Industry Highlights

The idea of IoT sensor standards seems like a no-brainer.  Not only are self-powered sensors being increasingly deployed within the context of utility operations, but they are also prominently [...]

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the impact of weather disasters in the U.S. hit a new apex in 2021.  Hundreds of lives, and billions of dollars, were lost [...]

An event that scientists are calling an “earthquake swarm” pounded the Oregon coast in December 2021.  All told, a whopping 40 quakes were recorded in less than 24 hours along the Blanco Fracture [...]

Packetized energy management (PEM) could be the solution to balancing supply and demand across the grid.  And this is important because it will likely be more difficult as time goes on to achieve [...]

Six cancer patients have filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), claiming the Fukushima radiation that was leaked during the 2011 nuclear disaster caused their cancer [...]

Here’s another potential emergency planning “gotcha” for utilities to be aware of – lawsuits.  Case in point, during the first week of January 2022, 131 insurance companies filed a lawsuit [...]

According to the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), maintaining grid reliability will become increasingly challenging over the next 10 years.  The findings were outlined in NERC’s [...]

California-based PG&E has proposed a 1,600 MW energy storage plan to California regulators.  The proposal applies to 9 projects across California that are expected to come online between 2023 [...]

I recently stumbled onto an interesting article published by Power Grid International that touts the virtues of a so-called “smart antenna strategy” for electric utilities. I’ve never heard this [...]

What’s better, overground or underground power lines? That’s the question I’m posing today, and like many things in life, the answer is not particularly straight-forward. Both undergrounding and [...]