The news is filled with nature’s growing fury. In Louisiana and Texas, Hurricane Laura has left a wake of destruction and hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses without power. Entergy, the regional utility, is...

Originally postponed from August, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s seventh annual Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction event took place Sept. 14-18. The fall prevention stand-down is a national...

According to a recent report by the Department of Energy’s U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “U.S. Shipments of Solar Photovoltaic Modules Increase as Prices Continue to Fall,” sales of solar panels continue to...

Just because workers have been trained on safety practices, doesn’t mean they know how to avoid injury or even death from electrical shock. That is what Littelfuse found when the Chicago-based circuit protection manufacturer...

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...

I often get questions regarding detector placement in difficult areas, and most of the time the answer lies in the Annex A to NFPA 72 of the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code. I will cover the most common questions here...

Jim Dollard has an extensive background in codes and standards. Send questions about the National Electrical Code (NEC) to Jim at codefaqs@gmail.com. Answers are based on the 2020 NEC. Service conductors Does the NEC permit...

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...

This year’s NECA convention is going to be a little different than usual. Come October, you can sit in your home office or on your couch, a snack or cup of coffee in hand, open your computer screen and navigate to NECA 2020...

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...