Sep. 6–A coalition of the state’s municipally owned utilities is working on a plan that could bring savings to customers through the purchase of a share of the gigantic transmission lines that cross through Connecticut.
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative is working with its six member utilities — including Norwich Public Utilities, Groton Utilities, Jewett City Public Utilities and Bozrah Light and Power, owned by Groton Utilities — to create a new entity called the Connecticut Transmission Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative.
So far, five entities have approved forming the new company, …

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) – The board of the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has approved investing $142 million to improve and expand electrical transmission lines.
The budget includes $2.6 million for development of new technologies, as Tri-State works to improve management of greenhouse-gas emissions.
The overall investment marks the first phase of a 10-year, $1.9 billion capital improvement plan for the association, which serves 44 cooperatives and public power districts in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.
Tri-State has already launched several transmission projects, including a venture with Xcel Energy to construct power lines …

PCB Solutions, Inc, an Electronic Services Manufacturer in Layton, Utah, has recently acquired Process Engineer and Programmer Travis Lake of Magna, Utah. Lake brings almost 20 years of Electronic Manufacturing experience to the young and vibrant company.
Despite the worldwide economic slowdown, PCB Solutions has continued to thrive by focusing on long-standing Contract Electronic Manufacturing customer relations with a diverse range of customers from throughout the electronic industry. Lake hopes to continue this effort with his unique skill-set and his attention and concern for manufacturability and proficiency.
When asked about his recent …

The 500,000-volt Heartland Transmission Project will not be used to export power from Alberta, government and energy officials said on Thursday.
Sturgeon County Mayor Don Rigney told 25 municipalities at the Capital Region Board meeting the lines were part of a grid plan that would be used to export Alberta power to the United States.
He cited Treasury Board president Lloyd Snelgrove as the source of his information, and questioned whether Albertans should have to pay for power lines that will only benefit power companies and Americans.
Rigney also questioned whether the transmission …

Many Marylanders, Virginians, and West Virginians are finding themselves in a real-life David and Goliath battle with American Electric Power (AEP) and Allegheny Energy over the proposed PATH power line. This is not your average power line. The power companies want to construct PATH (Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline) with 765 kv lines, the largest there is, and with massive towers as high as 200 feet, the size of a twenty-story building. They’ve applied for a construction-right-of-way of 2200ft, which means that though the line has been drawn in a specific …

KYOTO, Japan, Sept. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nidec Corporation (NYSE:NJ) (the
“Company”) today announced that it has resolved at a meeting of its Board of
Directors held on September 5, 2009 to establish a wholly owned holding company,
named Nidec Techno Motor Holdings Corporation (“NTMC”).
1. Objectives of Establishing NTMC
NTMC will coordinate and oversee the Company’s mid- and small-sized electric
motor businesses with a primary focus on synergetic enhancement in sales and
procurement activities. In line with this objective, two of the Company’s
existing wholly-owned subsidiaries, Nidec Shibaura Corporation and Nidec Power
Motor Corporation, will start operating …

ATLANTA – A plan to ease traffic in metro Atlanta is drawing fire. John Oxendine is proposing a second parallel connector.
Oxendine is the state fire insurance commissioner and he’s running for governor.
Oxendine said a parallel connector would make for an easier commute for people who live along 400 and Interstate 85.
But some in-town communities are concerned about a highway being built through their neighborhoods.
Bumper to bumper on the downtown connector — it’s a daily headache. Anyone in Atlanta can tell you about.
“The connector is maxing out. We’ve got to address …

CALGARY — The gloves are off and none too soon.
The boss of Enmax, the power company owned by this city’s taxpayers, warns us of how the provincial government is playing loose with the fear-mongering and that old-fashioned idea we call democracy.
Gary Holden gives us this head’s up as Premier Ed’s folks ram through two huge power lines Enmax says we don’t need. Work on those lines is starting before there’s any debate in the legislature.
It is a plan, expected to add up to $20 billion, forcing each of us to …

Technology changes, but human nature doesn’t. Environmentally friendly energy projects are running into the same cries of “not in my backyard” that stymied a previous generation of alternative-power efforts.
Even as Americans tell pollsters they are eager for alternatives to fossil fuel, some are fighting proposals for solar and wind projects and for the thousands of miles of transmission lines that would be needed to carry the cleaner energy to market. The protests echo grass-roots opposition that has blocked nuclear plants and energy-producing trash incinerators for decades.
The new backlash is fueled …

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has amped up his response to Saw Creek’s power line opponents.
“I’d like to have them know I am concerned and am exploring alternatives,” Specter said in an interview prompted by a phone call to the Pocono Record from his office last week.
“I’ve been thinking about the situation in Saw Creek and have some thoughts. I’d like to take up with PJM the question as to an updated evaluation of the need for this line,” Specter said.
PJM, the agency that manages the electricity grid in the northeastern …