Industry Highlights

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 [...]

In late September 2016, a sweeping power outage hit South Australia state, which has 1.7 million residents, caused by tornadoes, thunderstorms and strong winds.  Interestingly, despite the harsh [...]

More and more industry pundits and decision-makers are starting to focus on the so-called death print.  The costs to produce energy are typically framed in terms of the quantifiable dollars [...]

Emergency drills and exercises are not just the domain of utility companies.  A recent example was a week-long emergency exercise conducted by the Rockland Fire Department that involved a [...]

The overall utility workforce is aging, and this represents a huge challenge across the entire industry.  The aging workforce means that more and more people will be retiring in the near [...]

Ameren Missouri, which provides electricity to 1.2 million customers, is getting serious about making a substantial investment in improving its transmission and distribution infrastructure.  The [...]

I just read an interesting article that compared the first presidential debate to the process of being prepared for an emergency.  To quickly recap, everyone with eyes could see that Hillary was [...]