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Resolute Coffee & Bistro
Arguably: An educational settlement conveying the soul of Western Civilization to the next generation needs only five buildings -- a chapel, an "Old Main" for classrooms and administration, a library, a dormitory, an athletic field - all supported by an urban ecosystem of pubs and coffee shops. Brook and Molly here explain how this works in Birmingham Alabama.
Solar
Last year we separated our coverage of solar energy standards from our standing electrotechnology colloquia we every Tuesday with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Join us today at 15:00 UTC with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Chanson de matin Op.15 No. 2
Father (Reginal Rodgers, Professor of Music) and son Thomas Rodgers, perform Edward Elgar's "Morning Song Op.15 No. 2" composed in 1889.
Community Solar Garden
The Upper Midwest of the United States does not present itself as a sunshine-rich location. Lissa Pawlisch of the Clean Energy Resource Team explains how recent changes in state regulation permits solar energy to be sold directly to consumers rather than add electricity to the utility grid; thus avoiding some of the interactive distributed resource technical problems addressed in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Solarvoltaic PV Systems
Today we explore the technicals of roof mounted solarvoltaic panels -- substantially different than the systems that span acres at grade level in formerly open spaces and often run by solar aggregators. National Electrical Code Articles 690 and 691 set fire safety and shock hazard standards that have been moving mighty fast lately. Comments on the First Draft of the 2026 Edition will be received until August 27th.
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
This title sets the standard of care for construction, operation and maintenance of power and telecommunication infrastructure on the supply side of the point of common coupling. It is the first title to reach for when disasters happen; with most public utilities bound to its best practice assertions by statute. Proposals for changes to appear in 2028 Edition will be received until 15 May 2024.
Electrical Resource Adequacy
Link to the April 25th Open Meeting. Previous discussions linked here center on supply, transmission and distribution reliability. Our interest lies in closing a technical gap that exists upstream from the building service point and downstream from the utility supply point. Some, not all of it, can be accomplished with titles in the IEEE catalog. Given the strength of vertical incumbents in the electric power domain, it is time to expand reliability concepts into the ASHRAE, NFPA and ICC catalogs
Energy Standard for *Sites* and Buildings
To paraphrase Marc Andreessen: "Building standards are eating the world and ASHRAE is eating standards." Just when you thought ASHRAE's claim to energy regulation could not get any larger, it has recently appropriated everything *between* buildings in its scope. At least two energy/building enclosure related redlines are open for consultation through May 27th.