William Atkinson

According to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Arlington, Va., construction employment increased by 27,300 jobs in November. However, the majority of the gains are in the residential...

With the winter holiday season approaching, this might be a good time to get word out to your customers about the importance of electrical safety, especially as it applies to holiday lighting—indoor and outdoor. In Part 1, we...

With the holiday season approaching, this might be a good time to get word out to your customers about the importance of electrical safety, especially as it applies to indoor and outdoor holiday lighting. Here, we look at...

According to the latest Housing Opportunity Index, produced jointly by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., and Wells Fargo, San Francisco, record-low mortgage rates were not enough to offset...

In its “2020-2021 Winter Reliability Assessment,” the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Atlanta, predicts that there will be sufficient resource capacity in place across North America to meet winter...

According to a new survey from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., confidence in the market for new multifamily housing increased in the third quarter of 2020. The Multifamily Market Survey...

Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), San Francisco, issued a proposal laying the foundation for the state’s effort to better integrate electric vehicles (EVs) as a grid resource. The proposal,...

According to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colo., the first three months of 2020 saw public electric vehicle (EV) supply equipment grow 7.6%. The report, “Electric Vehicle Charging...

Hartmann Electric Co. Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., has approximately 100 employees. About a dozen of these employees are on the company’s low-voltage side, called Hartmann Technology Group. “We started Hartmann Technology...

According to a new report by Steve Cicala, an assistant professor and Neubauer faculty fellow at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., while utilities have multiple challenges and unexpected additional expenses as a result of the...

Each year since 2000, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colo., has compiled and reported data on electric utilities that offer “green pricing” programs to their customers. These programs allow homes and...

According to a new report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., sales of newly-built single-family homes fell 3.5% in September to 959,000, based on data from the U.S. Department of Housing...