Industry Highlights

Emergency management experts like Francisco Sanchez, spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, are starting to raise the banner for customized [...]

I have said it time and time again – it does not matter if you are an electric or gas utility, or even a wastewater treatment plant.  In the utility industry, proper employee training is the key [...]

I recently read an article about missile attack preparedness, and it makes me think that the notion of conducting a missile attack drill isn’t as off-the-wall as it might seem on the surface. [...]

One of the things that keeps me up at night is the reliability of the grid.  There are multiple factors that seem to be leading to the decline of electric grid reliability in the U.S., and this [...]

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 [...]