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The Politics and Policy of Job Creation

This week House and Senate leaders announced that Congress will do something to respond to rising unemployment before they adjourn for the year. I don't know any economist -- or anyone else, for that matter -- who would argue that the current 10.2% unemployment rate and lack of job creation in this...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 4:00 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Regulation, EFCA, Health Care, Congress, Tax, Jobs

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 Hansen, Dain

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

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 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

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 04 2009 12:45 PM by Hansen, Dain

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Regulation, electricity

An Unheralded -- but Great -- Pick for OIRA

Much media attention has been focused recently on President Obama's picks for his cabinet, most notably Bill Richardson , Eric Holder , and Tom Daschle . But one nomination has flown under the radar -- that of Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Read the...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2009 8:57 AM by golds

Filed under: Regulation

Energy Storage Technology Is Vital For "Smart" Grid Efforts

NEMA is taking the lead in making Smart Grid and Energy Storage technologies a reality. The NEMA Energy Storage Council (ESC) has held successful meetings where attendees have drafted a list of application categories that help define where Energy Storage (ES) and Distributed Generation (DG) technologies...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 12:08 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Economy, Environment, Regulation, transmission, grid, Intelligent Transportation Management, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, NARUC, electricity, demand response, wind, DC power distribution, Economics

Kudos to the European Commission on Revising the Metric Labeling Directive

We've just gotten word from our friends in Europe that the EU metric labeling directive has finally been modified FROM requiring all products (and product packaging, training materials, other collateral materials, etc.) entering the EC after December 31, 2009 to use only metric measures and nomenclature...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 8:23 AM by Scolnik, Alvin

Filed under: Regulation, Trade

HR 1 in the New Congress? Bound to be Card Check

Our annual membership meeting, Illuminations Weekend , has come and gone, but the memory of some of the discussions remains -- and in particular, the almost non-stop focus of the CEOs on one issue: "card check," or as US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue prefers to call it, "the end...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 12:19 PM by golds

Filed under: Regulation

Electrical Deregulation is good only if prices go down

As reported recently in the Washington Times , the District, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware have filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) against PJM Interconnect arguing that electricity auctions resulted in unreasonably inflated prices. The complaint relates...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 12:58 PM by Choinski, Scott

Filed under: Electrical Grid, Regulation

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