Industry Highlights

Image courtesy of Alan Kotok under Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Utility linemen (AKA lineworkers, but I’ll use the term linemen generically in this post) have a [...]

Image courtesy of Victoria Catterson under Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Power plant leak detection is not something that readily comes to mind when thinking about [...]

Image courtesy of Vattenfall under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 generic license, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. The Dept. of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on the [...]

Image courtesy of Gerry Machen under CC BY-ND 2.0 generic license, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. In a cruel twist of fate, it looks like California will be forced to increase its reliance on power [...]

Image courtesy of NAVFAC under Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0 Generic, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. A utility company’s safety protocols are only as good as the company’s overarching [...]

Image courtesy of Bill Smith under Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0 Generic, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. A new research paper published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of [...]

Image courtesy of Ed Uthman under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Florida Power & Light (FPL), the state’s largest utility company, has set a [...]

Image courtesy of Statkraft under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Why do wind power plants require a rethinking of outage [...]

Image courtesy of Ken Teegardin under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. A new power management system, formed via the integration of 2 [...]

Image courtesy of Greg Goebel under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. The Colorado electric utilities are gearing up for what is expected [...]