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Legal & Regulatory
Understanding Consequential Damages
One set of legal provisions that anyone in a business or operational role should be aware of is the “consequential damage waiver.” These provisions dictate two of the most vital aspects of any contract: What can you recover if the other party breaches the contract, and what do you have to pay if you do?
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Commentary
Thriving in a World Without 30-Year Careers
Long careers with one company ending with the presentation of a gold watch are passé. It’s every person for themselves these days. You should be preparing for that new job right now.
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Commentary
If This Is What It Takes to Produce 8 Kilowatts . . .
The cost of regulatory review is often equal to the cost of the cost of installation for very small projects. It’s time some common sense is used by legislators and government regulators when it comes to small power projects.
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Commentary
Workplace Drama: Master Your Energy
One strong way to master your energy drain at work is to understand how to interpret your emotional experiences differently. Then you can make positive and empowering choices that don’t drain your energy.
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Commentary
London’s Lessons for Good Management
The recent London Olympics were not just a triumph of athletics. They also showed how solid project management can bring an enormously challenging job to a successful conclusion, putting on one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.
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Finance
Trend—How Strong Is the Urge to Merge?
After a slowdown in the first half of 2012, merger activity in the power sector may be heating up again. One surprising target given the current environment: Coal.
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Solar
Ariz. Now Home to World’s Largest Solar PV Plant
The title of world’s largest operating solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant goes to Arizona. On Monday, First Solar Inc. announced that the Agua Caliente solar project has achieved a peak generating capacity of 250 MW connected to the electrical grid. The project, under construction in Yuma County, will have a total capacity of 290 MW when completed.
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Smart Grid
Regulators Cannot Move Fast Enough to Protect Grid, FERC Warns
In testimony before a congressional subcommittee, Joseph McClelland, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Office of Electric Reliability, enumerated the ways in which the U.S. regulatory system is ill-equipped to deal with time-sensitive threats to physical and cyber assets of its power system.
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Nuclear
Quebec’s Only Nuclear Plant to Close
The Canadian province of Quebec’s newly elected Parti Quebecois government announced on Tuesday that it has decided to shutter the province’s 30-year-old Gentilly-2 nuclear plant.
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Solar
DOE Offers $10M to Bring Down Rooftop PV "Soft Costs"
The Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday announced its SunShot Prize, a new competition to make it faster, easier, and cheaper to install rooftop solar energy systems. A total of $10 million in cash awards are available to the first three teams that repeatedly demonstrate the non-hardware costs, or price to plug in, can be as low as $1 per watt for small-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems on American homes and businesses.