Industry Highlights

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 [...]

Utilizing helicopters to install, maintain and repair electrical infrastructure is more common than you might think. This kind of work is typically done by climbing poles or utilizing bucket [...]

In November 2021, almost 60% of voters in Maine voted to stop construction on the New England Clean Energy Connect, a 145-mile high-voltage transmission corridor being developed by Central Maine [...]

The recent passing into law of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a huge win for utility companies, especially those in the water and electricity sectors.  All told, [...]