PQDIF is a binary file format specified in IEEE Std 1159.3-2003 that is used to exchange voltage, current, power, and energy measurements between software applications. PQDIF is an acronym for Power Quality Data Interchange Format.

Wayne County Airport Authority
The Wayne County Airport Authority was established under Senate Bill 690, which was signed into law on March 26, 2002, and became effective April 24, 2002. The Authority is responsible for the management and operation of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Willow Run Airport - including the power to plan, promote, extend, maintain, acquire, purchase, construct, improve, repair, enlarge, and operate both Airports.
The Authority is managed by an independent, seven-member Board of Directors. Four members are appointed by the Wayne County Executive; two members are appointed by the Governor; and one member is appointed by the Wayne County Commission. Terms of the appointments range from two to eight years.

outages by county, niagara mohawk

We are among the thousands without power in the northeast. Day four actually, and we've decided to look into generators so that next year's New Year's doesn't involve fears of frozen pipes bursting and hypothermic babies and cats. At the very least we just need enough juice to run the furnace blower, but if we're going to lay down the cash I'd like to know what it would take to get a little more power ... like enough to run a fridge, router, laptop and lightbulb. I know nothing about this sort of thing, but figure there are more than a few experts out there so I call out to the wisdom of the mob. What am I looking for? How difficult is the wiring? What will it cost me? On the extreme edge, what would it take to get off the grid entirely? (And on a side note, thanks to DTE Energy for telling us we had power when we didn't, for losing the ticket for our neighborhood, for telling us it would be back every single day when it wasn't,

As thousands struggled to cope with freezing temperatures during widespread power outages this week, emergency management personnel and equipment — including generators — remained idle in Wayne County as vacationing officials passed the buck on responding to the weather emergency.

“I’m sure there are plans [for dealing with winter power outages],” said the lone employee in the Wayne County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management on Monday, “but I haven’t been here that long, and I really do not know what they are.”

“We now have 70 compliant designs from 15 to 20 manufacturers,” said the adviser, Chris Calwell, vice president and director for policy and research at Ecos Consulting. The new designs are just becoming available in commercial products, he said.

Modern PC designs shift the control of voltage to the motherboards, making the multiple voltage requirements of industry standard power supplies unnecessary, wrote Urs Hölzle and William Weihl, the authors of the Google paper, “High-Efficiency Power Supplies for Home Computers and Servers.”

Google executives said Monday that they were not familiar with the existing effort. They said the project was complementary with their plan and that they were trying to start an industry discussion of the issue.

power outages in new brunswick; no map, just data, though it's mappable data. prep for hurricane kyle

More than 828,000 Entergy customers were without power following Gustav, placing it among the most-damaging weather events as measured by power outages in the utility’s 95-year history, second only to Katrina, which left 1.1 million Entergy customers in the dark.

As the day turned into night, an eerie scene emerged. The stillness of the night was incredible. It was dark, quiet, and serene. It really did remind me of alien invasion scenes. Or maybe after a tremendous catastrophe. As I walked around the neighborhood, an even more stark scene came to forefront. People were outside again. They were hanging out with neighbors. They were grilling out together. They were sharing beer, wine, food, and fires. I discovered that there were a lot more teenagers in my neighborhood than I could have imagined.

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Perhaps not since there was no power have there been so many without power in Baton Rouge. The city has not been this dark since Curley Hallman was coaching the Tigers. You haven’t seen dark until you’ve seen power-out dark. It’s Legend of Boggy Creek dark. You know it’s dark when you miss a major intersection not because you thought it was another intersection, but because you didn’t see it. Government Street and Jefferson Highway is a pretty big intersection to be invisible. A dark neighborhood can be scary. The consistent presence of Baton Rouge Police and other authorities comforts. So does the constant roar of nearby generators for those without one.

Mostly complete Google map with links to the outage reporting maps for utility companies nationwide; starting first with local information plus electric companies in harm's way for Hanna and Gustav. Map is editable within Google "My Maps".

Entergy power outage map is working again, but only at the parish by parish level; here's a snapshot of the situation in Louisiana.

power outage map for entergy new orleans; shows state of power outages in most of louisiana.

Above is a network map of a portion of the US electric grid. Life is great if you live in one of the densely connected clusters using electricity generated nearby. Things start to get real complicated if energy needs to transferred from one cluster to another cluster in grid. Distance destroys. Electricity does not flow like information or water or oil. It is not easy to direct, and much electricity is lost to heat when transferred over long distances. On the internet, 100 packets sent from Cleveland all arrive in New York wholly intact -- not so with a 100 MW of electricity generated in Cleveland and sold to NY. Even more electricity would be lost going to Miami, and forget about LA. It makes no sense to transfer electricity made in Cleveland to Los Angeles -- most of it would be lost during the trip.

time of day electricity pricing pilot in DC area

Covalent Solar is seeking to revolutionize solar energy by producing high efficiency solar panels with unique aesthetic and functional advantages

power outages in northern VA

map showing power outages in the DC area, zip code by zip code

emergent organization around bicycle-powered cinema

Once you delve into the world of regular expressions, you may become drunk with the amazing power and potential they have, which results in things like Perl. Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it also rocks absolutely.

Beacon challenges policymakers, business executives and individuals to consider the "soft power" effects of their actions.

Steam billows from the twin cooling towers of the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant near Newport. The plant will be shut down at the end of this week for $70 million in refueling and maintenance work that will bring 1,400 workers to the area.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - More that a quarter million Saskatchewan homes and businesses lost electricity on Tuesday as storms in the U.S. Midwest caused computers at the provincial power company to shut down power stations and tie lines.

The traffic lights at 86th St. and Overlook Pkwy. were black for part of Thursday afternoon and IPL says 3,000 customers all the way up to 116th St. were without power. Residents suspect it was heat related.

after-action review of power problems at 365 Main that caused web 2.0 apps hosted there to go down.

near real time map of (what?) power prices. have never fully figured this out, but watch out when the map turns red

Utilities in the US are required to deliver power to consumers at 120 volts plus or minus 5%, which yields a range of 114 to 126 volts (European Standards: 230V +/- 10%).

The outage knocked out power at the start of the Toby Keith concert at the DTE Energy Music Theater; it eventually returned.

The unit of Entergy Corp. that provides electricity and natural gas service to New Orleans said Wednesday that it will quit maintaining the city's street lights at the end of the month.

Wibree is the first open technology offering connectivity between mobile devices or personal computers, and small, button cell battery power devices. By extending the role mobile devices can play in consumers' lives, this technology increases the growth p

the votes are tending towards solar, but some die-hards in Germany are adapting a SON hub to do the power conversions.

real time energy market information in the midwest (or) predict your grid meltdown

watching the grid in real time for brownout/blackout conditions - and for signals to be extra sensitive to turn off unneeded power sucking devices

creating a generator out of parts from discarded hard drives. quite a good supply of reusable materials buried in these things.

MARQUETTE, Mich. The Marquette Board of Light and Power has voted to support the Upper Peninsula Power Company in its efforts to restore Silver Lake.

turning off the lights and my tech hardware in the evening is now a firm ritual - who can sleep with 0.22 kw/h burning away a hole in the bank account and a hole in the ozone! I even swapped my son’s nightlight for an LED one with built in light sensor

Total standby power in the homes ranged from 14 to 169 W, with an average of 67 W. This corresponded to 5–26% of the homes’ annual electricity use. The appliances with the largest standby losses were televisions, set-top boxes and printers.

solar in, usb power out

hand crank battery generator with usb output

265w dual-core system requires another 135w to keep it cool. time to do cogeneration?

power over ethernet, 15 watts - that's quite a bit

as they so eloquently put it: "Power corrupts. Power failure corrupts absolutely."

power management is a big part of their efforts

crash from loss of power