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After Harvard, the College of William & Mary, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, was founded on February 8, 1693, through a royal charter granted by King William III and Queen Mary II of England. Named in their honor, the college aimed to establish a "perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the Virginia colony; affectionately called "Alma Mater of the Nation".
‘CPanel’ Update Status
Since February 16 our website has been undergoing a major upgrade that enables instant updates across all time zones and all our social media platforms. Hopefully it will be complete by end of this month. We will still host our Daily Colloquia at the usual hour and our topics will remain as posted on our CALENDAR.
Circuit Neighbors
Today we explore the fine points of a university-owned, "utility-like" high voltage grid with resident cogeneration running in parallel with a merchant utility. We use the North American Blackout of 2003 to sort through a few specifics that made the University of Michigan's campus power grid an example of how hyperscale data center owners can run interactively in regional power system cutsets.
Quadrivium: Winter
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 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Grandfather Provisions
Today at the usual hour we examine a few proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety that involve the degree to which merchant utilities should be required to replace system elements with elements meeting a higher standard than the standard to which the system element was originally built. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
NESC 2028 Call for Comment
The NESC Subcommittees have specifically requested public comment on ten proposals from affected interests. Today at the usual hour we will discuss them in detail and draft responses to be submitted before the April 9th deadline.
High Voltage Electric Service
There has been some considerable re-organization of low, medium and high voltage concepts in the 2023 National Electrical Code and more will roll out in the 2026 revision. Join us today at with the login credentials above to sort through these and other issues time allows. We coordinate our time on this topic with the 4-times monthly meetings with IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).