EA September 2025
Large-scale projects
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Explore large-scale projects, EV policy, testing tech, utility batteries, training programs & more in Electrical Apparatus' September issue.
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ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | SEPTEMBER 2025
Electrical Manager
16 Employee engagement
Managers who wonder why workers aren’t engaged should look first at their own actions
By Bill O’Leary, EA Contributing Writer
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Pump It Up
21 Nevada’s big water-backup project
Pumps will play a pivotal role in ensuring that the Las Vegas region has a reliable backup source of water
By Kevin Jones, EA Senior Editor
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Electric Avenue
24 Legislative impacts on EV adoption
The withdrawal of federal funding from electric vehicle development is seen more as a temporary setback than as a death knell
By Maura Keller, EA Contributing Writer
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Conventions & Trade Shows
27 Tennessee titans
Giants of the industry put their knowledge, services, and products on display at EASA 2025 in Nashville
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor, and Kevin Jones, EA Senior Editor
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37 An easy cell
Expect attractions aplenty both inside and outside the exhibit hall at this month’s Battery Show in Detroit By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
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EA Reader Profile
38 ‘Être vite sur ses patins’
The French phrase, which translates to ‘Be fast on your skates,’ could be the motto of entrepreneur and native Québécois Daniel Frenette
By Colin Gregory-Moores, EA Contributing Writer
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Service & Sales Companies
41 Sidewinders rises
How this Utah company’s growth has progressed ‘as swiftly as a rattlesnake’
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
Motors & Generators
45 Steel the show
A look at the various methods of testing electrical steel for lamination performance
By Chase Fell, EA Contributing Writer
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Finance & The Workplace
50 What’s new in taxes
A few of the significant business provisions among the recent federal tax changes
By William Wiersema, CPA, EA Finance Editor
Energy
57 Beauty and the bill
Big? No question. As for ‘beauty’ — that’s in the eye of the construction project manager.
By Charlie Barks, EA Managing Editor
Training & Education
58 A record-size class of lineworkers
Cape Fear Community College graduates 53 students who will step into these critical jobs
By Bill O’Leary, EA Contributing Writer
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ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | JANUARY 2025
Departments
04 The editor's comment
A tip of the ten-gallon hat to EASA​
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05 Let's solve your problem
Answers to questions about motor windings and temperature
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06 Associations
American Clean Power responds to Congressional actions
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08 Know your industry
How ICMM is mining for a better tomorrow
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12 Calendar
Events on electrical contracting, manufacturing, and pumps
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14 Business
Second-quarter financial results come trickling in
16 Plant happenings
Fighting flies in Texas and making batteries in Kansas
19 Calendar
Utilities New and planned large utility-scale battery installations
40 Names & faces
Personnel changes at Apex Industrial and Ingersoll Rand
52 Product showcase
What’s new from Wolong, Franklin Electric, and Epoxyset
60 Classified advertising
Your monthly marketplace for equipment, businesses, and more
60 Cy's Super Service
The electrical service industry’s most prominent curmudgeon
61 EA puzzle
A crossword puzzle based on EA’s July and August issues
63 Moe, Genny & friends
The surreal world of an anthropomorphized motor and generator
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64 Direct & current
Solar funding canceled, and an AI alliance
56 Advertising index
Who’s who—and who’s where—in this issue of Electrical Apparatus