Industry Highlights

Retiring nuclear power plants could accelerate climate change, according to a report commissioned by Nuclear Matters in response to the impending shutdown of 4 plants in PA and OH.  The reason is [...]

Workflow automation is the gold standard when it comes to the utility industry in general, and outage restoration in particular.  The term refers to the digitization of pre-defined and repeatable [...]

I was floored to learn that multiple gas and oil drilling companies in California have violated state regulations an average of 127 times each year since 2015!  These violations have encompassed [...]

A paper written by researchers at the University of South Florida was recently published that analyzed the impact of social connections on people’s decisions to evacuate when ordered to do [...]

At least 4 U.S. pipeline operators have recently been victimized by a cyber-attack – Oneok, Energy Transfer Partners, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, and Eastern Shore Natural Gas.  These reports [...]

The California PUC (Public Utilities’ Commission) has come down hard on the state’s electric utility companies due to perceived shortcomings with regard to their handling of the recent fire [...]

In March 2018, the Baltimore 911 dispatch system was shut down due to an apparent system hack.  This comes on the heels of recent cyber-attacks targeting U.S. pipeline operators, the electric [...]

Despite the tens of millions of dollars that have been poured into emergency communication system upgrades after 9/11, emergency radios are still – in many cases – unable to handle the spike in [...]

In March 2018, Scott Aaronson, the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) VP for security and emergency preparedness, spoke at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy hearing entitled DOE [...]

I read a fascinating article that discussed how social networks can help reduce fatalities during major disasters.  Simply put, community togetherness that spawns trust and comradery generally [...]