EPP Blog

Like oil and water, ice and power reliability do not mix.  Even as little as a quarter-inch of ice accumulation can cause widespread power outages (not to mention, general mayhem).  For example, [...]

For years we’ve been hearing ad nauseam about climate change and how our planet’s weather cycles are becoming more and more severe over time.  Couple this reality with constantly-increasing [...]

Back in the 1980s, my father had a car phone, and yes, he thought he was cool.  If you’ve never seen one of these, it’s literally a corded phone in your car typically attached to the center [...]

Pardon the generalization, but communication is everything.  Good communication can make or break a business, relationship, career, reputation, and pretty much anything else you can imagine.  [...]

We all need a helping hand sometimes, and utility companies are certainly no exception. No matter how well prepared your company is when it comes to responding to outages, it’s a whole new [...]

Hurricane Sandy (unofficially known as “Superstorm Sandy”) made landfall on New Jersey on October 29, 2012. The impact on my home state was devastating – 2.4 million outages, [...]

Imagine you wake up one morning with no recollection of how to get ready for work.  What would you do first? What would you do…period?  Now, imagine waking up like this every day, and every [...]

Workplace violence can happen anytime, anywhere.  In September 2014 alone we saw a rash of extreme incidents including the beheading at Vaughan Foods in Oklahoma, the fire set to an air traffic [...]

One key trend that has emerged over the past 10 years stands out above all others in the context of its impact on the utility industry – in the past decade, weather-related blackouts have doubled [...]

You’ve heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory, right? You know, the theory that utilizes a pyramid structure to show the progression of human needs (physiological, safety, [...]