20 billion...
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past, oh say 18 months, you might have heard that the housing market has seen better days. Recently, though, opinions have surfaced that it may have finally hit rock bottom and some signs of improvement should be coming within months. For example, new and existing home sales , while still extremely...
NEMA's energy efficient products are playing a key role in conserving energy for our country, but this can't take the place of new energy supplies being sought and harvested responsibly within our own territory. Should we as the most powerful nation on earth really be satisfied with sitting on our hands begging OPEC to pump more and charge less...
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