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DOE Secretary Chu Speaks Our Language

Interesting rehash recently in TED Magazine's weekly special report (written by EleBlog's Joe Salimando) of the recent Great Energy Efficiency Day on Capitol Hill. First, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the keynote speaker, made two points of interest to NEMA members involved in high performance...

Published Tue, Mar 17 2009 8:00 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

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

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

Kepler Telescope blast-off – Technology is the engine of growth

Over the weekend the Kepler telescope was launched into space to hunt for earth-like planets. So who was this space craft named for? The name Kepler is familiar to me because it is the name of my printer at work – being a slightly nerdy, technology-based trade association NEMA names it meeting rooms...

Published Mon, Mar 09 2009 10:54 AM by Winstanley, Gerard

Filed under: General, Economy, Economics, Emerging Technologies

Introducing Smart Grid to the Public

Smart grid is front and center in the WaPo today. The lead article expounds on the benefits of overhauling the energy grid to create a more energy efficient, effective, safer electricity distribution system -- and the paper provides an excellent chart that gives a simplified explanation on how Smart...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 10:48 AM by golds

Filed under: Smart Grid

In this ("Card Check") Corner...Warren Buffett

Round 1 of the battle over the so-called " Employee Free Choice Act " (EFCA) is winding down as round 2 begins with the introduction of the legislation in both chambers of Congress today. And what a bout it will be...here are just a few things we have learned about EFCA in just the past few...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 9:31 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Labor, Card Check

Card Check is on the Table -- and the Die is Cast

Both chambers of Congress introduced their versions of card check today. As Caesar said, the die is cast. You very well may not see an issue that unites business like this again in your lifetime. Or at least for the next year. NEMA is doing its part to alert the membership -- discussion of our industry's...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 6:15 PM by golds

Filed under: Card Check

Smart Grid Economics

We'll take a break this weak from the doom and gloom that is economic data and try to get a little smarter about a complex issue: smart grid. With smart grid entering the policy arena center stage during the past couple of weeks, I thought it would be good to point out a great resource that would...

Published Fri, Mar 13 2009 1:52 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Smart Grid, Economics

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

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