Taking ownership of your career

Taking ownership of your career

Career Smart Insights When starting a career, it is important to learn about the desired role, absorb any knowledge surrounding that role, engage with people in that role by networking and grow within that role by being a life-long learner. It’s also important to get involved in career path professionally, like a society. The biggest…

Six Ways Facilities Managers Can Save Energy During Heat Waves

Six Ways Facilities Managers Can Save Energy During Heat Waves

During heat waves, many homes, offices, and other buildings typically blast their air conditioning in order to stay cool. However, this increased energy demand can put added stress on the power grid and lead to brownouts or blackouts. In order to help provide relief to the grid (and save money), facilities managers should take steps…

FERC could slash inflation and double renewables with these grid upgrades

FERC could slash inflation and double renewables with these grid upgrades

You don’t have to be an economist to know that inflation is one of the chief financial challenges facing Americans today. Key indicators point to energy prices as a principal driver of the increased cost of living, as gasoline soars over $5 per gallon and natural gas spikes lead to inflated utility bills. Fortunately, a…

Utility, School District Use Electric Buses to Send Power Back to the Grid

Utility, School District Use Electric Buses to Send Power Back to the Grid

California utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced that it has successfully deployed an innovative technology that enables eight electric school buses to put electricity back on the power grid when needed, such as on hot summer days. A collaborative effort between SDG&E, the Cajon Valley Union School District, and locally based technology company…

Fossil-fuel-fired power plants placed on notice

Fossil-fuel-fired power plants placed on notice

  Fossil-fuel-fired power plants are creeping closer to stranded asset status. The newly released framework for Canada’s looming clean electricity regulations (CER) makes it clear that utilities and other entities selling power into public transmission and distribution networks have about 12 years to cut the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their production processes down to…

What Executive Assistants Really Want You To Know About Their Jobs

What Executive Assistants Really Want You To Know About Their Jobs

  The most important person in the office is often not the CEO at the top of the organizational chart — it’s their executive assistant. An executive assistant is not just answering emails and taking phone calls. EAs can also be strategic sounding boards for their boss’s ideas, and they use their administrative know-how to…