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President's Budget Targets Our Aging Electrical Grid

President Obama's proposed new budget was just unveiled, and true to his word he's included modernizing the electrical grid as part of his proposed overhaul of the nation's infrastructure. For example, on pages 22-23: Modernize the Electric Grid. We know that the existing electricity grid...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2009 12:16 PM by golds

Filed under: Smart Grid

A Buyer's Market, Sort of

The banks remain the topic du jour as economists and policymakers debate stress testing , nationalization ( pro and con ), and the zombie apocalypse. We'll take a break from these topics and focus on the sector that propagated much of the mess in the first place: housing. In a previous post I indicated...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 3:09 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Small Businesses Getting Some New Attention

Nice "shout out" by our friends at the Electrical Trends blog. Allen Ray (Allen Ray Associates) and Dave Gordon (Channel Marketing Group) were among a half-dozen guest speakers who spoke to a group of our small electrical manufacturers -- see their rehash of the Small Manufacturers Forum on...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 8:37 AM by golds

Filed under: Small Business

Healthcare Information Technology (IT) – Challenges and Opportunities in 2009 and Beyond

The Economic Stimulus Package, contained within the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is a hugely important domestic initiative. Within ARRA is a $19,200,000,000 appropriation for implementation of healthcare information technology (HIT) including $2,000,000,000 for infrastructure...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 1:13 PM by Eaton, Richard

Filed under: medical imaging

"Card Check" Bad for Small Business, Too

Proponents of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (EFCA) have sworn that the bill's provisions - allowing unions to be formed when a majority of employees sign authorization cards (often in the presence of their coworkers and union organizers) and forcing employers and employees into...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2009 10:02 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Card Check, Labor Unions

A Good Read on Smart Grid

Very good report just released by ISO New England on smart grid policies, initiatives, and needs. For those searching for information on this issue, this provides a thorough overview. And whad'ya know, NEMA's mentioned on the first page (the Executive Summary, no less!) -- A fundamental assertion...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2009 8:02 AM by golds

Filed under: Smart Grid

Tough Times

Even as the new administration rolls out the dough from the stimulus package , offers up an outline to a new financial system rescue and proposes a program to stem the tide of foreclosures, U.S. manufacturers are in the midst of their worst run in decades. So far, industrial production has dropped 13...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2009 6:30 AM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Billions of Dollars for Energy-Efficient and Smart Grid Technologies

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill, which aims to rejuvenate the struggling U.S. economny. Within this bill were many NEMA-supported provisions. For the past several months, NEMA met with President Obama's staff and Hill staff to secure funding for NEMA's...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2009 10:39 AM by Hansen, Dain

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Economy, economic stimulus

Miscellaneous Dogs and Cats

This is another one of those “Amazing Fact” kind of stories about the DICOM* Standard. If a hospital is going to take an X-ray (or MR or CT or Ultrasound scan) of a patient, we expect them to keep a record of the patient’s name and, probably, some identifying number. They’ll want to know when the procedure...

Published Tue, Feb 17 2009 12:33 PM by Clark, Howard

The Next Shoe to Drop

So far the big news in real estate remains the depression-esque performance of the housing market. And with good reason, since the plunge in housing prices and surge in foreclosures has precipitated much of the economic mess we are now in. However, the commercial side of the real estate market is emerging...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2009 10:54 AM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics, economic stimulus

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