Did you know that more than 170 of Platt Electric’s 800 employees are military veterans? Read about how the company was awarded for its efforts in Distributor News, which also notes that the books of The Home Depot now list a carrying value for HD Supply of zero. Also: State Electric, Stanion, Werner, and The Reynolds Company all take home supplyFORCE awards and there’s been a reorg at the top for Graybar.
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Share in Generac can now be bought on the NYSE; on the other end of the scale, Catalina Lighting descends into bankruptcy. Most of Manufacturer News is about green suppliers, however, including Clear Skies Solar, First Solar, FuelCell Energy, Plug Power, and Ready Solar—as well as Emerson, Fluke, Honeywell, 3M, S&C Electric, and Samsung.
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Along with the news that a green energy firm is buying a Vermont electrical contractor, you’ll find association, trade show, and standards items in Channel News. LightFair, the NECA Show, and Strategies in Light are noted, as well as the dimming of LED lamps (NEMA).
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An Indiana electrical contractor pays annually to have a 15-person workforce trained in CPR. Is it worth it? Ask the 62-year-old semi-retired man who suffered a massive heart attack on a construction jobsite and lived to tell about it, thanks to the know-how and quick work of two electricians. There’s that and much more in People News.
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An informed RETECH speaker claimed U.S. solar PV installations will double in 2010 (over 2009) -- followed by a double in 2011 (over 2010). And then our market will continue growth, until we're the #1 global solar market by 2013.
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