Big Orange wants contractors to spend more money at its home centers. Smart Money
HD Supply Utilities division gets into cyber security
North America's largest distributor of utility supplies helps N-Dimension Solutions Inc. install a security system for the smart grid in Princeton, Ill. EON Enhanced Online News
GE to provide 262 turbines for BP wind farm in Kansas
A massive $800 million wind farm spanning four counties is expected to employ 500 construction jobs and 30 operations jobs. The Wichita Eagle
All systems go for Denver airport expansion
A $500 million expansion is ready to take flight at Denver International airport. Denver Business Journal
Just For Fun: Surfing may get passing grade as high-school sport in Hawaii
Here's one more reason to move to the Aloha State. CNN
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Jim Lucy Blog
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.