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Electricians can provide specific advice on the basis of the system being protected and the needs of the consumer, and they can also perform installation and maintenance on a backup power system. Some reasons to invest in backup power include: being a business which wants to stay open during outages; using electronic medical devices; working on computers and wanting to avoid data loss; or simply wanting to enjoy the convenience of electrical power even when the grid is down.

The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has decided it wants to revise downward the price it is prepared to pay for new grid-tied ground-based micro electricity generation, opening negotiations with a new suggested price of 58.8 cents per kWh.

In a press release issued on July 2, 2010, Colin Anderson, CEO of the OPA is quoted as saying "The OPA believes the new price category is fair, reasonable, more accurately reflects the costs associated with ground-mounted projects and maintains the long-term stability of the program. It enables the program to continue to meet its original goals and provides proper value to both generators and ratepayers."

The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has decided it wants to revise downward the price it is prepared to pay for new grid-tied ground-based micro electricity generation, opening negotiations with a new suggested price of 58.8 cents per kWh.

In a press release issued on July 2, 2010, Colin Anderson, CEO of the OPA is quoted as saying "The OPA believes the new price category is fair, reasonable, more accurately reflects the costs associated with ground-mounted projects and maintains the long-term stability of the program. It enables the program to continue to meet its original goals and provides proper value to both generators and ratepayers."

Electricity is all around us. It lifts elevators, pumps gas, lights rooms, cooks food, and even powers a growing fleet of cars. We generally take the vast electric grid for granted until it turns off. Only then do we realize how important it is. Blackouts owing to technical foul-ups are bad enough, but new hazards, some malicious and some from nature, threaten to create electrical disturbances on an unprecedented scale.

New legislation, passed June 9 by the U.S. House of Representatives and referred to the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources committee, hopes to strengthen the grid’s robustness against attacks of many kinds. The immediate aim of the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act is to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the main federal agency responsible for electricity matters, to establish security rules for utilities and other energy companies.