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WIND ENERGY - the good, the bad, and the ugly news!
I recently had the opportunity to attend the WINDPOWER 2008 Conference & Exhibition in Houston Texas. This event is reported to be the largest annual wind energy event in the world. There were approximately 770 exhibits and roughly 12,000 attendees. Actual wind turbine blades were on exhibit outside...
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Mon, Jun 16 2008 11:32 AM
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caskeyj
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Smart Grid
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renewable energy
New UL Holographic Labeling Requirements and NEMA Product Sections
Recently, Underwriters Laboratories sent a letter to NEMA Luminaire manufacturers announcing a January 1, 2009 requirement to implement holographic labeling in support of an expanding UL program to fight counterfeit products. Historically, UL has only applied these requirements to products made overseas...
Published
Fri, Jun 06 2008 2:25 PM
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boesenberga
Electrical Safety Under Siege
It has now become quite clear that Brussels and the information technology industry (on both sides of the Atlantic) are attacking on as many fronts as possible in their efforts to undermine the third-party-certification-based system that has been ensuring electrical safety in this country for over a...
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Mon, Jun 02 2008 7:51 AM
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Meakem, John
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Electrical Safety
Leaning and REACHing Too Far
This morning's Washington Post features a front-pager (so far left on the front page that it almost falls off) that fails to explain the real thrust of the European Union's new regulations on chemical safety and implies that U.S. authorities and industry fail to protect us from toxic materials...
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Thu, Jun 12 2008 10:34 AM
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updykec
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Environmental Design
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Trade
In Ohio Two Electrical Codes are Better Than One!
After a long and protracted debate, the Ohio Board of Building Standards (OBBS) voted to approve rules to extend Governor Ted Strickland’s emergency order to adopt the 2005 National Electrical Code ® for all 1, 2, & 3 family dwellings instead of the 2008 edition of the NEC, which had been previously...
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Wed, Jun 18 2008 7:24 AM
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baclawskiv
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Electrical Safety
Z Man
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down, the song goes. But for me, dark dank days generally bode well for a workout. So I grabbed my iPod and headed to the gym in the basement of the condo. I stretched, flexed, jumped on the recumbent bike, and hit quick start. Nothing. No blinking lights, no pedal...
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Tue, Jun 03 2008 3:39 PM
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Walsh, Patricia
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Electrical Safety
Pete Light -- A Cute Mascot for Energy Efficiency
We know we're making progress on the energy efficiency front when our products start appearing as adorable mascots. Take a gander at how the the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron is promoting energy efficiency at Peterson Air Force Base. Is Pete Light cute enough to squeeze or what? (Lawyer's notice...
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Wed, Jun 25 2008 1:59 PM
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golds
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Energy Efficiency
NEMA Premium Efficiency Transformers Program Gets an International Rollout
Yesterday morning at their annual meeting in Toronto, EEI Executive Director Diane Munns announced the creation of a joint program between EEI and NEMA to provide and procure efficient distribution transformers ahead of the Department of Energy's 2010 mandate . With CEOs from Consolidated Edison...
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Wed, Jun 18 2008 9:31 AM
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Hsieh, Eric
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Energy Efficiency
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grid
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trasnformers
CPSC announce recall of counterfeit circuit breakers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) last week issued a recall on counterfeit circuit breakers sold by the d istributor Specialty Lamp International Inc., of Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Counterfeit Circuit Breakers are labeled as “Square D” and approximately 371,000 have been distributed....
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Wed, Jun 04 2008 8:41 AM
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Winstanley, Gerard
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Anti-Counterfeiting
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CPSC
Smart Grid – Ready for the Dictionary?
Lexicographers record when and how often a new word or phrase in used in the print media to identify when new words enter the language. This week millions of readers of The Economist have been introduced to a phrase that is already very familiar to us at NEMA – “Smart Grid”. In the magazine’s Special...
Published
Thu, Jun 26 2008 10:53 AM
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Winstanley, Gerard
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Energy Efficiency
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Electrical Grid
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