Keeping the lights on!

Article Abstract:

Deregulation of the energy industry will bring increasing temptation to cut corners to save money according to two managers at Power Technologies Inc.. Reliability of grids will be harder to maintain in the new market business environment. What is going on is reactive, not proactive with disorder prevailing in the industry. Deregulation will mean setting up a balancing act involving on-the-spot matching of supply and demand. The industry is concerned about market economics that may define the best cost-benefit tradeoff determining system reliability and that voluntary cooperation between utilities may be lost. Another feat is that open access may bring multiple transactions with system overloads. The industry is very much fractured and the utilities of the US have many forms, from being owned by states, each with a public utility commission, to being owned by investors, by municipalities and by the federal government. Technical issues are explained and both the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board Task Force on Electric System Reliability (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) are discussed; new capacity is covered.

Strategy & planning, New capacity, new plant construction, Electric Utilities, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Government regulation, Public affairs, Electric services, Corporate Images, Administration of Environmental Quality Programs, Utilities Regulation, Resources, Environ & Energy-State, Management, Prevention, Political aspects, Energy industries, Energy industry, Deregulation, Utility regulations, Environmental policy, Power failure, Power failures

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Gadgets gab at 60 GHz: cheap silicon transceivers broadcasting in this still-unlicensed band may usher in the hi-def wireless home

Article Abstract:

The benefits of the 60 GHz spectrum include high bandwidth, faster data rates and cheap semiconductors. The downside to the technology however, is that the spectrum is blocked by solid objects and its wavelength varies in direct proportion to the square of the wavelength. Suggestions on how to get around these problems are discussed.

Technical report

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Africa calling

Article Abstract:

Increasing usage of wireless communications in the backward African countries is discussed.

Africa, Technology application, Government communications regulation, Africans, Telecommunications policy

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