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FERC Meeting Synopsis
All day
2026.01.27
https://standardsmichigan.com/reaction-ferc-meetings/

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. While FERC operates independently, it reports to Congress and is administratively housed within the Department of Energy (DOE). However, the DOE does not oversee FERC’s regulatory decisions, as FERC operates autonomously under its own authority.
2028 NESC Defintions
11:00 -12:00
2026.01.27
The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), published by the IEEE as ANSI C2, is the current edition as of January 2026: the 2023 Edition (published in 2022, effective February 1, 2023). The next edition is scheduled for 2028.Table of Contents for the 2023 EditionGeneral Sections
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Definitions of Special Terms
Section 3: References
Section 9: Grounding Methods for Electric Supply and Communications Facilities
Part 1: Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Electric Supply Stations and Equipment
Section 10: Purpose and Scope
Section 11: Protective Arrangements in Electric Supply Stations
Section 12: Installation and Maintenance of Equipment
Section 13: Rotating Equipment
Section 14: Storage Batteries
Section 15: Transformers and Regulators
Section 16: Conductors
Section 17: Circuit Breakers, Reclosers, Switches, and Fuses
Section 18: Switchgear and Metal-Enclosed Bus
Section 19: Photovoltaic Generating Stations
Part 2: Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines
Section 20: Purpose, Scope, and Application of Rules
Section 21: General Requirements
Section 22: Relations Between Various Classes of Lines and Equipment
Section 23: Clearances
Section 24: Grades of Construction
Section 25: Loadings for Grades B and C
Section 26: Strength Requirements
Section 27: Line Insulation
(Additional sections on overhead rules, including guys, supports, etc.)
Part 3: Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines
Sections covering purpose, scope, underground construction, cables, equipment, and installation requirements.
Part 4: Work Rules (Rules for the Operation of Electric Supply and Communications Lines and Equipment)
Sections 40–44: Covering employer and employee rules, including approach distances, fall protection, and arc flash requirements.
Appendices and Annexes
Appendix A: Uniform system of clearances
Appendix B: Uniform clearance calculations
Appendix C: Example applications for loadings
Appendix D: Practical approaches to reducing overvoltages
Appendix E: Bibliography
Annex 1: Metric tables and figures
Annex 2: Letter symbols for units
Index
The NESC also includes numerous figures, tables (e.g., clearance tables like 232-1, 235 series, loading tables 250–253, strength tables), and supporting rules within each section.For the full document, including exact rule numbering and details, refer to the official IEEE publication (available via IEEE Xplore or purchase). The structure has remained consistent across recent editions, with updates primarily in content (e.g., new rules for energy storage, distributed generation, and wireless attachments in 2023).

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The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically. Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles. In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.

Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.

Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.

The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.

Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society. (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)