Industry Highlights

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in recent months, you are painfully aware of the pandemic-driven supply chain disruptions currently plaguing the world (no pun intended).  In the [...]

Things are looking dire for iconic hydropower plants in the western part of the U.S. like the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam.  The entire area has been suffering through a “megadrought” which has [...]

It’s no secret that the development of microgrids is a growing trend, especially in places like California.  At a recent conference called “Microgrid California,” various microgrid operators [...]

Fiber optics have been used within the electric utility industry for decades.  In fact, electric utilities were early adopters of the technology – even before telephone companies.  Thanks to this [...]

Various U.S. government agencies believe that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict disasters.  Generally speaking, most school of thought around this concept applies to war and [...]

Not to be an alarmist or anything, but there have been some really strange climate-fueled disasters occurring over the last few years or so.  In fact, I just stumbled onto a list of 10 of the [...]

New Jersey-based Public Service Enterprise Group (PSE&G) wants to spend up to $900 million to upgrade its “last mile” infrastructure, as well as to expand its electric vehicle (EV) [...]

Could mandatory power plant winterization requirements be on the horizon?  According to a joint report authored by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric [...]

It’s no secret that the electric utilities as well as the homeowners in California have it rough when it comes to power outages, but a recent agreement between the 211 California Network and the [...]

National Grid has gone off the deep end.  Okay, so maybe not quite.  But the company has successfully constructed a tunnel underneath the Buffalo River to “modernize and improve” its electricity [...]