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NEMA Addresses SSL Dimming Challenges

The NEMA Lighting Controls and Solid State Lighting Sections have co-produced a white paper on the subject of dimming screw-base integrated ballast LED lamps. It is designated LSD-49 and is titled "Solid State Lighting for Incandescent Replacement—Best Practices for Dimming". NEMA and...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 10:51 PM by Boesenberg, Alex

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, General, Environmental Design, Environment, Emerging Technologies, High Performance Buildings, Energy Resources, EMF, electromagnetic fields, Harmonic current limit, Harmonics, energy, Solid State, Dimmers, SSL, LED, CFL

A Doozy of a New Year

I sure hope the holidays were restful for our nation’s lawmakers, because the second session of the 111 th Congress is shaping up to be a doozy. First, we have health care reform – the House and Senate approved their respective bills in the waning days of 2009, and the process wasn’t...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2010 4:42 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Economy, Environment, EFCA, climate change, Health Care, Congress, Chemicals Management, Jobs

Jobs vs. Regs: A Conundrum

The Obama administration finds itself in a dilemma. On the one hand, it desperately wants to create jobs. At his "Jobs Summit" last week, the president stated he is committed to ""ideas aimed at accelerating job growth and hiring as we emerge from this economic storm." And who...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 8:24 AM by golds

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environment

Congressional Unveiling of Major Energy Savings and Carbon Reduction...

Do you want to save 4.48-7.95 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon annually (equivalent to removing approximately between 3-5.4 million automobiles annually)? Do you want to save 25 to 42 Terawatt hours (billion kWh) per year (equivalent to 3 to 6 nuclear power plants or 6 to 10 coal-fired plants)? Do...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2009 9:22 AM by Dain Hansen

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, General, Electrical Grid, Environment, Regulation, renewable energy, electricity, economic stimulus, Emerging Technologies, climate change, Energy Resources, Congress, manufacturing, energy

Another "Baby Bottle" finding . . . . Whom do you believe?

This morning brought an announcement of another “official” government finding concerning the hazards of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical building block used primarily to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. If you’ve paid even minimal attention to current events the past few years...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2009 3:57 PM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Environment, Regulation

REACH – Two Years In

Earlier this week I attended a day-long seminar at a DC law firm that provided a status report on implementation of REACH, the ground-breaking regulatory program for chemicals under construction in the European Union. In a landmark “paradigm shift,” the entry-into-force of REACH in 2007 made...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 8:58 PM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Environmental Design, Environment

NEMA Call to Action Legislation is Introduced

Last week saw many months of effort by NEMA staff and member company reps rewarded by introduction in the US House of Representatives of HR 2420, The Environmental Design for Electrical Equipment Act ("EDEE Act"). This proposed legislation would codify into US law Phase I of the NEMA Call to...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 4:22 PM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Environmental Design, Environment

HPB Congressional Caucus Issues Recommendations on Federal Buildings Acquisitions

Several days ago the High Performance Building Congressional Caucus issued a series of recommendations regarding Producing High-Performance Federal Buildings . The first one on the list asks Congress to require that for all Acquisitions of Federal Buildings True Life-Cycle Analysis and Decision - Making...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 10:07 AM by Moldoveanu, Andrei

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environmental Design, Environment, economic stimulus, High Performance Buildings, Federal Buildings Acquisitions, HPBCC

Green Claims Advisory: Coming Soon to a Marketing Department Near You

I have been thinking a lot lately about the sea change in policy and the role of government we are witnessing here in Washington with the new Administration and the current Congress. While there is a much larger story to tell on that subject, it was a small story in today's Washington Post that caught...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 8:59 AM by Silcox, Clark

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environment

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 04 2009 5:45 PM by Eric Schweitzer

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

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