Industry Highlights

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 [...]

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 [...]