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Hand Protection for Electrical Shock and Arc Flash Hazards
Hand protection has evolved in recent times, perhaps making the greatest advancements in the past decade. Although the primary focus of this article is hand protection for electrical shock and arc flash hazards, it also explores the multihazard protection incorporated...
Not just a ‘boondoggle’: State regulators, industrial companies push for cost effective transmission
Proactive planning, incentives and competitive solicitations can help control transmission costs, the Brattle Group’s Johannes Pfeifenberger said. With transmission costs expected to continue increasing, state utility regulators, energy consumers and transmission...
Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Burgum to run Interior, new national energy council
President-elect Donald Trump said his administration will “dramatically” increase baseload power generation, which “will reduce the cost of electrical bills that continue to skyrocket.” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, will run the newly formed National...
Texas PUC approves $3B Oncor system resiliency plan
Texas lawmakers authorized System Resiliency Plan filings last year and Oncor’s was the first to be approved. Regulators are also considering submissions from AEP, Texas-New Mexico Power and Entergy. The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday approved Oncor...
Xcel CEO Says Flip the Grid Process and Build Power Lines First
The US should build electric transmission lines in places with strong clean-energy potential rather than waiting for solar and wind farms to be developed first, Xcel Energy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bob Frenzel said in an interview Monday. Installing power lines...
Sara to soon form in Caribbean, track into Florida next week
All eyes are on a tropical depression in the Caribbean which will become a tropical storm, trigger life-threatening flooding rain in Central America and is forecast to track into Florida next week. A batch of showers and thunderstorms over the central Caribbean was...
