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Zoi is No "Hoi Polloi"

News is out that POTUS has tapped the person he wants to run the all-important (at least, to us) DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy office: It's Cathy Zoi, CEO of Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and former chief of staff of the White House Office of Environmental Policy under...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 12:11 PM by golds

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid

What Hasn’t Changed in 82 Years

Cleaning out the files last Friday yielded an illuminating find--a 1927 copy of The National Electrical Manufacturers Association: A Brief Outline of its Function and Purpose (in the picture below, note the autographed instruction to return this to file). So what's changed since 1927, the year of...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 2:09 PM by goodwina

Filed under: Smart Grid, General, Standardization

A Thriftier U.S. Consumer?

In less than a year's time, U.S. households have gone from spending practically everything they earn, and then some, to socking away larger amounts of their incomes. It had been suggested that if the savings rate climbed even to levels seen during the 2001 recession, the current downturn would end...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 3:51 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Earth Hour vs. Human Achievement Hour

Maybe you've heard of Earth Hour -- the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored "event" when businesses, households, and even some municipalities around the world will turn their lights off for an hour to raise awareness of global climate change. It's scheduled to occur March 28 from 8:30 - 9...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 11:43 AM by golds

Filed under: Energy Efficiency

Thank you, Senator Specter...Great News for "Card Check" Opponents

Today, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced his intention to OPPOSE cloture and final passage of the misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act" (HR 1409/S 560), dealing a significant blow to the AFL-CIO and other proponents who had been counting on his vote to support the anti-democratic and anti...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2009 5:50 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Labor, Card Check

NIST on the Right Track

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced last week that it has created a new Smart Grid Interoperability Office to coordinate and accelerate the standardization framework initiative assigned to it under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Good move. An even better move...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2009 1:42 PM by Scolnik, Alvin

Filed under: Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Standardization, Emerging Technologies

The Color of Money

Well, we now know that Ben Bernanke is a man of his word. When the Fed suggested back in January that it would buy long-dated Treasurys, a lot of people just assumed it was a ploy to spook investors into re-directing capital out of the Treasury bond market and into riskier forays such as corporate bonds...

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 11:53 AM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Still Blowing in the Wind

The U.S. Supreme Court may eventually hear arguments involving a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last month that FERC cannot overrule a state's decision to reject a transmission project. The case involved two power companies that planned to build a high-voltage power line through multiple...

Published Thu, Mar 19 2009 1:36 PM by Walsh, Patricia

Filed under: Smart Grid

Capitol Hill is "Card Check" Buzzing...

As I “pounded the pavement” the past couple of days promoting NEMA and its activities on Capitol Hill, I couldn’t help but marvel at the sheer amount of buzz about the misnamed “ Employee Free Choice Act ,” (EFCA; HR 1409/S 560) that specter which threatens to kill the use of secret ballot in union elections...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 10:18 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Labor, Card Check

More on Secretary Chu

Steven Chu testified before the House Science and Technology Committee on St. Paddy's Day, and CQ Today Online News [subscription only] reported that the nation's energy secretary expressed frustation with the pace of Smart Grid development. Of course, NEMA CEO Evan Gaddis expressed similar frustration...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 8:47 AM by golds

Filed under: Smart Grid

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