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Bud Break
This event is part of a series that keeps cold climate grape growers up to speed on what tasks to do at key points in the growing season. Each session will review timely management steps, highlight a topic, and then open the floor to questions and discussion. This week, the focus topic is comparing bird control options, in response to high demand for this topic. However, there will be plenty of time to talk about critical bud break tasks as well.
The speaker is Annie Klodd, Fruit Extension Educator at UMN Extension. Additional fruit specialists from UMN Extension and UW Madison, including Leslie Holland and Jed Colquhoun, will be in attendance to answer questions and lead discussion.
Spring Week 22 | May 26 – June 1
“After the Prom” 1957 Norman Rockwell
Monday | May 26 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC
Memorial Day
Tuesday | May 27 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC
Wednesday | May 28 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC
Thursday | May 29 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC
Friday | May 30 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC
Saturday | May 31
Sunday | June 1
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign operates a large and complex district energy system to provide heating, cooling, and electricity to the campus. According to the latest available data from 2020, the UIUC district energy system includes:
- 53 MW of electricity generation capacity
- 1.6 million square feet of building space heated with steam
- 17,000 tons of chilled water capacity for air conditioning
- 63 miles of underground piping for steam, chilled water, and condensate distribution
The UIUC district energy system is also designed to be energy-efficient and sustainable, with various measures in place to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, such as high-efficiency boilers and chillers, thermal energy storage, and the use of renewable energy sources like solar power.
Facilities & Services: Utilities & Energy Services
Guide for Safe Confined Space Entry and Work
Plymouth State University | Grafton County New Hampshire
Guide for Safe Confined Space Entry and Work
This guide supplements existing confined space regulations, standards, and work practices by providing additional guidance for safe confined space entry and work. References are provided throughout the guide and annexes to direct the reader to other regulations and standards or other content that might be applicable.
This guide provides the following:
Information to identify, evaluate, assess, and then eliminate, mitigate, or control hazards that are present or that may occur during entry into or work in and around confined spaces.
Information on how to understand confined space safety and safeguard personnel from fire, explosion, and other health hazards that are uniquely associated with confined spaces.
Information regarding training, qualifications, and competencies required for personnel responsible for confined space hazard identification, hazard evaluation, and hazard control for personnel who work in and around confined spaces.
Information on confined space rescue best practices.
Information concerning confined space hazards and safety practices that are applicable to all types of confined spaces.
Information regarding hazards adjacent to confined spaces that might affect the safe conditions necessary for entry and work in a confined space.
This guide provides criteria for eliminating, mitigating, or controlling hazards in the confined space design phase.
Smart Energy
Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne / International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life
We follow the administration of the the US National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission; a member of an international committee administered by the International Electrotechnical Commission developing global Smart Grid and Smart City concepts. Related developments happen in the following committees:
TC 8 System aspects of electrical energy supply
SC 8A Grid integration of Renewable Energy Generation
SC 8B Decentralized Electrical Energy Systems
TC 13 Electrical energy measurement and control
TC 21 Secondary cells and batteries
21/1166/CDV IEC 61427-2 ED2: Secondary cells and batteries for renewable energy storage – General requirements and methods of test – Part 2: On-grid applications | Close Date: 2023-06-16
SC 23K Electrical Energy Efficiency Products
TC 82 Solar photovoltaic energy systems
TC 120 Electrical Energy Storage Systems
TA 19 Environmental and energy aspects for multimedia systems and equipment
We limit our interest to electrotechnology interoperability issues that are present in education communities (rather than product related issues). We track coordinated action among the ISO/IEC/ITU:
ISO/IEC/ITU coordination – New work items (January 2023)
Note that there is what may appears to be a “competitor” standardization project at the ISO — TC 274 Lights and Lighting. There is enough coordination between the IEC and the ISO that we ignore the slight overlap for our purposes.
We also collaborate with other US-based and other international universities through several societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The IEC also has several committees where leading practice is discovered and promulgated that influence electrotechnology research agendas in both the academic and business side of the education facility industry:
SyC Smart Cities: Electrotechnical aspects of Smart Cities
The ambitions of this batch of documents is to formalize the landscape of the emergent Smart City (and, accordingly, #SmartCampus) by doing the following:
- Providing the rationale for the market relevance of the future standards being produced in the parent IEC technical committee.
- Providing an indication of global or regional sales of products or services related to the TC/SC work and state the source of the data.
- Providing standards that will be significantly effective for assessing regulatory compliance.
In electrotechnology, a great deal of research is conducted in US colleges and universities — some of it funded by federal agencies; some by the corporate sector. Where appropriate we identify and highlight their research and findings — especially findings that will find a way into best practice literature that informs safety and sustainability in education communities. Many IEC titles are referenced in ISO, IET, IEEE and NFPA consensus products.
Take, for example, the Association of Medical Imaging and Electrical Equipment Manufacturers (NEMA) — the Administrator of the USNC /IEC Technical Advisory Group of the USNA/IEC — frequently releases material for US stakeholders to review. The USNA.IEC also publishes a quarterly newsletter:
There is a great deal of economic activity in this domain so we maintain our focus on the technical specifics presented in draft material. About 80 percent of the work involved in standards setting is administrative. Our focus has always been on the remaining 20 percent that involves a non-administrative skill set. Because of copyright restrictions on draft material — very common in the standards setting systems in many nations — we are mindful of releasing the full text of draft documents intended for public consultation only.
We do it this way out of necessity. There is no structured workspace provided by USNA/IEC at the moment; only emails with attachments among USNA/IEC members. Instead, we use a combination content management system hosted by the University of Michigan and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. We coordinate our review of the state of energy sector literature here and with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee. All IEC products are on the standing agendas of our Energy, Power and Global colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
University of Michigan
Issue: [15-197]
Contact: Mike Anthony, Paul Green, Jim Harvey, Massimo Mittolo
Colleagues: Mahesh Illindala (Ohio State University), Giuseppe Parisi (Sapienza University of Roma), Loren Clark (University of Alberta). Jim Murphy (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: University of California Berkeley), Brian Marchionini (NEMA), Paul Green (University of Michigan)
Category: Electrical, Telecommunications, Energy Management, #SmartCampus, Informatics, Information & Communications Technology
LEARN MORE:
The August eNewsletter is now available.
This issue discusses current and future practices being employed to ensure the safety of Smart Grids.https://t.co/o6Imn6grg9#IEEESG #CRAS #Safety pic.twitter.com/RBsVvya1bW— IEEE Smart Grid (@ieeesmartgrid) August 18, 2020
The @NEMAupdates Intelligence Portal pulls together targeted content from a wide variety of sources to keep Members apprised of the policy environment. Members can login here for more information: https://t.co/w0ublpgse0 pic.twitter.com/HoXaQsvycf
— NEMA (@NEMAupdates) July 29, 2020
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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