Sandia is at the forefront of the big wave of attention currently being paid to “critical infrastructure surety” as it impacts national security. (Surety means “assurance”, and encompasses safety, integrity, authenticity, security, reliability, and technology.)
The Clinton Administration today announced a proposal to bring competition and consumer choice to the electricity industry, saving consumers roughly $20 billion a year and improving the environment by reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Sandia has an extensive program to study electric cables, primarily in the context of nuclear power plant safety. Cables are everywhere in power plants, transmitting power and information, and can be the origin of common mode failures, e.g. when many cables fail simultaneously during an accident.
Here’s the text of a brochure for an upcoming conference on Distributed Generation. It’s put on by a company that does conferences, and they seem to have done a good job assembling the players in DG, and put together an interesting agenda.
As part of its response to this legislation, the Department of Energy issued a procurement through its State Energy Program office for up to $1.2 million in cost-shared projects, with the Department’s share being 25% of the cost, awarded in the form of a grant.
In Order Nos. 888 and 889 and their progeny (1) , the Commission established the fundamental principles of non- discriminatory open access transmission services. Nevertheless, many issues remain to be addressed if the Nation is to fully realize the benefits of open access and more competitive electric markets.
A reminder that this weekly service is available from DOE. Anyone can request to be added to the email distribution list. (Only a small portion of the current list is shown in the note below.) Notice the coming availability on DOE’s website.
The ESA has listened to its membership and is being responsive to what the membership says it wants from the ESA. In our survey of ESA members over the last few months, the number one thing you want from the ESA is promotion and a forum so that potential customers are aware of the value and opportunities for including energy storage.
