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Climate Change Impacting Bird Migration Patterns

Climate change is increasingly influencing bird migration patterns, affecting the timing, routes, and destinations of many species. These alterations have significant implications for ecosystems, conservation efforts, and our understanding of avian behavior.​

Shifts in Migration Timing

Rising global temperatures have led to earlier springs and altered food availability, prompting birds to adjust their migration schedules. Some species are arriving at breeding grounds earlier, while others are departing later for their wintering habitats. This shift can...

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Why calibrate test equipment

You’re serious about your electrical test instruments. You buy top brands, and you expect them to be accurate. You know some people send their digital instruments to a metrology lab for calibration, and you wonder why. After all, these are all electronic — there’s no meter...

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Texas PUC Shelves $1B Grid Credit Mechanism

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has unanimously decided to shelve the proposed $1 billion Performance Credit Mechanism (PCM) for power generators, concluding that it would not deliver the anticipated grid reliability benefits. The PCM was conceived as a means to incentivize power...

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Clean Energy Stakeholders Push to Preserve IRA Tax Credits

As the U.S. energy landscape shifts towards cleaner, renewable sources, stakeholders in the solar, storage, and broader clean energy sectors are intensifying their lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., aiming to secure the future of critical tax incentives introduced under the Inflation Reduction...

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Canada's Carbon Pricing: A Political Battleground

In recent years, Canada’s carbon pricing policy has been one of the most contentious issues in the country’s political landscape. Introduced by the federal government as a central pillar in its strategy to combat climate change, the carbon pricing scheme aims to reduce greenhouse gas...

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Application of Symmetric Conditions in the Simulation of High Voltage Power Transmission Models

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The height of the power transmitting towers is usually in the range of 10m to 40m and the separation between two consecutive towers is about 200m to 400m. In addition, the area of the ground that needs to be considered in the simulation is large. Therefore, Finite Element Method (FEM) is not suitable for simulation of this application. Whereas Boundary Element Method (BEM) is best suited for these open region problems. This paper refers to the 3D Electric Field Solver COULOMB™ for the simulation method and presented results. The BEM method is based on the discretization of Maxwell’s equations in integral form. BEM’s distinctive strength lies in its ability to achieve a high degree of precision both locally and across the entirety of the problem domain. Though the BEM method is suitable for open region problems, it requires a computing machine with large RAM and CPU power to obtain a...

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ASHER Cable Scrapper from TSE

The TSE Cable Scrapper is Al Asher and Sons’ latest product innovation for 2015. Formerly known as OK Champion, the industry has long recognized the Cable Scrapper as the go-to product for salvaging underground cable up to four-inch diameter. The machine will pull, cut, and load cable all day...

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Cutting Through the Noise

In a conference room in early 2017, a group of Transmission operators, supervisors, and executives at Ameren sat down in an effort to craft a strategic analytics roadmap that would tackle the new challenges associated with transmission operations. One of the first questions the group posed to...