Industry Highlights

Ever since Hurricane Sandy, many east coast states have been pushing the development of hurricane resistant buildings – structures hardened by elements such as reinforced concrete, steel-strapped [...]

The frequency of large dust storms is increasing in several parts of the world.  Here in the U.S., dust storms have been on the rise for at least the past 20 years in the southwest, and are also [...]

Nuclear waste disposal has been a thorn in the side of the NRC for decades, but a new technique that takes advantage of drilling advancements in the fracking industry should allow the waste to be [...]

Gas flaring, a byproduct of oil drilling, impacts climate change as much as a typical major economy such as Italy.  According to a recent report from the World Bank, an incredible $50 billion [...]

For electric utilities, inspecting power lines is critical.  The inspections serve many purposes, from safety to reliability, and they help optimize utility tree trimming activities and other [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data on outage frequency and duration from electric utilities, for every outage that lasts more than five minutes, and releases a report [...]

Industroyer was the malware responsible for taking the Ukraine electrical grid offline for approximately one hour in 2016.  I have written about cybersecurity and system hacking previously, but [...]

Utility public relations efforts are often overly-simplistic in their approach.  Some utilities seem to have a “build it and they will come” attitude, but alas, it’s not that simple.  Like [...]

As of the time of this post (May 11, 2018), Hawaii’s Big Island is continuing to get hammered by a relentless onslaught of earthquakes and lava from Kilauea, the most active volcano on the [...]

The topic of wind energy might seem out of place for this blog, but as an emergency preparedness enthusiast, I closely monitor trends around both climate change and renewable energy sources – the [...]