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Student-run coffee shop
"There’s a new coffee shop in Cleveland, and it’s in John Marshall High School. The "Lawyers Café" serves lattes, healthy fruit smoothies, and Rising Star coffee, and it’s completely student-run. While they brew up the drinks as baristas and handle the budgets on the finance team, all of the scholars are getting hands-on job skills and learning what it takes to run their own small business."
Happening Now: Groups A&B Public Comment Hearings
Link to this week's at Connecticut Convention Center and the monographs that will guide discussion and decisions.
Electric Load Growth
Claim: The U.S. power system already has significant "headroom" because it is designed for rare peak events. Leveraging modest flexibility from new loads can unlock this capacity quickly, enabling faster integration of high-growth loads while keeping costs lower for ratepayers. During today's session -- and ahead of our presentation at the May IEEE I&CPS Conference we revisit the February 19th webinar at the Nicholas School of the Environment.
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.
The $7 Billion Stargate “Barn”
Michigan’s largest one-time private investment $7 Billion. By comparison, the Mackinac Bridge built in 1957 cost about $1 billion in 2026 dollars.
Reaction: April 16 Open Meeting
Comments on last week's meeting. With link to latest Wood Mackenzie report on USA transformer shortage; relevant to discussion at the May IEEE I&CPS Conference in Lexington.
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 our on-site May 4th meeting in Lexington. Kentucky.
Hegemon Essex & Hauts-de-Seine Counties
Square D was founded in 1902 in Detroit, Michigan as fuse manufacturer McBride Manufacturing. In 1908 the company adopted the iconic "Square D" logo—a "D" in a square—reflecting its Detroit roots. Fast forward to 1991 when French multinational Groupe Schneider S.A. acquired Square D for $2.23 billion. Yesterday its stock price closed at ~ €273.60 on Paris Euronext. Its US Exchange ADR SBGSY closed at $65.50 -- both closing a recent highs but not record highs.