Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has scheduled public meetings in Ignacio and Farmington next month to explain the rationale for installing a 230-kilovolt transmission line between the two towns.
The line, for which a corridor has not yet been chosen, is needed to support growth in the region as well as the work of the gas and oil industry, Tri-State public affairs manager Brad Jones said during an interview last week at The Durango Herald. Tri-State’s existing generating capacity will supply the power.
A 115-kilovolt Tri-State line between Durango and Bayfield that …

CALGARY – Calgary’s mayor and aldermen say they don’t see the need for costly Edmonton-to-Calgary electricity transmission lines that consumers will have to help pay for, unofficially joining the anti-line campaign of city-owned power firm Enmax.
Those critics included the alderman bidding to join some of the line’s biggest promoters: Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who’s running for the Stelmach Tories in next week’s Calgary-Glenmore byelection.
“I haven’t bought into the ‘blackout, brownout’ concern to raise fear among people,” she said, referring to Energy Minister Mel Knight’s warnings that without the major transmission network …

Calif. debates high standard for renewable energy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday began approving legislation that would establish the nation’s most ambitious renewable-energy standards, even as some warned that the rules would increase energy costs and hurt the state’s economy.
The Senate and Assembly began voting on two companion bills that would require utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020. One bill cleared an initial hurdle in the Senate on a simple majority vote with just a few hours remaining in this year’s regular …

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IBM Global Financing to Speed up Broadband Access to Rural America With New
Financing That Benefits IBEC and DS2.
ARMONK, N.Y., and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM
Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it has recently reached a new financing arrangement that
would help accelerate customer access to high speed Internet in rural areas.
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The funding agreement would benefit Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology
provider International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc. (IBEC) and one
of its leading integrated chip (IC) suppliers, DS2.  IBEC has developed
technology …

SEVENTY per cent of the 173 deaths due to the Black Saturday bushfires were caused by the failure of electricity assets, the Bushfires Royal Commission has been told.
Tim Tobin, SC, a lawyer representing 1100 people and businesses involved in class actions against power companies, aired the deaths figure while cross-examining a senior officer from the CFA, Steve Warrington.
Mr Tobin asked Mr Warrington what the CFA had done before February 7 to guard against power asset failures, saying that electricity assets had caused major fatal fires at other times in Victoria, …

NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — PennWell’s Electronics Media Group is
announcing the launch of a new portal website, www.ElectroIQ.com. The new
site, focused on electronics and electronics manufacturing, provides a gateway
to the content of five different PennWell brands: Solid State Technology,
Photovoltaics World, Advanced Packaging, Small Times and SMT. Each brand
powers one of the five sections of the new site: semiconductors,
photovoltaics, packaging, nanotech/MEMS, and surface mount technology,
respectively.
Users can easily navigate through these branded sections and associated topic
centers to find a wide variety of content, including technical articles,
industry news, product updates, videos, white …

Gigabyte has launched eleven new motherboards based on Intel P55 Express chipset. Gigabyte’s new P55 Chipset motherboards have LGA Socket 1156 to support latest Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Build on the much touted Ultra Durable 3 design that adds 2oz copper Printer Circuit Board, Gigabyte boasts of industry’s first 24-phase Voltage Regulator Module design.
Gigabyte P55 chipset motherboards are ready to be used with the freshly announced Intel Core i5 750 and Core i7 860 as well as 870 processors. These new Lynnfield CPUs have memory controllers integrated …

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LITTAU, Switzerland–(Business Wire)–
Dow Electronic Materials (NYSE:DOW) introduces Silveron MF 100 autocatalytic
silver and Aurolectroless SMT immersion gold for ASIG (autocatalytic silver
immersion gold) final finish process for the PCB (printed circuit board)
industry. The company has signed an agreement with Polymer Kompositer AB to
become the global distributor for the ASIG final finish process, excluding UK
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