Industry Highlights

Accident tolerant fuels are all the rage, and in fact are now being utilized at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois.  This emerging type of fuel features an improved tolerance toward [...]

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its annual report, called the World Energy Outlook 2019, and it illuminates several interesting insights for electric utilities.  In [...]

There were various Puerto Rico microgrids setup after Hurricane Maria, and they have been an absolute blessing for an island that simply can’t catch a break.  On January 7, 2020, a [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you are no doubt keenly aware of Australia’s shocking bushfire emergency.  But scientists are conflicted about the underlying [...]

It’s no secret that the California electric utilities are scrambling to find solutions to the state’s growing forest fire problem.  Despite some immediate repercussions such as the PG&E [...]

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced in November 2019 the allocation of $80 million over the next 3 years to cover the implementation of 23 grid modernization projects.  The announcement was [...]

Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in Sept. 2018, highlighted the importance of effective storm communications.  For some parts of North Carolina, the impact of the hurricane turned out [...]

Emergency alerts and disaster warnings have improved over the years, but there is still a huge opportunity to improve the technology even further.  The good news is that multiple federal [...]

I recently stumbled onto a great overview of how high-performance overhead conductors can boost the overall reliability of the grid, and although I’ve never previously delved into the wonderful [...]

NERC recently painted a bleak picture of how changes in the U.S. bulk power system could reduce the long-term reliability of the grid, especially in Texas, which is expected to experience supply [...]