Tidying up my email in box tis morning--always a daunting task--and I found the release below. Happy Belated Birthday to commercial HVDC light. Who knew?

HVDC Light, the technology that made remote offshore wind farms possible, turns 10

Zurich, Switzerland, Nov.19, 2009 - ABB today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial HVDC Light installation, a technological innovation that opened up new possibilities in power transmission.

This just in from our friends at ARC. While Wurldtech may be getting its ducks in a row to lead on cybersecurity for the smart grid, that could be an overnight success several years in the making.

According to ARC, in a release dated today:

Check out this post. Wurldtech is expanding its footprint into the power gen industry and the smart grid. 

Getting Walt to take a vacation is not an easy thing. But he's been good this time. Have hardly heard from him at all. I expect Mrs. Walt issued some fairly severe threats. So this morning when an email from him popped up in my mailbox with the brief note, "This is big" attached, I thought I'd better take notice.

This just in:

ARGONNE, Ill. - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

This news release from Argonne National Labs just showed up in my mailbox. Argonne has just hosted a workshop on "the need for new methods to simulate the national power grid by modeling the creation and flow of electric power as well as the grid's connection to other critical infrastructures, such as transportation, gas, water and communications.

According to the Orange County (Calif.) Register, the power industry one won U.S. Supreme Court battle but lost a second.

On the bright side, the Court ruled 6-3 that the Environmental Protection Agency, when upgrading older power plants, may consider costs before demanding use of the most advanced technology, as required by law.

Gotta stop reading news on the Innerwebs. The amount of goofy stuff going on in the world is making my head hurt. This morning, before my second cup of coffee, I found this online.

Back again, sitting in Walt's chair with my feet on his desk. (No peeking, Walt!)

Old business first. The live link to Walt's August 10 post mentioned the last time I was here has been fixed. You should be able to get to it directly. As I said, law, sausages and magazines . . .