July Newsletter, Part 1
Jaya Jaya Sankara Hara Hara Sankara – Two fine incidents where our Periyava showers his grace to devotees. Many Jaya Jaya Sankara to Smt. Savitha Narayan for the Tamizh typing and Shri B. Narayanan Mama for the translation. Rama Rama (வாயினால் உன்னைப் பரவிடும் அடியேன் படுதுயர் களைவாய் பாசுபதா பரஞ்சுடரே) ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவாளின் மகிமை (4-7-2009) தன் அபார கருணையினால் பரப்பிரம்ம சொரூபமான சாட்சாத் ஈஸ்வரரே உலகம் உய்யப் பரப்பிரம்ம ரிஷியாம் சுகமுனிவரின் மேன்மையோடு கூடிய ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹா பெரியவாளெனும் திருஅவதாரம் கொண்டு அருள்பாலிக்கிறார்.
இப்பெரும் மகிமையினாலேயே பக்தர்கள் மனதில் அவர்கள் நினைப்பதையெல்லாம் அதிசயமாகத் தானும் அறிவதாய்த் தன்னையும் அறியாமல் ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவா வெளிப்படுத்திய சம்பவங்கள் பல உண்டு. புதுக்கோட்டை ராதா ராமமூர்த்தி என்ற பக்தையின் அனுபவம் இதற்கு ஒரு சான்றாகிறது. இந்த பக்தை ஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவாளை அடிக்கடி தரிசிக்கும் பாக்யத்தில் திளைத்துக் கொண்டிருந்தாள். ஒவ்வொரு முறை தரிசிக்கச் செல்லும்போதும் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளிடம் சமர்ப்பிக்க வெவ்வேறு காணிக்கைககளைக் கொண்டு போவதில் பக்தைக்கு சந்தோஷம்.
இப்படி ஒரு முறை தரிசிக்கப் புறப்படும் போது “இந்த முறை பெரியவாளுக்கு அழகாக அருகம்புல் மாலையைக் கொண்டு போனால் என்ன?” என்ற எண்ணம் தோன்றியது. அதேபோல் அருகம்புல்லை பக்தியோடு சேகரித்து மாலையாகத் தொடுத்து ஓரத்தில் அரளிப்பூவை பார்டர் ஆக அமைத்து மிக அழகாக பெரிய மாலையாகச் செய்து வைத்தார். அடுத்தநாள் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா தரிசனத்திற்குச் சென்றபோது அங்கு ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா பக்தர்களிடம் பேசி அருளிக் கொண்டிருந்தார். இந்த பக்தை, தான் கொண்டு சென்ற அருகம்புல் மாலையோடு கொஞ்சம் கல்கண்டையும் சேர்த்து இரண்டு பொட்டலங்களாக ஸ்ரீ மகானின் முன்னே வைத்து சமர்ப்பித்து நின்றார். ஏனோ ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவா அந்த இரண்டு பொட்டலங்களையும் ஓரமாகத் தள்ளி வைத்துவிட்டார்.
அவைகளில் என்ன இருக்கிறதென்று பார்க்கவில்லை. பொட்டலங்களை மீறி உள்ளே இருந்தவைகளும் கண்ணுக்குப் புலப்படவில்லை.
ஆனால் ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவாளின் ஞானக் கண்ணுக்குத் தெரியாதது ஒன்றுமில்லை என்ற நம்பிக்கையோடு பக்தை ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா முன்னே ஒருப்பக்கமாக நின்றபடி தரிசித்துக் கொண்டிருந்தார். காலை எட்டு மணியிலிருந்து பத்து மணியானது அப்போது ஒரு பெண்மணி ஸ்ரீபெரியவாளை தரிசிக்க வந்தாள். அப்பெண்மணியின் கையில் ஒரு வெள்ளிக் கவசம்! ஆம் பிள்ளையாருடைய கவசம். ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளின் உத்தரவுப்படி அந்தப் பெண்மணியின் ஊர் கோயில் பிள்ளையாருக்கு மிக நேர்த்தியான வேலைப்பாட்டுடன் செய்யப்பட்டிருந்தது தான் அந்த வெள்ளிக்கவசம்!
ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளின் அனுக்ரஹத்திற்காக அதைக் கொண்டு வந்திருந்தார். ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா அந்தக் கவசத்தை வாங்கித் தன் மடியில் வைத்திக் கொண்டார். பக்கத்தில் இருந்த கைங்கர்யம் செய்பவரை “அதை எடு” என்று இரண்டு மணி நேரமாக என்னவென்றும் பார்க்காமல் ஓரமாய் ஒதுக்கி வைத்திருந்தப் பொட்டலங்களை எடுக்கச் சொன்னார். பக்தை ராதாராமமூர்த்தியைத் தவிர அங்கு சுற்றிலுமிருந்த எந்த பக்தருக்கும் அந்தப் பொட்டலத்தில் இருப்பது என்ன என்று தெரியாது. அதை ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா பிரிக்கச் சொன்னபோதுதான் வெள்ளிப் பிள்ளையார் கவசத்திற்கே சொல்லிவைத்தாற்போல் உள்ளேயிருந்து அந்த அருகம்புல் மாலை!
இதில் அதிசயம் என்னவென்றால் பொட்டலத்தில் என்ன இருக்கிறதென்று ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா கேட்கவுமில்லை பார்க்கவுமில்லை. ஆனால் அது பிள்ளையாருக்கு உரிய மாலை என்பது போல் அதை எப்படிச் சேர்ப்பித்தாரோ! மாலையை அந்த வெள்ளிக் கவசத்திற்கு ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா சாத்தியபோது கச்சிதமாக அந்த பிள்ளையாருக்கே அளவெடுத்துச் செய்ததுபோல் அமைந்திருந்தது. மாலையுடன் அந்த வெள்ளிக் கவசத்தைத் தன் திருமார்பில் பொருத்தி வைத்துக் கொண்டு நாலாபுறமும் திரும்பித் திரும்பி ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா தரிசனம் கொடுக்கையில் எல்லா பக்தர்களும் ஆனந்தித்தாலும் இருவருக்கு மட்டும் அது மிக பிரத்யேகமாக இருந்தது. எங்கிருந்தோ புதுக்கோட்டை ராதா என்ற பக்தையின் மனதில் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளுக்கு இச்சமயம் அருகம்புல் மாலையைச் சமர்ப்பிக்கத் தோன்ற, வேறொரு பக்தை அதே சமயம் வெள்ளிப் பிள்ளையார் கவசத்தைக் கொண்டுவந்து ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளிடம் அனுக்ரஹம் பெற வந்து நிற்க, பொட்டலத்தில் என்ன இருக்கிறதென்று தெரியாதவர்போல் திருநாடகமாடும் ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவா அந்த இரு பக்தைகளின் மனப்பூர்வ பக்திக்குத் தன் வல்லமையை வெளிப்படுத்திக்காட்டிப் பூர்ண அனுக்ரஹம் பொழிந்துவிட்டார். உலகில் எல்லா இயக்கங்களுக்கும் தன் அபார கருணையே காரணம் என்பதை இந்த சம்பவத்தினால் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா வெளிப்படுத்தி அருளியுள்ளார். முன் எப்போதும் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளைப் பற்றிக் கேட்டறியாத, பார்த்தறியாத ஒரு பாமர பக்தனுக்கு அந்த மாபெரும் தெய்வம் அருளியுள்ள ஒரு அதிசய சம்பவம்.
விழுப்புரம் பக்கத்தில் ஒரு கிராமம். அங்கே ஒரு நரிக்குறவன். அவன் குடும்பத்தில் ஏதோ தீராதப் பிரச்சனை.
இவனுக்கு மனம் வெறுத்துப் போனது. தன் உயிரை மாய்த்துக் கொள்ளத் துணிந்துவிட்டான். அந்த ஊர் ரயில்வே ஸ்டேஷனுக்கு வந்து ஒரு ஓரமாகப் படுத்துக் கொண்டான். அடுத்து அங்கு வரும் ரயிலின் முன் விழ வேண்டுமென்ற தீர்மானம். இப்படி எண்ணியபடி ஸ்டேஷன் ஓரத்தில் ஓரு இடத்தில் தூங்கிப் போனவனுக்கு ஒரு ஆபூர்வ சொப்பனம். யாரோ ஒரு சாமியார் போன்ற ஒரு தோற்றம் தெரிந்தது. அந்த சாமியார் “ நீ சாக வேண்டாம்!
என்னை வந்து பார்” என்று சொல்லுவது போலிருந்தது. திடுக்கென்று விழித்துக் கொண்டான். முன்பு இல்லாதிருந்த புத்துணர்ச்சி அவனுள் ஏற்பட்டிருந்தது.
தற்கொலை முயற்சியை விட்டுவிட்டு அங்கிருந்து அகன்றான். ஆனால் இவனுக்கோ கனவில் காட்சித் தந்த சாமியார் யார் என்பதுத் தெளிவாகத் தெரியவில்லை. தனது வாழ்க்கை முறையில் எந்த சாமியாரிடமும் போவதோ, இன்னின்ன சாமியார்கள் இருக்கிறார்களென்று விபரம் அறிவதோ சிறிதேனும் அவசியமில்லாத நாடோடி ஜனக் கூட்டத்தின் ஒருவனால், இந்தக் கனவில் வந்த சாமியார் யார் என்பதை யூகிக்க முடியவில்லை. இருந்தாலும் அபூர்வமாய் தன் கனவில் தோன்றிக் காப்பாற்றியுள்ள அந்த முனிவரை எங்கேயாவது பார்க்கும் வாய்ப்பு கிட்டாதா என்ற ஏக்கம் அந்த பாமரபக்தனை ஆட்டுவித்தது. தன் கையில் பல நாட்களாக அணிந்திருந்த ஒரு தங்க மோதிரத்தை விற்றுக் காசாக்கிக் கொண்டான்.
ஒவ்வொரு ஊராய் அலைந்தான். அங்கங்கே திரிந்து பல சாமியார்களையும் பார்த்துவிட்டான். ஆனால் கனவில் தோன்றியக் காருண்யரை அவர்களிடம் காண இயலவில்லை. மீண்டும் மீண்டும் அலைந்தான்.
ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீஸ்ரீ மஹாபெரியவா வேலூர் பக்கத்திலிருந்த ஏகாம்பரகுப்பம் என்ற இடத்தில் அருளிக் கொண்டிருந்த சமயம், அந்த பாமரனுக்கும் ஸ்ரீ மகானின் அருள் பெரும் சமயம் கிட்டியது. ஒரு மாலைப் பொழுதில் அந்தப் பக்கம் திரிந்த பாமரபக்தன் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளெனும் பரமேஸ்வரரைப் பார்த்துவிட்டான். இதே சாமிதான்! என்னை நீ தானே வரச்சொன்னே! வெளியே வா” என்று தெய்வத்தைக் கண்டுவிட்ட குதூகலத்தோடு கூச்சலிட்டுக் கத்தினான்.
விடாமல் இவன் குரல் கொடுக்க, பரம காருண்ய மூர்த்தியாம் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா, ராஜம்மாள் என்ற பக்தையை அழைத்து “நீ போய் அந்த ஆளை என்னென்று விசாரித்து ஆகாரம் ஏதாவது சாப்பிடக்கொடு. நான் நாளைக்கு அவனைப் பார்க்கிறேன்” என்று அனுப்பினார். ராஜம்மாள் அந்த நரிக்குறவனிடம் சென்று “நீ யாரப்பா உனக்கு சாப்பாடு தரேன். உன்னை சாமி காலையிலேப் பார்த்துப் பேசுவாங்க” என்றாள். நான் ரெண்டு பெண்டாட்டிக்காரன். ரெண்டு பேர் கூடவும் சண்டை.
மூணாவது ஒரு பெண்ணைக் கட்டிக்கிட்டேன். அவ எனக்கு விஷம் கலந்து சாப்பாடு வைச்சதைப் பார்த்துட்டேன்.
மனசு உடைஞ்சுபோய் செத்துப்போகலாம்னு இருந்தேன். அப்போ இதே சாமியார்தான் கனவிலே வந்துக் காப்பாத்தி என்னை வந்து பார்னு சொன்னாங்க” என்று கண்ணீருடன் விவரித்தான். கேட்ட பக்தைக்கு வியப்பு!
ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாளின் அருள் எங்கெல்லாமோ வியாபித்திருக்கிறதே என்று நினத்துக் கொண்டாள். மறுநாள் காலையில் அந்த நரிக்குறவனுக்கு ஸ்ரீ பெரியவா வெளியே வந்துக் காட்சி அருளினார். உன்னைப் பார்த்தா என் தாய் மாதிரி இருக்கு. உன்கூடவே இருந்துடறேன்.
போற இடத்தில் எல்லாம் குப்பையைக் கூட்டறேன்” என்று கண்ணீர் மல்கக் கூறினான். “நீ கவலைப்படாம ஊருக்குபோ! இனிமே எல்லாரும் நல்லபடியா நடப்பாங்க. என்னக் கஷ்டம் வந்தாலும் என்னை நினைச்சுக்கோ. எல்லாம் சரியாப்போகும்” என்று ஆசிர்வதித்துப் பழங்களைத் தந்து, அங்கிருந்தோரிடம் பணம் வசூல் செய்து அவனுக்குக் கொடுக்கச் சொல்லி வலிய ஆட்கொண்டப் பாமர பக்தனை அனுப்பிவைத்தார் கருணாமூர்த்தி. இப்படி ‘நான் இருக்கிறேன்’ என்று அருளும் மாபெரும் தெய்வத்தைப் பற்றிக் கொண்டு சகல ஐஸ்வர்யங்களையும், சர்வ மங்களங்களையும் பெற்று பாக்கியம் அடைவோமாக. — கருணை தொடர்ந்து பெருகும்.
ஒரு துளி தெய்வாமிருதம் சமய விதிகளில் சில லௌகீகத்தில் அசௌகரியம் உண்டாக்குகின்றன. இதைக் காரணம் காட்டி சீர்திருத்தக்காரர்கள் சாஸ்திரங்களை மாற்றுகிறார்கள்.
நம் சாஸ்திரங்கள் சமூக வாழ்வை லௌகீகமாக மட்டும் கருத்தில் கொண்டவையல்ல. மனிதன் சம்ஸாரத்திலிருந்து மீள்வதற்கு வழி சொல்வதே சாஸ்திரத்தின் லட்சியம். ஆத்ம க்ஷேமத்தையே லட்சியமாக வைத்து லௌகீக வாழ்வுக்கு விதிகள் செய்து தருகிறபோது இவ்விதிகளை மாற்ற முடியாது.
இகலோகத்தில் பலவித அசௌகரியங்களை அனுபவித்தாவது பரலோகம் போவதற்கு சாஸ்திரங்கள் உபாயம் சொல்கிறது. ஆகையால் அவைகளை உலக ரீதியில் நமது சௌகரியப்படி மாற்றுவது நியாயமல்ல. (பாடுவார் பசிதீர்ப்பாய் பரவுவார் பிணிகளைவாய் சுந்தரமூர்த்தி சுவாமிகள் தேவாரம்) (VAyinAl unnaipparavidum adiyEn paduthuyar kalaivAy PAsupathA ParanjudarE) THE GREATNESS OF SRI SRI SRI MAHA PERIAVA.
SAksAt Eswaran, who is ParBrahma swaroopam, has incarnated as Sri Sri Sri MahAperiavAl with all the greatness of SukaBrahma Rishi, to protect this world. There are many incidents, where Sri MahAperiavA has revealed that He knew what His devotees had in their mind. The experience of a woman devotee, Smt. Radha Ramamurthy stands as evidence to this. This devotee used to have Sri PeriavA Dharsan very often.
She derived happiness by taking a variety of offerings to Sri Periava whenever she went for His Dharsan. Once during one of her visits, she thought of making a garland of ‘Arukam Pul’ (a variety of lengthy grass, which is considered very special for Lord Ganesha) and taking it as an offering. Maya 2018.1 maya bonus tools v18.0.1 keygen for mac. Accordingly, She made a big, beautiful garland of the ‘Arukam Pul’ with a border of ‘Arali’ flower (Nerium Oleander). When she went for PeriavA Dharsan the next day, Sri PeriavA was blessing the devotees. The lady kept the packet of the garland along with another packet of sugar candy in front of Him and stood at a distance.
But, Sri PeriavA, for some reason, pushed the two packets away from Him. He did not even see what were inside those two packets. But the devotee was sure that there was nothing that was not visible to the third eye of Sri MahaperiavA, and waited there without moving. The time was 10 A.M. Another lady came there to have Sri PeriavA Dharsan.
There was a silver shield in her hands. Yes, a shield in the form of PillaiyAr! The silver shield was made for the PillaiyAr idol in the temple of her native place as per instructions from Sri PeriavA.
She had brought it there to get Sri PeriavA’s Anugraham. Sri PeriavA took it and kept it in His lap.
He then asked the attendant to bring the two packets which were kept aside, to Him. None other than the devotee Smt.Radha Ramamurty knew what were inside the packets. When Sri PeriavA asked the packet to be opened, only then everyone saw the garland made of ‘Arukam Pul’, looking as if it was made exactly to suit the silver shield of PillaiyAr! The surprising thing was Sri PeriavA neither saw nor asked anyone, what was inside the packet.
But how did He know that the garland was made for PillaiyAr shield and took it out at the right time? When Sri PeriavA put the garland around the PillaiyAr, it looked perfectly made for that shield! When Sri PeriavA placed the shield on His chest and looked all around, all those who had gathered there were filled with joy. But, for two of them that sight was special.
How did it occur to the devotee Radha from Pudukkottai that she should make a garland of ‘Arukam Pul’ for offering to Sri PeriavA? How, at the same time, another devotee was to bring the silver PillaiyAr shield to Sri PeriavA for His Anugraham?
And Sri PeriavA also enacted a drama as if He did not know what was inside the packet and thus showered His blessings on the two devotees for their devotion which emanated from their hearts. By this Sri PeriavA has revealed that His abundant compassion was the reason behind all those acts happening in this world. Here is another incident where the great Almighty had blessed a poor devotee whom He had never seen or heard about. There lived a nomad in a village near Vizhuppuram.
There was an unresolved problem in his family. He was highly depressed and frustrated. He decided to end his life. He came to the village railway station and lay in a corner.
His decision was to jump before the next train that was due there. He just dozed off and in his sleep he had a strange dream. He saw someone looking like a sage. The sage was telling him, “Do not end your life; come and see me”. He woke up and found himself to be very energetic unlike before. He gave up his suicide attempt and left the place.
But he did not know who that ‘SAmiyAr’ was who came in his dream. Being one among the nomad community, as per their life style, there was no need for him to know about any ‘SAmiyAr’, let alone going and seeing any of them; so he was not even able to make a guess about this ‘SAmiyAr’ who appeared in his dream. But the craving to see that ‘SAmiyAr’ who came in his dream and saved his life took control of his mind totally. He sold a golden ring which he had been wearing for quite a long time and got some money. He went about from place to place, all over in search of that ‘SAmiyAr’, but none he saw matched the appearance of the one who appeared in his dream. He continued his search, but in vain.
Sri Sri Sri MahaperiavA was camping in a village by name EkAmbarakkuppam near VEloor(Vellore). The time had come for the poor nomad to get His Dharsan. One evening, the nomad who was wandering that side, saw Sri PeriavA, the SAksAt ParamEswaran. The same Sami only!
You only asked me to come, is it not? Then come out!”—he shouted with the extreme joy of having sighted God Himself! When he continued with his shouting, Sri PeriavA, the epitome of compassion called a devotee by name Rajammal and asked her to give him some food and tell him that He would see him the next day. Rajammal went and told him, “I will give you some food. Sami will see you tomorrow and talk to you.” “AmAm ThAyi! (yes, mother). I had two wives.
I quarreled with both of them and married a third one. One day, I saw her also adding poison to my food. I got totally dejected and decided to end my life. At that time this ‘SAmiyAr’ only came in my dream and saved me; He only asked me to come and see Him”—He narrated the whole affair with tears rolling down his cheeks. The devotee who heard all this was amazed where all the kindness of Sri PeriavA had spread!
Next day morning, Sri PeriavA came out and gave him Dharsan. I am seeing my mother in you! I will stay with you only. Wherever you go, I will sweep and clean the place.”—said he with tears.
“Return to your place without any worry whatsoever! They will all become normal and be good to you.
Whenever you have any difficulty, think of me; everything will be fine.”—–saying these kind words, Sri PeriavA gave him fruits and blessed him. He also asked the persons near him to collect some money from everyone and give him.
Let us all surrender to this epitome of compassion who always says, “I am here” and be prosperous. COMPASSION WILL CONTINUE A DROP OF DIVINE NECTAR. Some rules of the religion create some inconveniences in this worldly life. The reformists change the ‘SAstrAs’, pointing to these (inconveniences). Our SAstrAs never consider our social life purely as a material one. The objective of SAstrAs is to guide us in getting out of this materialistic life. When rules are made for the material life with the sole objective of achieving ‘Atma KshEmam’, such rules cannot be changed.
SAstrAs tell us the ways, to reach the other world, even if we have to go through inconveniences in this material world. Hence it is not good justice(fair) to change them according to our materialistic conveniences. (PAduvAr pasi theerppAi ParvuvAr pini kalaivAy) – DEvAram by Sundaramurthy Swamigal.
Our regrets that so many could not join us at the New York Academy of Sciences on Tuesday evening, June 28 th, either because of conflicting obligations or that we were sold out several days before the event because, as in past years, the Gala was a huge success, celebrating our colleagues for outstanding achievements while enjoying the opportunity to socialize and dine. Herein, we report on the keynote address of the president of NYSERDA, and the “of the year” awards for Energy project, Energy Engineer, Energy Services Professional, a special recognition for NYSERDA’S New York City Office, and the NYC High School Science Fair Awardees. Awards Energy Professional Development – to Asit Patel ( This was a surprise to Asit. The following was delivered by Fred Goldner.) Asit is a true professional in every sense of the word. The EPD recognizes people who have raised the bar for our industry and for achievements in training others. He has done both.
Patel is a Senior Energy Engineer and the Director of Training at the Association for Energy Affordability. At AEA he is responsible for a wide range of projects. As one of the lead energy auditors he not only coordinates and conducts instrumented energy audits of a wide range of building sizes, but he trains and mentors many of the other audit staff. Asit is one of the top boiler experts in the city, he specializes in testing and diagnosing large steam and hydronic heating systems. He is often called upon to prepare specifications for system optimization, upgrade or replacement of facilities’ heating/DHW systems. But beyond what most engineers do he takes the extra steps necessary to provide post design quality control to assure that all specifications, for equipment requirements, proper installation and optimal performance are met. Drawing on his experience Asit has designed and developed specifications for State-of-the-art improvements to enhance efficiency of the existing system.
On regular basis, Asit develops and maintains contact with manufacturers and vendors of boilers, burners, other HVAC equipment, and other energy conservation controls and measures for research, upgrading of system designs and materials for upcoming training seminars. & Research Asit is one of the most prolific and effective trainers in our industry. In the past year alone he has taught over 1,100 students in 7 different courses. His students include facility maintenance and operations staff, facility management and owners, and trade contractors, as well as other energy and engineering professionals. These courses cover topics that are critical to the operation of our clients’ buildings: Water and Energy Conservation, Heat and Hot Water Seminar, Occupational Health and Safety, and Clean boilers training. In recent years Asit has traveled to other large cities around the country where he trained energy auditors form WAP programs on the proper techniques for utilizing Energy Audit software tools. Not only does Asit deliver the training but he has served as the lead in the development of a number of new building and professional certifications in energy efficiency practices: Multifamily Building Energy Efficient Building Operators, and Hydronic Heating System Designers.
The training and certification available from these NYSERDA funded programs is helping to build a qualified and recognizable energy efficiency infrastructure in the state. Asit was on the Expert Panels that shaped these certifications and has been one of the principal curricula and training materials developers of these weeks’ long courses. He has delivered these courses across NYS from Rochester to Poughkeepsie, and up at AEA’s Energy Management Training Center (which by the way he helped design) up in the Bronx. Additionally, Asit has been a very active Board member of NYAEE for some 7+ years.
He is Past-President of the NY-AEE, and even though he stepped down from that position a year and a half ago he still steps up for the chapter taking on key responsibilities that help make our chapter run; in fact many of you here tonight probably spoke with him in working out your registration for this Gala. Energy Engineer of the Year Award – to Charles Copeland, PE Charles Copeland’s interest in energy efficiency dates back to 1970 when, after seven years at a large engineering firm, he joined a small startup firm now known as Goldman Copeland Associates, P.C. In addition to some major projects, GCA performed engineering services for existing low income housing in the South Bronx and elsewhere. In 1975 Copeland helped out an organization called the Energy Task Force, designing one of the first major solar hot water projects in Manhattan for sweat equity residents of 519 East 11 th Street.
This building eventually installed a wind-powered generator on the roof, which initiated early technical discussions with Con Edison and the PSC about safely transmitting power into the grid. Another solar energy design by Copeland for an urban rooftop solar greenhouse in the South Bronx received an AIA award in 1981. In 1976 Copeland worked on one of the first Veteran’s Administration hospital energy studies, developing a format of cascaded savings to avoid overly optimistic energy savings projections.
This became the prototype for seven similar studies performed by GCA for VA hospitals along the east coast and as far west as Lincoln, Nebraska. This energy work eventually led to an early application of computer modeling for existing buildings, resulting in a more accurate representation of the interactions of various energy savings strategies.
In 1982 Copeland authored an ASHRAE paper called “Retrofit Energy Studies Using the DOE-2 Computer Simulation Program” summarizing this experience. In 1981 GCA was awarded the engineering portion of the New York City Energy Conservation Capital Program for 600 municipal buildings. The largest program of its kind at that time, it included most of the major municipal structures in New York City, including the major museums. Charles Copeland directed over 20 separate consultants in the analysis and design of energy conservation measures in these buildings. His article titled 'Managing New York City's Energy Conservation Program' was published by ASHRAE in 1983. In 1985 Copeland, together with John Leffler, developed a concept of series and parallel chilled water flows for New York University Medical Center which saved the hospital approximately $500,000 in 1985 dollars.
Copeland’s 1987 ASHRAE magazine article, 'NYU Medical Center Links Six Chillers', outlines the technical aspects of this unique design for which GCA won energy awards from ASHRAE and Owens Corning. With Charles Copeland as the principal-in-charge, GCA won a long-term contract in 1988 to redesign the mechanical/electrical infrastructure of Grand Central Terminal (GCT). Copeland’s partner, Howard Holowitz, continues the work to this day, managing the engineering design for the retail development within the Terminal and commissioning the chilled water system.
Charles Copeland has worked on many historic renovations including the upgrade of the Old US Customs House at Bowling Green and the adaptation of the lower floors of that building for the installation of the National Museum of the American Indian. His recent Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church project, which featured displacement air conditioning for the main sanctuary utilizing the vintage 1870's footrests, won this year’s first place local chapter ASHRAE technology award for existing public assembly buildings. Copeland has engineered building systems for all types of facilities including museums and theaters, colleges and universities, schools, hospitals, industrial facilities and residential buildings. Over the years, he has supervised the design of approximately 100,000 tons of chiller plants, most of them retrofitted, and has worked as a long-term consultant to several of the larger New York City commercial office building landlords. His forthcoming article for the June 2005 edition of Engineered Systems describes GCA’s design of the new central chiller plant and chilled water distribution system at Vassar College. In addition to many commercial office projects, Copeland is currently working on four distributed generation projects in commercial buildings.
Other current projects include a recreational center for Battery Park City that is applying for LEED TM certification, an environmentally conscious low income Manhattan apartment building, and an historic pier that will be used by the National Park Service for access to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. He is also updating a 1995 report for Con Edison on the reuse of condensate from the Con Edison steam system using current costs and savings.
The update includes expanding the report to assess the economic feasibility of purchasing Con Edison steam versus purchasing electricity, natural gas or fuel oil. A LEED TM AP, Copeland is partner-in-charge for the LEED TM application and commissioning of GCA’s design of the MEP systems for the St. George Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry. Energy Service Professional – to Ruben S. Brown Ruben S.
Brown, President of The E Cubed Company, LLC, has participated in the restructuring of competitive retail and wholesale energy market throughout the region northeastward from Virginia since the early 1990s. His current or recent clients are active at the forefront of market development in wholesale and retail electric, gas and energy service markets from Atlanta, Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts. He works on specific site and market niche applications as well as the design and negotiation of entry into whole markets and segments of those markets, for example New York's System Benefits Charge (SBC) funded market ($250 M/Yr.) administered by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).
His clients have ranged from large generators to smaller distributed generators on the one hand and from large and small end-users to marketers and Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) on the other hand. Several major natural gas suppliers have employed his assistance in moving into electricity markets, including retail markets. One of those companies has now also become the largest independent wholesale generator in New York State with assets concentrated in Southeastern New York. He represented the competitive ESCO industry in negotiating the design and implementation of New York's retail and wholesale markets. He has helped clients evaluate and enter into retail and wholesale markets in New England, New York and the Mid-Atlantic States, including for example, the Apartment and Office Building Owners Association of Greater Washington, DC. Because of his assistance, some clients have concluded that limited market entry into particular markets was wise at a given time. Others obtained and maintain substantial market share.
Brown's and the firm's recent Combined Heat & Power (CHP) and distributed generation clients have included: Joint Supporters (voluntary association), Equity Office Properties Trust, American DG, Northern Power, RealEnergy, Fairway Markets (a metro NY regional food chain), Red Hook Stores (redeveloping and repowering 145 year old buildings on the Brooklyn Waterfront, the Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools, Monroe Co. Award of Excellence To Micky Ha and Avhik Mitra, Bayside High School For their project exhibited at the New York Academy of Sciences’ High School Science and Engineering Fair at City College, February 13, 2005: Is Fiber-Optics Beneficial to Our Environment? Presented at the meeting of the New York Chapter AEE at The New York Academy of Sciences, June 28, 2005 The project was well conceived, finely executed, and cogently displayed, testifying to these students’ keen appreciation for the global problems of energy and environment. (Dick) Koral, Judge, for the New York Chapter AEE Michael Bobker, President. Careers in Energy Services: For those interested in learning about careers in energy services (and how to find one), go to: to read the April and May EnergyBuyer Tips of the Month on this subject. Energywiz National Academy of Engineering Suggests Revamping Engineering Education By Jeffrey Brainard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 2005 WASHINGTON - Colleges should reshape engineering education to attract students to what is becoming an increasingly complex profession, according to a report from the National Academy of Engineering.
A panel of the academy recommended several changes, which include encouraging students to complete master's degrees as a professional qualification and offering continuing-education programs similar to executive M.B.A.' The panel that wrote the report, 'Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century,' says engineers need broader interdisciplinary training to adapt to the increasing pace of technological innovation and global competition in industries driven by engineering. Released on Thursday, also says that both colleges and industry should do a better job of explaining the benefits of an engineering education because fewer American students are pursuing one. 'Because most engineers work in industry and often do not interact with the general public, many people are unclear about what engineers do, and high-school students have no idea what an engineering education offers,' said G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and chairman of the panel that wrote the report. The report suggests, among other changes, that:. Colleges and industry should view graduates with bachelor's degrees as engineers in training' and should view a master's as the engineering 'professional' degree.
Colleges should offer advanced technical training to working engineers. 'The half-life of cutting-edge technical knowledge today is of the order of a few years,' the report says. Engineers' education should include exposure to the humanities and training in analytical, communication, and foreign-language skills. Four-year engineering programs should better integrate their curricula to teaching offered by two-year colleges. Forty percent of engineers earning bachelor's degrees attended community colleges, the report says. More engineering-department faculty members should have practical experience from working in industry. Engineering departments should provide prospective students with clearer information about details of their programs and student outcomes.
'There appears to be an unlimited number of different engineering curricula structures. Offered by the multitude of engineering programs across the country,' the report says. © 2005 by The Chronicle of Higher Education Announcing “Clean & Green!” 5th Annual Empire Energy & Environmental Exposition (E4TM). Monday, October 10 th: Golf Tournament Tuesday, October 11 th and Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Gideon Putnam Hotel and Conference Center Saratoga Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs, NY The Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc. (EBA/NYS) will host the 5th Annual Empire Energy & Environmental Exposition (E4) at the Gideon Putnam Hotel and Conference Center in Saratoga Springs, New York on October 10th through the 12th, 2005.
An estimated 500 professionals, business leaders, policymakers, and governmental leaders from all regions of New York State will gather under the same roof to advance the market for energy and environmental issues. E4 features a large, multi-track conference agenda, a full line-up of seminars on a variety of current topics, and an exposition featuring the energy and environmental market’s most promising new technologies. 2005 E4 Highlights Include: Speakers on Energy, Green Buildings, and Transportation, Ride & Drive (Don’t miss Natural Gas Vehicle Pavilion) and Exposition Hall - free to the public (at specific times) The mission of the Exposition is to stimulate business development, awareness and growth opportunities through networking and educational seminars; act as an information clearinghouse for market, regulatory, technical, and financial information, and serve as the voice for informing government and business leaders about the needs and economic opportunities of the energy and environmental industry.
A full agenda and conference registration will soon be available. Check the EBA/NYS Calendar of Events at - www.EBA-NYS.org Sponsors: NYSERDA, New York State Energy Research & Development Authority USDOE, US Department of Energy EPA, US Environmental Protection Agency Affiliates: Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc. (CEEP) Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities available. For information please contact Ed Parker at (518) 432-6400 x227 or Email to ed@eba-nys.org. Check for updates.
News Briefs In N.J., Solar Sells; Incentives Help Energy Market Grow; Jun 21 – The Record, Bergen County, N.J. New Jersey will never replace Florida as the Sunshine State, but business leaders and government officials are hoping to make this the Solar State. Helped by incentives and rebates, the solar business is hot and getting hotter in the state, said M.
Todd Foley, director of business development and external affairs for BP Solar, a division of BP plc, the international energy giant. 'New Jersey's solar program is a model for the nation and the world,' Foley said Monday at a solar seminar at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. 'New Jersey is one of the fastest- growing solar markets in the United States.' More than 100 solar market manufacturers, installers, service providers and customers participated Monday in what was called the 'New Jersey Solar Market Mixer.'
Last month the state recorded its 500th solar installation since 2001, and the number of companies doing them in the state has grown from two in 1993 to more than 90 today, Fox said. Several speakers cited rebates through the New Jersey Clean Energy program and payments through the state's Solar Renewable Energy Certificates Program, or SREC, for sparking solar power's dramatic growth. Customers can get rebates up to 70 percent of the installation cost, and more that $21 million in rebates have been issued since 2001, including nearly $11 million last year. Registered solar owners also receive one SREC for each 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity they produce, and can sell the certificates to electric suppliers or brokers for $160 to $200 each, depending on market dynamics and demand. The certificates are valuable to suppliers because state law requires them to include a certain percentage of renewable energy in their portfolio. An average residential solar system produces 8,000 kwh, generating up to $1,600 a year in SRECs. So far, projects range from single-family homes to public schools, corporate offices and the Whole Foods in Edgewater.
Among the more ambitious projects is the NJIT roof installation, a grid of 160 photovoltaic modules that can produce 50 MWH a year. ComEd and Social Security Administration Launch One of the Largest Solar Power Installations in the Midwest; CHICAGO, June 20, 2005, PRNewswire This summer, the sun will have an important job working for SSA - which has contracted with ComEd to complete downtown Chicago's largest solar energy installation and one of the largest in the Midwest. By August, new solar panels serving the SSA building at 600 W. Madison will produce up to 82 kW of electricity. This initiative will produce significant environmental savings for the SSA and enhance air quality in Chicago contributing to resource conservation nationwide. Based on EPA estimates, the system will displace more than four million pounds of the primary greenhouse gas CO2 over its 30-year design life.
This is equivalent to the CO2 absorbed by 20 acres of trees. The system also will save the equivalent of almost 6,000 barrels of oil. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) one of the nation's largest electric utilities with more than $14 billion in revenues and a customer base of five million. ComEd provides service to approximately 3.7 million customers across Northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state's population. (SOURCE Commonwealth Edison Company) Philippines Inaugurates Largest Wind Farm in SE Asia.
MANILA, Jun 21, 2005 - AsiaPulse The country moves a step closer to achieving energy independence with the inauguration last Saturday of the 24.75 MW wind power project in Bangui Bay, Bangui, Ilocos Norte province. Harnessing the strong winds coming from the north-northeast of the country, the wind farm is the largest wind power project in Southeast Asia, comprising 15 towers with an installed capacity of 1.65-MW wind turbine generator per tower. Department of Energy Secretary Raphael P.M.
Lotilla congratulated NorthWind Power Development Corp. For undertaking this landmark project that supports the governments drive towards energy self sufficiency. The country’s energy independence agenda aims to achieve 60-percent energy self-sufficiency by 2010 by increasing exploration of indigenous oil and gas, aggressively developing renewable energy potential such as biomass, solar, wind and ocean resources, increasing the use of alternative fuels, forming strategic alliances with other countries and strengthening and enhancing energy efficiency and conservation programs. As TVs Grow, So Do Electric Bills; By Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor, June 16, 2005 Not long ago, Andrew Fanara was shopping with his wife for a new big-screen television. Everything was going fine, until the sales clerk discovered Mr. Fanara was an energy watchdog for the federal government. Pulling Fanara aside, the clerk confessed: His own new 61-inch TV gulped electricity the way a big SUV guzzles gasoline.
'The month after he got it, he got a call from his landlord, who noticed a big jump in the utility bill,' recalls Fanara, team leader of the Energy Star program at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 'It was the kid's big-screen television.' Revelations about energy-munching appliances aren't uncommon in Fanara's job. But lately, he's hearing more about big-screen TVs - and that's worrisome. With sales expected to skyrocket - and with only outmoded testing and efficiency standards available to alert people about energy consumption - digital big-screen TVs are poised to generate big hikes in home energy use and pollution, unless manufacturers act swiftly to adopt more efficient technologies.
Already, televisions account for about 4% of annual residential electricity use in the United States - enough to power all of the homes in the state of New York for a year, according to a new NRDC studyThrow in a DVD and VCR player, a pair of high-definition set-top boxes, and other household TVs, and the total TV-related energy use for the home rises to about 10 percent, the NRDC estimates. U.S. Has Plans to Again Make Own Plutonium By William J. Broad, The New York Times, June 27 2005 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war, stirring debate over the risks and benefits of the deadly material. The substance, valued as a power source, is so radioactive that a speck can cause cancer. Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Officials say the program could cost $1.5 billion and generate more than 50,000 drums of hazardous and radioactive waste.
Project managers say that most if not all of the new plutonium is intended for secret missions and they declined to divulge any details. But in the past, it has powered espionage devices. 'The real reason we're starting production is for national security,' Timothy A.
Frazier, head of radioisotope power systems at the Energy Department, said in a recent interview. He vigorously denied that any of the classified missions would involve nuclear arms, satellites or weapons in space. The laboratory is a source of pride and employment for many residents in the Idaho Falls area. But the secrecy is adding to unease in Wyoming, where environmentalists are scrutinizing the production plan - made public late Friday - and considering whether to fight it. They say the production effort is a potential threat to nearby ecosystems, including Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and the area around Jackson Hole, famous for its billionaires, celebrities and weekend cowboys, including Vice President Dick Cheney. 'It's completely wrapped in the flag,' said Mary Woollen-Mitchell, executive director of Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free, a group based in Jackson Hole.
'They absolutely won't let on' about the missions. 'People are starting to pay attention,' she said of the production plan. 'On the street, just picking up my kids at school, they're getting keyed up that something is in the works.'
Plutonium 238 has no central role in nuclear arms. Instead, it is valued for its steady heat, which can be turned into electricity. Nuclear batteries made of it are best known for powering spacecraft that go where sunlight is too dim to energize solar cells. For instance, they now power the Cassini probe exploring Saturn and its moons.
Federal and private experts unconnected to the project said the new plutonium would probably power devices for conducting espionage on land and under the sea. Even if no formal plans now exist to use the plutonium in space for military purposes, these experts said that the material could be used by the military to power compact spy satellites that would be hard for adversaries to track, evade or destroy. 'It's going to be a tough world in the next one or two decades, and this may be needed,' said a senior federal scientist who helps the military plan space missions and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the possibility that he would contradict federal policies. 'Technologically, it makes sense.' Early in the nuclear era, the government became fascinated by plutonium 238 and used it regularly to make nuclear batteries that worked for years or decades. Scores of them powered satellites, planetary probes and spy devices, at times with disastrous results. In 1964, a rocket failure led to the destruction of a navigation satellite powered by plutonium 238, spreading radioactivity around the globe and starting a debate over the event's health effects.
In 1965, high in the Himalayas, an intelligence team caught in a blizzard lost a plutonium-powered device meant to spy on China. And in 1968, an errant weather satellite crashed into the Pacific, but federal teams managed to recover its plutonium battery intact from the Santa Barbara Channel, off California. Such accidents cooled enthusiasm for the batteries. But federal agencies continued to use them for a more limited range of missions, including those involving deep-space probes and top-secret devices for tapping undersea cables. In 1997, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared to launch its Cassini probe of Saturn, hundreds of protesters converged on its Florida spaceport, arguing that an accident could rupture the craft's nuclear batteries and condemn thousands of people to death by cancer. Plutonium 238 is hundreds of times more radioactive than the kind of plutonium used in nuclear arms, plutonium 239.
Medical experts agree that inhaling even a speck poses a serious risk of lung cancer. But federal experts say that the newest versions of the nuclear batteries are made to withstand rupture into tiny particles and that the risk of human exposure is extraordinarily low. Today, the United States makes no plutonium 238 and instead relies on aging stockpiles or imports from Russia. By agreement with the Russians, it cannot use the imported material - some 35 pounds since the end of the cold war - for military purposes. With its domestic stockpile running low, Washington now wants to resume production. Though it last made plutonium 238 in the 1980's at the government's Savannah River plant in South Carolina, it now wants to move such work to the Idaho National Laboratory and consolidate all the nation's plutonium 238 activities there, including efforts now at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
By centralizing everything in Idaho, the Energy Department hopes to increase security and reduce the risks involved in transporting the radioactive material over highways. Late Friday, the department posted a 500-page draft environmental impact statement on the plan at. The public has 60 days to respond. Frazier said the department planned to weigh public reaction and complete the regulatory process by late this year, and to finish the plan early in 2006. The president would then submit it to Congress for approval, he said. The work requires no international assent.
The Idaho National Laboratory, founded in 1949 for atomic research, stretches across 890 square miles of southeastern Idaho. The Big Lost River wanders its length. The site is dotted with 450 buildings and 52 reactors - more than at any other place - most of them shut down. It has long wrestled with polluted areas and recently sought to set new standards in environmental restoration. New plutonium facilities there would take five years to build and cost about $250 million, Mr. Frazier said.
The operations budget would run to some $40 million annually over 30 years, he said, for a total cost of nearly $1.5 billion. An existing reactor there would make the plutonium. Frazier said the goal was to start production by 2012 and have the first plutonium available by 2013. When possible, Mr. Frazier said, the plutonium would be used not only for national security but also for deep-space missions, reducing dependence on Russian supplies.
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Since late last year, the Energy Department has tried to reassure citizens living around the proposed manufacturing site of the plan's necessity and safety. But political activists in Wyoming have expressed frustration at what they call bureaucratic evasiveness regarding serious matters. 'It's the nastiest of the nasty,' Ms.
Woollen-Mitchell said of plutonium 238. Early this year, she succeeded in learning some preliminary details of the plan from the Energy Department. Frazier provided her with a document that showed that production over 30 years would produce 51,590 drums of hazardous and radioactive waste. He also referred to the continuing drain on the government's national security stockpile, saying the known missions by the end of this decade would require 55 pounds of plutonium for 10 to 15 power systems.
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Those uses, he said, would leave virtually no plutonium for future classified missions. Woollen-Mitchell was unswayed. In January she told the Energy Department that so much information about the plan remained hidden that it had 'given us serious pause.' The Energy Department is courting Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free because it has flexed its political muscle before.
Starting in late 1999, financed by wealthy Jackson Hole residents like Harrison Ford, it fought to stop the Idaho lab from burning plutonium-contaminated waste in an incinerator and forced the lab to investigate alternatives. In the recent interview, Mr. Frazier said he planned to talk to the group on Tuesday and expressed hope of winning people over.
'I don't know that I'll be able to make them perfectly comfortable,' he said, 'but they know that the department is willing to listen and talk and take their comments into consideration.' 'We have a good case,' Mr. Frazier added, saying the department could show that the Idaho plan 'can be done safely with very minimal environmental impacts.' Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company Ruben Brown’s Response Upon Receiving AEE/NY Award: I Thank the AEE for this distinct honor. In October 2004 I spoke briefly at the AEE monthly meeting.
Thank you all for your encouragement. We were talking about the Con Edison Rate Case negotiations which I was about to enter when things were going no where – and slowly. I indicated that when entering policy negotiations, such as these, I adhered to this simple rule. “Have a single thing that you want to achieve and work to get it. You might not get more, but you can go home with a “win” and sometimes more.
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Not only did NYSERDA get $112 million in program funds for Demand Response Resources (energy efficiency, distributed generation, and load management) that Peter Smith just talked about to bridge it over until SBC III might be approved, it got 9% administrative fees in addition. Con Edison also got the same amounts to target transmission and distribution relief. And if Con Edison can’t spend it effectively, the unused balance of the funds flows to NYSERDA to administer.
I wish to modify a reference in Lewis Kwit’s very kind introductory remarks. I was present at the birth of the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) having negotiated its design and then served as the Energy Services industry representative on the eighteen-member Selection Committee for the Independent Board of Directors. Throughout these and many other negotiations since 1989, I have served as representative and spokesman of an ad hoc voluntary association called the Joint Supporters to which Fred Goldner referred in his introductory remarks.
Many of you at times have been burdened by having too much information flow to your in baskets, but many have found use for some of it. Little did I know that Fred and others redistributed reports and requests to many of you in the NYAEE membership. Being in business as a strategic services firm, we try to keep the Joint Supporters core active roster at any given time to entities that are recent, current, or pending clients of The E Cubed Company, LLC. I was educated first as a historian and then in technology and science policy and regulation. When I can’t think of something to say in the policy arena (and those who know me realize the near impossibility of that) I turn to historians such as Fernando Braudel for insightful perspective. Neither he nor I are philosophers. To Braudel the micro-history of events consists of the unusual, the outstanding, and atypical.
The micro-history of negotiations is events that consist of the unusual, the outstanding, and atypical. The freedom for individuals to affect them is limited, but the opportunities to do so are real. Quoting Braudel: By stating the narrowness of the limits of action, is one denying the role of the individual in history? One may only have the choice between striking two or three blows: the question still arises: will one be able to strike them at all? To strike them effectively? To do so in the knowledge that only this range of choices is open to one?
I would conclude with the paradox that the true man of action (including engineers I might add) is he who can measure most nearly the constraints upon him, who chooses to remain within them and even to take advantage of the weight of the inevitable, exerting his own pressure in the same direction. All efforts against the prevailing tide of history – which is always so obvious – are doomed to failure. So when I think of the individual, I am always inclined to see him imprisoned within a destiny in which he himself has little hand, fixed in a landscape in which the infinite perspectives of the long term stretch into the distance both behind and before.” –Fernand Braudel 26 th June 1965. We can engineer in the moment – and at an event.
Let’s return to that rate case settlement for the Con Edison territory. We will all attempt to meet electricity load growth for the next three years with Demand Resources, e.g.
Distributed generation, energy efficiency, and load management. We may make a difference, but we cannot escape the destiny that the long term history of New York makes it already one of the most efficient energy consuming regions in North America. Thanks to you – the energy engineers. Go back to my admonishment in the beginning. Pick out the single thing that you want to achieve and be up here next year yourself.
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