Industry Highlights

The days of labor-intensive underground excavation for utilities might one day become a thing of the past.  And it is all because of advancements in robotics. The world of robotics is evolving [...]

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a joint report indicating that since May 2017, nuclear power plant hacking has been on the rise.  At this point, the FBI says that [...]

All electric utilities must have an effective way to conduct transmission line inspections.  The greater the efficiency of the inspection process, the greater the level of reliability.  This is [...]

It is no secret that wearable technology is all the rage these days.  From the Apple Watch to Fitbit, millions of people worldwide are tethered to their wearables.  In fact, Global Industry [...]

Ham radio operators are critical when it comes to emergency or outage restoration, because they can be online even when every other communication channel is compromised.  For this reason, many [...]

I remember it well.  It was December 2016, and in the blink of an eye much of the Ukraine power grid shut down.  Now after months and months of cyber detective work, the specific malware has been [...]

I recently read an article regarding vegetation control that really irked me.  Everybody’s favorite regulatory body, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC), decided it would be a good [...]

Investing in water infrastructure is a critical need right now, because our country’s aging water infrastructure is a real problem.  We are faced with dam breaches, weekly water main breaks, [...]

The U.S. natural gas infrastructure seems to be vulnerable to leakage on multiple fronts.  The most recent evidence: A new study suggests that a whopping 20% of active underground natural gas [...]

There are a lot of old nukes dotting the US electricity generation landscape, a situation that is problematic due to the fact that the US nuclear industry is slowly dying.  Tight regulations, [...]