Industry Highlights

Why do good emergency communications matter?  Because it doesn’t matter whether it’s an electric utility, water utility, natural gas utility, or cell phone provider, service interruptions [...]

Like many utilities in the southeast, Georgia Power relies on staging areas and had its hands full with Hurricane Matthew, and much of this effort was chronicled in an article run in the Savannah [...]

Climate change is a hugely important topic from an emergency preparedness standpoint, mainly because it correlates with an increase in severe weather and, subsequently, outages.  I’ve previously [...]

NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) published an interesting article entitled “Grid Resilience – Come Hell or High Water” in the Sept. 2016 issue of the organization’s [...]

I typically think about emergency response from the perspective of the utility industry, but there are many other angles we can consider.  One such angle involves the role of HADR (Humanitarian [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz about drones in the last couple of years, ever since Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ famously laid out his case for drone deliveries on 60 Minutes back in 2013.  But now there’s a [...]

As I’ve written about previously, global warming is of extreme importance to utilities because the phenomenon has increased the intensity of storm activity which, of course, has led to a higher [...]

Every state regulatory commission always seems to have its hands full, and this year is certainly no exception.  Recently one of my favorite online publications – Utility Dive – came up with a [...]

This is a new one to me. Recently hundreds of people in the Victoria and Melbourne areas of Australia fell ill to what is being termed as thunderstorm asthma. Ambulance services were hit with [...]

The Flint water crisis, which involved the poisoning of the local municipal water supply with lead that left residents unable to drink their tap water for over a year and likely caused the [...]