The deadline for votes was April 15,2002. Thank you for voting for the 2002 Product of the Year. The winner of the $100 award and the 2002 Product of...More
Electrical contractors and other end users on the panel that evaluated this year’s entrants in the CEE News/EC&M Product-of-the-Year competition had a...More
WHAT'S WRONG HERE? Give the specific 2002 NEC references related to any violations you find. Write Joe a Violation Notice rather than sending in a copy...More
Overcoming the logistical challenges that come with being one of the first shows in a new hall at the mammoth Las Vegas Convention Center isn’t easy,...More
The Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) is to build for the very first time a close-to-series fuel-cell power plant in Europe. Under contract to Stadtwerke...More
One of the most mind-blowing memories of the 9-11 tragedies is the selfless sense of duty of the rescue workers who responded to the World Trade Center...More
Electrical contractors and other end users on the panel that evaluated this year’s entrants in the CEE News/EC&M Product-of-the-Year competition had a...More
The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (PTD) is electrifying a hundred villages in Gabon in a 20 million euro project ordered by the state...More
The crippling winter ice storm left many Missourians without power and caused significant damage to trees and power lines. To help families and businesses...More
The crippling winter ice storm left many Missourians and Kansans without power and caused significant damage to trees and power lines. To help families...More
Kansas City Power and Light (KCP&L) crews have been working around the clock to restore power to Kansas City residents. View a map of the crew assignments...More
The phone has been ringing off the hook at Tann Electric since a winter ice storm roared through Kansas City last week. Frozen tree limbs crashed on power...More
Kansas City has had two crippling snow storms in five years, yet few homeowners have backup generators. “We’ve had enough long-term power outages here...More
McBride Electric trucks patrolled debris-filled Kansas City-area streets like Red-Cross vehicles last Friday. All through an eerie, windless Wednesday...More
The Kansas City ice storm left many homeowners without heat or electricity. Rather than turning to utility companies, however, Kansas City homeowners...More
Frozen tree limbs crashed on power lines and ripped the meter housings apart from homes, leaving 420,000 homes without power in Kansas City. John Tann,...More
Like most editors, CEE News editors see writers assault and sometimes pepper the English language every which way they possibly can. I guess we should...More
Across the river from downtown Kansas City, two former satellite dealers launched a home automation company with the motto, If you are building a new...More
Last month, we began this series talking about closed circuit TV monitoring. In this month's article, we will begin covering the components of video systems....More
The dot-com boom and bust of 2000 has left many electrical professionals wary of the Internet and skeptical of the possibilities of e-commerce. A flood...More
When Overton Electric, Memphis, Tenn., won the $6.7 million electrical contract for Peabody Place in early 2000, they knew they had to tread lightly....More
Louis Gale, P.E. from Raleigh, N.C., sent me these photos of a regular extension ladder that was being used as a cable tray at a tower used for cellular...More
Abstract: In this webinar, Mike will not only explain the current NEC requirements for GFCIs and AFCIs, but he'll explain how they operate, what causes their premature failure, and when they won't provide the safety protection you might have thought they would.
Abstract: This webinar will teach attendees the difference between risk and hazard, and how the choice of system grounding has a direct impact on reliability and safety.
Arlington’s new REVERSIBLE entrance plate not only protects cable but delivers good looks and installation versatility. Use it facing in or out. Non-rusting paintable plastic....More
