“City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard” (1883) | George Cooke
To require the Secretary of Energy to establish or designate the Distributed Energy Opportunity Board to carry out a program to facilitate a voluntary streamlined process for local permitting of distributed renewable energy, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging systems, and for other purposes.
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Photo by Architect of the Capitol
Left: The teacher and children in a “little red schoolhouse” represent an important part of American education in the 1800s. Right: Students attend a land grant college, symbolic of the national commitment to higher learning.
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Expressing support for the designation of September 2019 as Campus Fire Safety Month.
Whereas student-related housing fires in Texas, Oregon, Illinois, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and other schools across the country have tragically cut short the lives of some of the youth of the Nation;
Whereas, since January 2000, at least 175 people, including students, parents, and children have died in college-related fires;
Whereas approximately 87 percent of these deaths have occurred in off-campus occupancies;
Whereas a majority of the students across the Nation live in off-campus occupancies;
Whereas a number of fatal fires have occurred in buildings where the fire safety systems have been compromised or disabled by the occupants;
Whereas it is recognized that automatic fire alarm systems and smoke alarms provide the necessary early warning to occupants and the fire department of a fire so that appropriate action can be taken;
Whereas it is recognized that automatic fire sprinkler systems are a highly effective method of controlling or extinguishing a fire in its early stages, protecting the lives of the building’s occupants;
Whereas many students are living in off-campus occupancies, Greek housing, and residence halls that are not adequately protected with automatic fire sprinkler systems and automatic fire alarm systems or adequate smoke alarms;
Whereas it is recognized that fire safety education is an effective method of reducing the occurrence of fires and reducing the resulting loss of life and property damage;
Whereas students are not routinely receiving effective fire safety education throughout their entire college career;
Whereas it is vital to educate the future generation of the Nation about the importance of fire safety behavior so that these behaviors can help to ensure their safety during their college years and beyond; and
Whereas by developing a generation of fire-safe adults, future loss of life from fires can be significantly reduced: Now, therefore, be it
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“L’Empire des Lumieres” (1949) / Rene Magritte
The CSA Group has launched a new revision cycle for its standard C22.2 No. 184.2 Solid-state controls for lighting systems (SSCLS). From the project prospectus:
This Standard applies to permanently connected, single or multi-branch circuit, multi-circuit outputs, solid-state lighting controls rated at 600 V and less, 50 or 60 Hz, single- or three-phase, with or without overcurrent protection on the load side, with or without integral load switching devices, designed to be used as a complete solid state lighting control system for the purpose of controlling a single or multiple type of lighting loads, such as:
(a) incandescent lamps;
(b) magnetic ballast;
(c) fluorescent, compact fluorescent, and electric discharge lamps;
(d) HID (pilot duty) and electronic ballasts;
(e) LED and OLED lights and drivers; and
(f) 0-10 VDC analog dimming, and intended for installation in accordance with the Rules of CSA C22.1, Canadian Electrical Code, Part I and the National Electrical Code, NEC.
This Standard also applies to SSCLS products mounted in a portable manner (i.e., mounted on wheels). (NOTE: “Mounted on wheels “can include wheeled mounted equipment that can be moved by one person, up to large truck- or trailer-mounted assemblies. Similarly, “mounted on skids” can include equipment that is small enough and light enough to be moved by one person, up to large or heavy units that can only be skidded with larger towing vehicles or lifted and moved with hoists or cranes.) This Standard applies to ac-rated controls for which the load rating does not exceed 40 A per circuit at a maximum 600 V. These SSCLS products may include receptacles of configuration 5-15R, 5-20R, and L5-20R, used as lighting load connection points, with access limited to qualified personnel only. These SSCLS products may include convenience receptacles, mechanical switches, dimming circuits, and other wiring devices on separate circuits. These SSCLS products may include NC or NO contacts for the purpose of controlling other general use loads rated inductive, resistive and 2HP or less. These SSCLS products may include a Class 2 power supply for the purpose of feeding power to analog or digital inputs, such as sensors.
Comments are due September 17th
We encourage our colleagues to communicate directly with the CSA Group to participate in its standards development processes; its landing page linked below:
CSA Group identifies David Zimmerman, (216) 524-4990, david.zimmerman@csagroup.org 8501 E. Pleasant Valley Road, Cleveland, OH 44131 as its contact person for this particular standardization project.
For technology like this we collaborate closely with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets 4 times per month in European and American time zones. We also host a monthly Electrical Power standards teleconference. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Simon Fraser University / Vancouver
Issue: [19-145]
Category: Electrical, Energy, Facility Asset Management, International, #SmartCampus
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Lorne Clark, Nehad El Sherif, Jim Harvey, Abra O’Leary
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“Night View of Cherry Blossoms in Shin Yoshiwara” c. 1889 / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Artist: Inoue Yasuji / Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Juda
IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 18 is charged with reconciling electrotechnology standards action between two dominant electrical safety cultures in the United States:
The consensus documents produced by these two electrical safety cultures are usually incorporated by reference into local and state public safety laws. For the most part, all safety and sustainability requirements for user interests, and what practices will set the standard of care for the US education industry and others, will appear on the agenda of IEEE SCC-18
The years 2018 and 2019 are active years for NFPA-70 and the IEEE technical committees. The IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society, which has a near 100 year tenure in electrical power systems safety and sustainability for all US industries, are dealing with a coincident revision cycle of the 2020 National Electrical Code and the ANSI/IEEE C2 National Electrical Safety Code. Technical and policy experts are engaged in lively leading practice discovery discussion about distributed resources, power-over-ethernet circuits, electric and autonomous vehicles and Internet-of-Things; among others. The rollout of the emergent #SmartCampus is necessarily an electrotechnical transformation so it is necessary to keep pace with, and to be effective advocates in global safety and sustainability documents produced by the International Electrotechnical Commission.
An illustration from Jules Verne’s short story “La Journée d’un Journaliste Américain en 2889” (In the Year 2889) by George Roux / c. 1910
Standards Michigan has its “door” open every day at 11 AM Eastern time for 1-1 consultation on the entire suite of electrotechnical standards that affect the education facilities industry but twice monthly, concentrates on electrical power and information and communication technology movements. Movements that happen on a near-hourly basis; hence our identification of the stream standardization and conformity activity. See our CALENDAR for the next online meetings; open to everyone. Please note that these teleconferences are coordinated with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee; landing page linked below:
http://sites.ieee.org/icps-ehe/
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Issue: [Various]
Category: Electrical, Telecommunication, #SmartCampus, Information & Communications Technology
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Robert G. Arno, Christel Hunter, Mario Spina, Jim Harvey, Mike Hiler, David Law
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