EPP Blog

Do you know anybody who wakes up in the morning saying, “I really hope I make a mistake today so I can learn something”?  Well, me neither, but perhaps more people should adopt this mindset [...]

Ahh Suburbia! Quiet tree-lined streets. Shady lanes and byways. Scenes of old time small towns reminiscent of Norman Rockwell paintings. People love their trees, a fact well known to utility [...]

At most of the emergency drills we do, one of the most passionate people in the Incident Command room is usually the Safety person. That’s to be expected. The Safety team is entrusted with [...]

With all the recent news about cybersecurity breaches (or is it ‘cyber security’?), we thought it might be a good idea to share a few thoughts about how we’re using, or [...]

Think the idea of threat analysis is hyperbole?  If so, consider this brainteaser: What do Freedom Industries, Target, Neiman Marcus and Chris Christie have in common? No, this isn’t one of [...]

We recently administered an emergency restoration exercise for a utility client and thought it might be good to share some of the situations and results with our readers. The client is a utility [...]

A utility executive friend of ours said something that shocked us the other day. This is an upper level management type – you know, private office, personal secretary, reports directly to the [...]

Take a moment to consider how things are going in the outage restoration business. Population continues to shift toward areas prone to flooding, wild fires and intense storms. In many areas, the [...]

There are at least three different ways to look at utility regulators.  You can view them as allies and partners who make it possible for a utility to function successfully as a regulated [...]

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of time and space but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s [...]