ALWAYS ON
Fellows Coffee Shop
"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay." -- J.R. R. Tolkien
How to teach standards to students
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Joint Use of Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Facilities and Equipment
We follow concepts tracking in this draft standard that may be incorporated by reference in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code and the 2026 National Electrical Code; both of which inform decisions made by local and state energy regulators with oversight over the "cities-within-cities" which educational settlements in the United States often are.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. 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.
Reaction: September 10 Open Meeting
Rollout and approval of NERC's Reliability Standard CIP-014-4 covering physical security.
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 3
Today at the usual hour we sort through new proposals covering power-limited circuits with particular interest in applicability in data centers.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 15
Today examine the technical concepts under the purview of Code Panel 15; among them: Article 120 Part VI, Article 517 Health Care Facilities, Article 518 Assembly Occupancies, Article 520 Theaters...and Performance Areas, Article 525 Carnivals, Circuses, Fairs and Similar Events, Article 530 Motion Picture and Television Studios. New proposals will be received until April 9th.