Industry Highlights

Water utilities utilize a plethora of devices that transmit real-time data online via Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity, such as remote flow sensors that transmit information to the operations [...]

Most people associate climate change with an increase in hurricane severity. But that’s not the only impact. Some scientists believe global warming is also leading to an increase in earthquake [...]

Five electric utilities (Southern Co., Louisville Gas and Electric Co., Kentucky Utilities Co., PP&L and the Tennessee Valley Authority) just announced the formation of the Regional Equipment [...]

I recently read an article describing an initiative deployed by the British Columbia government, wherein each of its senior officials was supplied with a satellite phone in case conventional [...]

So-called microgrids could be the key to improving electric reliability. It’s a concept that has been gaining traction in the last few years thanks to the ever-increasing frequency of major storm [...]

A recent scenario disaster drill involving a megaquake prompts the State of Washington to declare its emergency response plans grossly inadequate. A massive 4-day drill involving 23,000 [...]

Natural gas and electricity go hand-in-hand, a fact that is becoming worrisome in areas where the supply of natural gas is limited. For example, in California the Aliso Canyon leak caused a gas [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about the recent massive internet outage that brought huge sites like Twitter and Reddit to a screeching halt. And as you likely [...]

Hurricane Matthew was obviously a whopper of a storm. Up to 1,000 people in Haiti lost their lives because of it, and 1.5 million people were ordered to evacuate the coastal areas in Florida as [...]

I spend a lot of time talking about emergency preparedness for electric and gas utilities, but the same concepts also apply to hazardous spills in sectors of energy such as oil and petroleum.  In [...]