The Alliance for Community Media, representing more than 3,000 (public, educational and governmental) access organizations, helped compile a map showing providers of local cable access TV channels nationwide
Here's ten stimulus-funded Smart Grid projects that are just plain interesting - and in some cases just plain exciting:
1) Liquid Metal Grid-Scale Batteries: This all-liquid metal battery developed by an MIT scientist is based on low cost, domestically available liquid metals. If it works this technology could enable round-the-clock power from America's wind and solar power resources.
2) The Pecan Street Project: This initiative builds on Austin Energy's existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites.
3) AEP Ohio gridSMART Demonstration Project: Improved distribution line efficiencies to reduce power losses; reliable, local back-up power for customers in case of outages; integration of community renewable power resources, and support for plug-in electric car deployment, which reduces peak power demands on the grid due to charging and offers a "green" alternative by reusing increasingly popular electric car batteries.
4) Arizona Public Service solar demonstration project: The utility plans to integrate 1.5 megawatts of solar power on a single "feeder" (or energy distribution area).
5) Midwest ISO synchrophasor implementation: This three-year program will place 150 synchrophasors (or PMUs) that will measure voltage and current within the Eastern Interconnection. The devices can monitor the state of the grid 30 times every second, increasing the efficiency and reliability of power delivery.
6) GE Smart Grid pilot on Maui: GE and Hawaii Electric are testing wall-mounted meters that will monitor power consumption of household appliances and let customers know when peak demand periods occur.
7) R&D to improve IT and Communications energy efficiency: The strategy here is that finding ways to improve energy efficiency in these sectors can result in huge energy and cost savings. The awards fall into three areas: equipment and software, power supply chain and cooling.
8) Energy East Advanced CAES Demonstration Plant: Uses an existing salt storage cavern to demonstrate an advanced, less costly 150 MW Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology plant. It will include a Smart Grid control system to improve grid reliability and enable the integration of wind and other intermittent renewable energy resources.
9) 1366 Technologies solar cells from silicon: Developing a shorter, waste-free silicon solar cell making process that it says could cut production costs by 80%.
10) Optimizing Regional Transmission System Operation: This demonstration project utilizes an advanced Smart Grid software technology from Boeing with military-grade cybersecurity for improving regional transmission system planning and operation.
China is on the verge of requiring telecommunications and Internet service providers to halt and report leaks of what the government deems to be state secrets, the latest in a string of moves designed to strengthen the government's control over private communications. The proposed amendment to the state secrets law, reported Tuesday by the state news media, defines a state secret broadly and loosely as information that, if disclosed, would damage China's security or interests in political, economic, defense and other realms. The wording of the amendment, as cited by the state-controlled newspaper China Daily, suggested that Internet and telecommunications companies would have to take a more proactive stance in identifying leaks of state secrets and their sources. The paper said companies must detect, report and delete unauthorized disclosures.
The communications ministry in Japan will let mobile phone operators decide whether to unlock handsets to remove restrictions on user access to services as far as current third-generation cell phones are concerned, ministry officials said Tuesday. As KDDI Corp has adopted a communications format for its ''au'' mobile phone service that is different from other operators, limits on access will remain even if the unlocking of handsets is made mandatory, the officials said in reference to the ministry's decision.
Four major Japanese electronics companies will standardize their core software platform for next-generation cellphones aimed at reducing costs and raising competitiveness, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. The firms -- Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC -- will apply the software system, used to drive animations and music, in the next-generation cellphones developed by NTT DoCoMo. The unified software will be loaded in NTT DoCoMo's next-generation model set to be launched during the financial year ending in March 2012.
Finland's telecoms regulator, the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA), has called on four of the country's major broadband operators to revise the contract conditions they presently offer to customers. FICORA says it has assessed "from the consumer's viewpoint, the lawfulness and reasonability of the fixed broadband service agreement terms" of DNA Finland, Elisa, Welho and TeliaSonera Finland, noting that, in its opinion there are issues regarding the vague definition of connection speeds coupled with "flaws in the agreement-making process."
New Zealand Communications and Technology Minister Steven Joyce has asked the Commerce Commission to reconsider its recommendation on mobile termination access services. In a statement Joyce said he received the final report on mobile termination access services in February, recommending the minister accept offers put forward by Telecom Corp of New Zealand and Vodafone New Zealand in lieu of regulation.
Venezuela's government has passed a law authorizing the creation of a new state-owned company, Industria Venezolana de Telecomunicaciones (Invetel), which will research, develop, manufacture, test and market prototype antennas, low noise amplifiers and other components to meet demand for telecoms and information technology. The new public limited company will be overseen by the Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology & Intermediate Industry (MPPCTII), which is also the main shareholder in national full-service telecoms operator CANTV and smaller telco Telecom Venezuela.
Department of Health and Human Services
May 26, 2010
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location:
The May 26th meeting will be conducted virtually only. Dial into the meeting: 1-877-705-6006;
webcast: http://altarum.adobeconnect.com/HITstandards
Contact:
Judy Sparrow
Office of the National Coordinator
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20201
202-205-4528, Fax: 202-690-6079,
judy.sparrow@hhs.gov
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9575.pdf
The committee will hear reports from its workgroups, including the Clinical Operations, Clinical Quality, Privacy & Security, and Implementation Workgroups. ONC intends to make background material available to the public no later than two business days prior to the meeting.
If ONC is unable to post the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, it will be made publicly available at the location of the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be posed on ONC's Web site after the meeting, at http:// healthit.hhs.gov
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Department of Commerce
May 19, 2010
9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9563.pdf
© 1994-2026 Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. All Rights Reserved.
