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Poutine
What first appeared as a fringe item on mobile kitchens in 1950s rural Québec can now be found everywhere from fine dining menus at top restaurants to fast-food chains. It has become a symbol of Québécois and Canadian cuisine and culture. In some US restaurants a variant of this hearstopping mix of fries, gravy and cheese is called "Disco Fries".
Electrical Power Reliability
Today we return our attention to the next update of IEEE 493 Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems; expanding collaboration with district energy managers who have both line side and load side relationships with merchant utilities.
North American Electric Grid Reliability Standards
NERC oversees six regional reliability entities and encompasses all of the interconnected power systems of Canada and the contiguous United States, as well as a portion of the Mexican state of Baja California. With links to updates on load shedding, critical infrastructure protection standards and data centers.
Reaction: June 16 Open Meeting
Rollout of the "2026 Summer Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment"
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.
Reliability Analysis for Power to Fire Pumps
One of the most common questions in the early stages of designing a large campus building is whether the normal utility supply to a fire pump is reliable enough to “tap ahead of the main” or whether the fire pump supply is so unreliable that it must have an emergency power source, typically an on-site generator. This study informs a critical decision for many buildings on large research universities.
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.
August 14, 2003
The University of Michigan district energy microgrid worked flawlessly before microgrids were cool.