ALWAYS ON
Ploughman’s Lunch
AROUND THE FARM TABLE: Inga makes a ploughman’s lunch -- bread, cheese, chutney, pickles, butter etc. -- for a world champion sheepherder, picks up some heritage wheat in Mount Pleasant, learns how to grow herbs near Amery and visits Wisconsin’s very own Jung Seed in Randolph.
Summer Sabbatica
Even rest has its measure. While topic presentation will continue according to our CALENDAR our daily colloquia will not resume until August 20.
Standard Specification for 100 % Cotton Denim Fabrics
"You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it." – Edith Head
Metering and Billing
Electrical meters, used for measuring electricity consumption, must comply with various codes and standards to ensure accuracy, safety, and reliability. Today at the usual hour – from the user point of view – we will review the status of key codes and standards relevant to electrical meter manufacturing, primarily focusing on North American standards. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
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.
Energy Standard for Sites & Buildings: Metering
Section 8 of ASHRAE 90.1-2019 (Electrical Power) includes provisions for electrical metering for new buildings larger than 25,000 square feet; in buildings with tenant spaces, individual tenant spaces larger than 10,000 square feet must also be separately metered. Buildings with electrical loads exceeding specified thresholds must have additional metering to measure energy use for various subsystems.
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.
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.