Industry Highlights

California-based PG&E has requested a rate increase in its continuing efforts to shore up its grid and improve customer reliability.  As you likely know, California and PG&E’s service [...]

As of April 1, 2022, the Sierra snowpack, the source of 30% of California’s water supply, was at its lowest point in 70 years.  Based on data from localized sensor readings, the snow levels in [...]

Red Flag Warnings are used to alert people whenever hot temperatures, low humidity and high winds conspire to create a higher-than-average wildfire risk.  There are a variety of tools that [...]

Maintaining efficient and effective utility field service management practices is easier said than done.  This is because the process involves many components and variables – crew logistics, [...]

Image courtesy of Christoph Scholz courtesy of Flickr under creative commons license, resized to 700×391 pixels. You’ve no doubt heard of 5G – the fifth generation of mobile networking [...]

A state-of-the-art overhead fault monitoring device rolled out by Chicago-based S&C Electric looks like a great solution for mitigating nuisance power outages for customers located on the [...]

I’ve seen a lot in my emergency preparedness career, but a power outage caused by someone scaling an electrical tower is a new one!  I mean, I obviously realize that nasty weather is not the only [...]

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) recently released, in conjunction with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC), a draft of [...]

In February 2022, three white supremacists plead guilty to a domestic terrorism plot that was designed to take down the U.S. power grid.  It was a disgusting act and really reinforces the reality [...]

California-based Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) plans to utilize methane leak detection technology to analyze 1.2 million service lines, gas meters and pipelines across its service [...]