Industry Highlights

Rural electric cooperatives that own infrastructure across 21 states have landed some much-needed financing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for infrastructure improvements.  [...]

Black & Veatch just published a very interesting survey entitled Strategic Directions: Water Report.  The survey, which involved 300 leaders in the water industry, reveals that industry [...]

The U.S. EPA has released a new ‘financial impact tool’ that water utilities can leverage to assess the cost and revenue impacts of COVID-19 on operations.  While the pandemic has not [...]

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has developed a new disaster prediction tool – the All Hazards Analysis (AHA) software – which is designed to enhance emergency preparedness by helping [...]

Fuel cells could be a useful tool when it comes to emergency preparedness, as they hold promise for electric utilities when it comes to improving reliability and resiliency.  And anything that [...]

This story is straight out of a Sci-Fi movie!  Scientists are utilizing large swarms of robots, programmed to operate cooperatively and communally, to study how they interact and move.  [...]

Professors at the University of Georgia and University of Arkansas, along with other industry and academic experts, are working on methods to improve solar energy cybersecurity processes and [...]

Water vapor in the atmosphere could represent a new source of renewable energy, according to a study just published by researchers at Tel Aviv University.  The science behind this is similar to [...]

The ways in which virtual power plants (VPPs) are being utilized in the utility industry are rapidly evolving, and will likely continue to do so thanks to the increased emphasis being placed on [...]

Power line management is obviously an important facet of electric utility operations, and this has certainly not gotten any easier during the coronavirus outbreak.  Between social distancing [...]