The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued rulemaking on test procedures for small electric motors for more than a decade. The present “final rule,” effective February 3, 2021, is the culmination of those efforts.

View key findings and takeaway excerpts from the 2020 US Department of Energy (USDOE) Motor System Market Assessment Motor (MSMA). A longer longer version of the key findings and takeaways is also available for download as well as the complete 252-page 2020 MSMA Report.

View the results of survey that asked EASA members and members of 25 other associations to gauge the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The United States Congress passed long-awaited energy legislation as part of the economic stimulus bill approved in late December 2020 (Division Z in the bill). The energy bill has two distinct areas that will affect EASA members.

Richard L. Dey, 77, of Rehoboth Beach, Deleware, passed away on Friday, February 26. He was the owner of Lockwood Electric in Trenton, New Jersey.

August “Gus” Baechle, 89, of Ballwin, Missouri, passed away on October 17, 2020. He served as EASA’s Executive Vice President from 1961 until his retirement in 1996.

Linda Gladden has joined the EASA staff as Marketing & Communications Manager. Ms. Gladden is a communications leader with 19 years of experience building communications teams in the association and public pension arenas.

EASA is sad to learn of the passing of Craig Hartman, Mary Horner, Mary Jean Parker Redmond, Martin Rigsbee, Sr., Wallace Snow and Bennie Joe Tomecek.

The formal designation and full title for this standard that was published in April 2020 is, “CSA C392:20 Testing of Three-Phase Squirrel Cage Motors During Refurbishment.” This is the second edition of the standard and supersedes the previous edition published in 2011. The standard focuses on the identification of those tests that help to determine whether the efficiency of a motor is maintained after it is “refurbished,” without requiring a motor efficiency test.

Robert “Bob” Gaddis, 70, of Hilton Head, South Carolina; and Roland Frank Harrison, 82, of Tuttle, Oklahoma.