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Ghosts of Elections Past, Present and Yet to Come

I keep seeing these ads on TV for the upcoming movie " Ghost of Girlfriends Past " which seems to be about some commitment-phobic guy coming to the realization that he let the love of his life get away and he needs to get her back. The Dickensian look at relationships from the "what was...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 12:23 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Elections

Crush for Credit - Rebate Program for NEMA Premium Motors

Before Congress left town, a NEMA advocated provision was adopted into the U.S. Senate's new energy bill. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) offered an amendment that would create a NEMA-Premium "crush for credit" motor rebate program . The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 12:45 PM by Hansen, Dain

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Regulation, electricity

Stars of ENERGY STAR, Lights of Tomorrow

The ENERGY STAR agencies came together for an evening last week to celebrate the top performers among their many partner companies and organizations striving to advance energy efficient product performance and consumer satisfaction. Of course, NEMA member companies were well represented in the honor...

Published Mon, Apr 06 2009 10:20 PM by updykec

Filed under: Energy Efficiency

Fact Versus Fiction on Energy Storage Systems

Often, important emerging technologies get caught up in misconstrued facts and misunderstandings of capacities and roles in an already technology-driven and confusing world. An example of this can be found in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, "Getting Real on Wind and Solar" by James Schlesinger...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 5:45 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Environment, Regulation, renewable energy, transmission, grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, demand response, wind, economic stimulus, meters, Emerging Technologies, Energy Storage

A Campaign to Eliminate Electrical Counterfeit Products

For years, the counterfeit products that law enforcement officials focused on most were products like watches, DVDs, purses, and shoes. Not that I don't sympathize with these industries -- counterfeiting is damaging to society because it diminishes the value of intellectual property, and in extreme...

Published Fri, Apr 03 2009 7:46 AM by golds

Filed under: Anti-Counterfeiting

NEMA Energy Storage Council and ARRA

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped NEMA pull together experts from around the country to sit together under the canopy of a transparent working group. We're on the fast track to establishing an Energy Storage Council (ESC) where storage manufacturers and industry stakeholders ...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2009 12:10 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Smart Grid, Energy Storage

Electronic Medical Records – Help Needed

Recently, I visited my internist for the obligatory six-month check up. In the course of this visit, he reached into my folder and pulled out a paper report of the results from the diagnostic laboratory that had run a battery of blood tests. Then, to help interpret them, he went back into the folder...

Published Mon, Apr 06 2009 11:08 AM by Clark, Howard

Filed under: medical imaging

New Certification Scheme in the Gulf Region

We have been advising member companies for a decade about electrical product standardization and certification in the Persian Gulf region. When we started the NEMA Global Initiative in the late 1990's most of the information we had was second hand. That changed when we hopped on a plane and visited...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2009 8:27 AM by Eckhart, Eugene

Filed under: Conformity Assessment

Card Check - Down, But Not Out

Opponents of the anti-democratic, anti-competitive "Employee Free Choice Act" (HR 1409/S 560) scored another victory this week when Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) announced her intention to vote against cloture and passage of the legislation. Speaking at the Little Rock Political Animals Club...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2009 10:22 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Card Check, Labor Unions

Misinformation at a California Conference

This week I flew to the West Coast to make a presentation on behalf of several NEMA sections at a solid waste management industry conference. The morning after my arrival, I took the opportunity to stroll the conference exhibit hall, where a number of waste industry product and service providers were...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2009 10:28 AM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: General, Education and Training, Environment

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