ALWAYS ON
“Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”
American Institute of Physics: The command issued by the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finds its way into the archive of photographs of Nobel Laureates consorting with politicians at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.
NESC & NEC Cross-Code Correlation
Today at the usual hour we will review the 50-odd safety and sustainability oproposals we submitted to the IEEE and NFPA earlier this month. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Reaction: March 19 Open Meeting
Depending on interest the March 19th Open Meeting can be discussed during today's Open Door session. It is topically similar to provisions in the National Electrical Safety Code that support reliability during winter disasters and we are drafting comments on the 2028 NESC concurrently. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Electric Service Metering & Billing
The University of Michigan collaborated with the Edison Electric Institute in harmonizing the fine points of electric service in the 2002 National Electrical Code and the 2002 National Electrical Safety Code. You see our influence in Figure 230.1 for whom much credit belongs to Neil LaBrake and John Troglia. Today we explore the 2026 National Electrical Code with special interest in solar power.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We met both deadlines for the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code and the NFPA National Electrical Code. We are now in the process of getting ready for next week's meeting of the Education & Healthcare Facililties Committee.
Hegemon Cuyahoga & County Dublin
Here we shift our perspective 120 degrees to understand the point of view of one of several Producer interests in the American national standards system with a fortress balance sheet. The title of this post draws from the location of US and European headquarters. We list proposals by an electrical manufacturer claiming a part of the AI zeitgeist. The April 13 closing stock price of ETN ($403.36 per share) -- now above its July 30th yearly high of $399.56.