Industry Highlights

We all know that the U.S. power grid is akin to a fixer upper in the real estate market.  It was built in the 19th century to accommodate a dramatically lower level of demand, not to mention a [...]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is keenly interested in the benefits of virtualization and cloud services to help modernize the nation’s bulk power system and improve its [...]

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has teamed up with the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) to promote better emergency preparedness coordination across the wireless and [...]

A natural gas ransomware attack that occurred in February 2020 offers some critical insights that electric utilities can leverage to reduce the odds of being victimized by a similar attack.  [...]

An emerging technology that can create self-powered sensors looks promising in terms of helping utilities reduce the frequency of power outages.  In a nutshell, the technology can be used by [...]

There is an emerging technology called 4D printing that could potentially be used to improve the reliability of oil and natural gas pipelines.  This, in turn, could be a boon to power plants [...]

There is a major push from a variety of sources for wider adoption of distributed energy resources (DER), and electric utilities will need to figure out how to manage this transition.  [...]

I recently learned that the water chemistry in steam power plants is critical to optimizing their reliability.  Steam power plants, especially those fueled by oil, coal, natural gas, and in the [...]

It’s always a good idea to learn about trends and best practices from other factions in the emergency preparedness universe, which is why I was intrigued when I stumbled upon an article that [...]

Forbes recently published an article that highlighted 50 years’ worth of hurricane landfall data, and the resulting picture is anything but pretty.  Hurricanes (called tropical cyclones in [...]