August 2020

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Greenlee’s Handheld Ground-Resistance Tester

Southwire Tool and Equipment’s 40012S Receptacle Tester

Klein Tools’ ET40 AC/DC Voltage Tester

AEMC Instruments’ 565 Clamp-On Leakage Current Meter

Megger’s LT300 High Current Loop Tester

Flir’s CM57 Clamp Meter

Fluke’s 1AC II Noncontact Voltage Tester

Platinum Tools’ MapMaster Mini Cable Tester

U.S. Energy Storage Defies COVID-19 With Big Second Quarter Gains

Rick Laezman

While many industries have suffered during the pandemic, others have persevered. Some have even thrived. The U.S. energy storage industry posted one of its best periods of growth ever in the second quarter of 2020...

Integrated Systems

Aug 15, 2020

Software Valuable for Coordinating Distributed Energy Resources

William Atkinson

A new report by Wood Mackenzie suggests that the exponential growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as wind, solar and battery storage, pose both benefits and challenges for electric utilities, largely due to the...

Your Business

Aug 15, 2020

A Mixed Bag for July Construction Starts

William Atkinson

According to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics, total construction fell 7% from June to July to a seasonally-adjusted rate of $631.6 billion. However, the only real loss in the three segments that Dodge covers was...

Green Building

Aug 15, 2020

Virtual Power Plant Fleet Coming to California

Rick Laezman

August 2020 is a month many Californians will probably prefer to forget. Wildfires, heat waves and power outages highlighted the state’s continuing need to diversify, even after years of pioneering leadership in the field of...

Power Plant Carbon Emissions Image by Foto-Rabe from Pixabay

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Your Business

Aug 15, 2020

New Rules for Fed Work

Deborah L. O'Mara

Contractors providing video surveillance, networking or telecommunications products and services to the federal government will have fewer equipment options as of September 30, when implementation rules are slated to go into...

Your Business

Aug 15, 2020

National Commission Recommends Steps for Grid Resilience and Cybersecurity

William Atkinson

The National Commission on Grid Resilience, co-chaired by General Wesley Clark and former Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), is a bipartisan effort to secure the nation’s grid. The commission released a report, “Grid Resilience...

Green Building

Aug 15, 2020

Study Says U.S. Energy Could Be Almost Carbon-Free by 2035

Rick Laezman

The end game of energy innovation has always been to end fossil fuel use. Questions remain about how long that will take and if the country can make a complete transformation. A new report says that could be sooner rather...

Carbon Emissions Image by Nikola Belopitov from Pixabay

Your Business

Aug 15, 2020

100 GW of New Energy Storage Possible by 2030

William Atkinson

According to the Energy Storage Association (ESA), it is possible to have 100 gigawatts of new energy storage deployed in the United States by the end of the decade. The national trade association whose members include...

QUIZ: Staying Grounded

The National Electrical Code includes requirements to ground electrical systems. It also contains information regarding electrical systems that are prohibited from being grounded and those systems that are permitted to be—but not required to be—grounded. If an electrical system is grounded as a requirement or by choice, all the rules related to grounded systems must be applied.

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QUIZ: Do You Know Your Way Around?

This quiz gives you a chance to see how well you understand the layout and usage of NFPA 72, 2019 edition. Good luck!

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August 2020

Table of Contents

2020 Profile of the Electrical Contractor, Part 2

Productive Prefab

Sustainable Buy-Ins

Featured Products

Greenlee’s Handheld Ground-Resistance Tester

Southwire Tool and Equipment’s 40012S Receptacle Tester

Klein Tools’ ET40 AC/DC Voltage Tester

AEMC Instruments’ 565 Clamp-On Leakage Current Meter

Megger’s LT300 High Current Loop Tester

Flir’s CM57 Clamp Meter

Fluke’s 1AC II Noncontact Voltage Tester

Platinum Tools’ MapMaster Mini Cable Tester

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U.S. Energy Storage Defies COVID-19 With Big Second Quarter Gains

Software Valuable for Coordinating Distributed Energy Resources

A Mixed Bag for July Construction Starts

Virtual Power Plant Fleet Coming to California

New Rules for Fed Work

National Commission Recommends Steps for Grid Resilience and Cybersecurity

Study Says U.S. Energy Could Be Almost Carbon-Free by 2035

100 GW of New Energy Storage Possible by 2030

August 2020

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