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H.R. 9801: GRID Power Act
Curated list of federal legislative actions affecting United States educational settlements.
Wires
Safe and sustainable electrical wiring is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of buildings, and it requires careful planning, skilled installation, and ongoing maintenance to ensure compliance with regulations and standards. Join us today at 15:00 UTC when we examine the state of best practice literature; largely the NEMA, ASTM and NFPA standards catalogs.
Management of Assets in Power Systems
The Japanese Standards Association is the Global Secretariat for a standardization project devoted to the discovery and promulgatation of common methods and guidelines for coordinated lifetime management of network assets in power systems to support good asset management. In addition, this may include the development of new methods and guidelines required to keep pace with development of electrotechnologies excluding generation assets; covered by other IEC standards.
Impedance Grounding for Electric Grid Surviability
Mike Anthony (University of Michigan), Jerry Jimenez (University of California Berkeley) and David Shipp (Eaton Corporation) discuss how resistance grounding of the campus medium voltage distribution grid supports earthquake survivability.
Quadrivium: Autumn
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. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. 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.
Data Center Wiring
Data centers are the beating heart of education settlements. Medium sized installations with 100-500-odd racks require 100-200 miles of wire and 50-100 miles of fiber. We coordinate writing the wiring safety regulations for data centers with the Joint IEEE Industrial Applications and Power & Energy Societies. Technical Committees responding to Public comment on the First Draft will meet in Long Beach during the last two weeks of October to complete work on the 2026 Edition.
Electrical Resource Adequacy
"Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement" -- attributed to Franz Kafka, and others.
Current Issues and Recent Research
We look ahead to the IAS General Conference in Phoenix in October We are ramping up the reliability utility distribution data collection project for the planned revision of IEEE 493 Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems. Second Draft Meetings on the 2026 National Electrical Code will be hosted in Redondo Beach, California during the same week.
Electrical Commissioning Specifications
The InterNational Electrical Testing Association (NETA) is an association of leading electrical testing companies comprised of visionaries who are committed to advancing the industry's standards for power system installation and maintenance to ensure the highest level of reliability and safety. The 2024 Edition of the ANSI/NETA Standard for Electrical Commissioning Specifications for Electrical Power Equipment and Systems was released on August 20th.