The 2013 Ontario Electric Utility Hockey Tournament taking place at the Invista Centre in Kingston, April 12-14. Consisting of 62 teams from electric utility companies across the province, the tournament is expected to draw about 1000 ...
You've neglected it for ages, but now's the time to get rid of the household hazardous waste—oil-based paints, pesticides, automotive fluids, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, and more—that's lurking somewhere in your home. ...
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In April, AATCC will honor Nicole Nichols-Wilson, president and founder of Pure Filter Solutions (PFS), as the 2012 recipient of the Association’s Young Entrepreneur Award. Nichols is being recognized for designing, manufacturing, and ...
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Dramatically falling costs and improvements in efficiency are driving increased sales of light emitting diode (LED) lamps for street lighting. Costs have fallen as much as 50% over the past two years and are expected to continue falling. By ...
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The chance of infection by malware from counterfeit software is three in 10 for businesses, and one in three for consumers, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC. Police prevented from ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Facilities Managers or supervisors looking for incentives to kick off energy efficient lighting projects in 2013 will have not one but five incentive to consider: 1. Utility Rebates: most local utility companies offer energy efficient ...
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RS Technologies Inc., a company that designs, engineers and manufactures composite utility poles, announced changes to its arrangement with HD Supply Power Solutions Ltd. (formerly HD Supply Utilities Ltd.), including the termination of the ...
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MARLTON, NJ, January 13, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- eMaint Enterprises, leading provider of CMMS solutions, recently launched a Spanish language version of its corporate website in response to the growing CMMS maintenance market in Latin ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at the University of South Carolina have discovered that some types of electricity meter are broadcasting unencrypted information that, with the right software, would enable eavesdroppers to determine whether ...
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Computerworld - Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the security of electric utility smart meters being installed in ...
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Utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT this year, of which over 62% will be invested in IT services. IDC Energy Insights expects IT spending by utility companies in the region to exceed $13bn in 2016, after average ...
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The following considerations are drawn from successful energy efficient lighting projects using LED T8 lamps, and they would help facility managers and lighting contractors achieve a better ROI (return on investment) for their own ...
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Vemotion Interactive, specialists in live video transmission over low bandwidth connections, will be represented at the IFSEC & OSH Arabia International Conference and Exhibition for Industrial Security 2012. Vemotion will be represented by ...
Our smart energy roundtable participants discuss evolutions that include the move to the cloud,communications standards,security(always a hot topic)and new technologies to watch. According to IMS Research,over 25 million smart ...
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