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This week, the DOE proposed new energy efficiency standards for distribution transformers to improve grid resiliency, lower bills and reduce CO2 emissions. These transformers lower the voltage of electrical power before distribution to the customer. Nearly all the transformers produced on the new standard would feature amorphous steel cores, which are more energy efficient but also in..
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The post Understanding Energy Crises of the 1970s and Avoiding Problems Today appeared first on POWER Magazine.
If you were alive and living in the U.S. during the 1970s, you probably remember waiting in long lines to fill your car with fuel. Yet, gasoline wasn’t the only item in short supply during the “Me Decade”—natural gas was seemingly running out and electricity demand was growing so much that new power plants were going up all over the country.
“I would argue, and I think a lot of historians would agree with me, that the 1970s was the most important decade in U.S. energy history, and I say that because of the gasoline interruptions. We had three big crises in the Middle East that reduced our supplies of oil, and that got so bad that at one point, in some states, less than 50% of the stations had any gasoline to sell at all,” Jay Hakes, author of the forthcoming book Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s, said as a guest on The POWER Podcast.…
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As long as products have had ethernet ports, people have been asking for remote access to them. They believed they could just plug the devices into the internet, and it would all work. At first, there wasn’t necessarily a clear path to making this dream a reality without assistance from the user’s IT department. IT would need to set up networks and give access through their firewalls, granting the proper access to those who needed it. This raised all types of security and maintenance concerns and the IT departments simply wouldn’t allow these holes in their firewalls.
As more software tools became available and internet speeds increased, capable users found ways to give themselves access to their assets. But there was still a catch—one needed a dedicated computer for the system.
With today’s products, an operator has numerous options for products that he or she can install into a system that creates a remote access portal without needing to use a dedicated computer.…