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Mar 2020

X Marks the Spot

Jeff Griffin
Know the tools for finding underground utilities Much of the nation’s underground contains a maze of pipes, cables and cables inside buried conduits. This network is at risk anytime new utilities are buried or when new...
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Mar 2020

Is Blue Light Hazardous?

Craig DiLouie
Several times per year, an article—typically based on a research study—is published warning consumers about the potential health risks of exposure to blue light produced by LED lighting. The International Commission on...
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Mar 2020

Many Heads Are Better Than One

Claire Swedberg
Battaglia Electric delivers results for a Delaware hospital Bayhealth Hospital’s Sussex Campus opened its doors to patients in 2019 as the first newly constructed Delaware hospital in decades. The building rose over the...
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Mar 2020

AC Versus DC in PQ

Richard P. Bingham
in the 1880s, Tesla (not the car) and Edison (not the city) debated which method of electric current distribution should be used to deliver electricity from generators to homes and businesses. It was a less-than-friendly...
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Mar 2020

The Race to 5G

Claire Swedberg
The global race is on to build out necessary infrastructure to meet the promises of 5G. First, 5G deployment requires upgrading existing cell towers. Ultimately, infrastructure providers will have to extend a network of small...
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Mar 2020

An Imminent Defeat

Chuck Ross
Last year saw U.S. coal-fired generating capacity drop by an estimated 13.7 gigawatts (GW), and the first five days of 2020 suggested the fuel’s fortunes will only continue to shrink. By Jan. 5, 2020, two of the four...
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Mar 2020

Thoughts of Future and Past

Susan Bloom
For many of us, the year 2020 seemed so far away, but now it’s here and many of the technologies, products and processes that seemed implausible years ago have become standard ways of working. Electrical contractors share...
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Mar 2020

It Speaks for Itself

Gerard W. Ittig
For as long as people have been making contracts, they have been making imperfect ones. When a court is asked to make sense of faulty agreements—before a judge throws up his hands and says, “I can’t make any sense of this”...
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Mar 2020

Biding One’s Utility Time

Chuck Ross
For at least a couple decades, electrical contractors have been helping customers find new ways to reduce electricity use. That’s because, in most areas of the country, rates have been based on total electricity consumption...
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