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Inventing a More Efficient Energy Future

A "call out" to my kids' Fairfax County high school, McLean , and particularly to three innovative freshmen who won regional honors in the recent North American ExploraVision science contest. As reported in our local Connection newspaper, the honors biology students opted to address the...

Published Wed, Apr 09 2008 2:49 PM by Stephen Gold

Filed under: Energy Efficiency

Commuter Taxes Today, Smart Traffic Solutions Tomorrow

While traffic congestion doesn’t typically make the list of top challenges facing this country, it’s on most Americans’ minds at least twice a day – when they’re commuting to and from work. Take the traffic in New York – please. Manhattan traffic is so bad so often that Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried...

Published Tue, Apr 08 2008 3:18 PM by Stephen Gold

Filed under: Intelligent Transportation Management

Meet the Guinea Pigs, Part One

Raising children often seems like a 24/7 press conference, with any topic possible yet no one topic predictable. So of course when I informed the family over dinner that we had won the “NEMA Light Bulb Sweepstakes” , the first question was naturally “What’s a sweepstake?” Patiently, I recounted how Evan...

Published Mon, Apr 07 2008 7:48 AM by Meakem, John

A letter from the counterfeit wars

This weekend I received an email from a consumer in the United Kingdom, who had just learned that a hair iron she had purchased from a website for a favorable price (90 pounds sterling, approximately US$180..00) turned out to be "faulty," and she was told by the manufacturer that it was counterfeit...

Published Sun, Apr 06 2008 1:12 PM by Silcox, Clark

Filed under: Anti-Counterfeiting

Buyers Beware – US Warns Beijing Olympic goers that they are responsible for what they buy

In a Reuters article this week, CPSC head Nancy Nord warned Americans attending the Olympic games not to buy cheap or counterfeit goods. In addition to cautioning Americans to “shop smartly,” Nord stated that customs officials would be stepping up their fight against counterfeit products during the games...

Published Sat, Apr 05 2008 5:00 PM by Lindsay, Christopher

Hammerin' Hank

Not a lot changed in the economic outlook this week, as the "r" word quickly becomes more and more part of the vernacular. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke thinks it a possibility. On the employment front, payrolls contracted during the first quarter of this year, manufacturing and...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 4:13 PM by Brian Lego

Filed under: Economy

Thanks for the Compliment

If you haven’t checking out BizCentral.org – a daily blog generated by a dozen or so trade associations, including NEMA – you should. It’s picking up readers every day, and no wonder: As Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner , observed today , “[BizCentral.org] brings together...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 2:46 PM by Stephen Gold

Filed under: General

Greetings from San Diego

From Customs import security regulations and operations at the Mexican border to freight bill payment best practices, from the future of surface transportation infrastructure to service options at the Port of San Diego , and quite a bit in between -- we are busy here in San Diego at the Joint Section...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 2:31 PM by Updyke, Craig

Filed under: General

Transmission Lines for Renewables Part 1: Southwest Minnesota

Back in 2003, the Minnesota PUC approved a series of transmission upgrades requested by Xcel energy. In order to credibly ensure that the transmission was in fact used for renewables (and not just cover for routine expansion) the PUC conditioned the project on Xcel entering into contracts with wind farms...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 10:01 AM by Eric Hsieh

Filed under: renewable energy, transmission, grid

Transmission Lines for Renewables

Texan ratepayers may have received a jolt yesterday from a potential $6.4 billion price tag for transmission lines to connect wind generators. The wind blows where the wind blows and so on and so forth for ocean tides and sunshine, but those places aren’t always where the load is. If we are to derive...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 9:58 AM by Eric Hsieh

Filed under: renewable energy, transmission

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