April 4, 2012 - Ridgid has launched its 2012 Reputation Roadshow, offering attendees product demonstrations and sneak previews of the company’s latest tools and technologies in the commercial/industrial, digital inspection/locating and pressing markets. Besides American stops, the tour will make stops across four Canadian provinces before concluding in September.

April 4, 2012 - B.C.’s Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) Program is getting an extra jolt from the implementation of the $2.74-million Community Charging Infrastructure Fund that will see 570 public charging stations across municipalities, regional governments, First Nations, and B.C. businesses and institutions by March 31, 2013.

April 4, 2012 - Schneider Electric and its foundation announced the creation of Schneider Electric Teachers Association. This non-government organization (NGO) aims to promote volunteering of current and retired Schneider Electric employees in partner organizations of the Schneider Electric Foundation, dedicated to teaching and professional training within the energy field.

April 4, 2012 - UL (Underwriters Laboratories) is acquiring DEWI—a player in wind energy measurement and testing services—from the German state of Lower Saxony.

April 4, 2012 - Thomas & Betts has scheduled a special meeting of its shareholders for May 2, 2012, where they will vote on the approval of the merger agreement pursuant to which ABB will acquire Thomas & Betts for $72 per share in cash. Thomas & Betts has filed…

March 28, 2012 - The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)—a venue dedicated to advancing wireless and wireline communications—has initiated registration for its first “paperless” event, being held June 10-15 in Ottawa. Themed “Connect - Communicate - Collaborate”, IEEE ICC 2012 is expected to host more than 2000 industry professionals…

March 28, 2012 - Scientists today described a new, more efficient version of a device the size of a home washing machine that uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to makeelectricity while simultaneously cleaning up the sewage.

March 28, 2012 - GE Lighting is again taking its “energy-saving, cost-reducing” lighting solutions on the road with the 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour. This “tradeshow-on-wheels” is designed to give designers, distributors, architects, contractors, facility maintenance and utility executives a first-hand experience of GE’s latest innovations in lighting technology.

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March 28, 2012 - Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental ‘smart outlet’ that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable…