Industry Highlights

A new satellite constellation is being developed by a China-based company that aims to dramatically increase the number of observational data points that can be collected during disaster events.  [...]

President Biden wants to take action on climate change by increasing solar power by a whopping 1,000%.  The reason for the focus on solar power is because a Sept. 2021 Energy Dept. report showed [...]

The wildfire situation in the western U.S. is obviously extremely problematic, but thanks to something called RADRFIRE, improvements are on the horizon.  RADRFIRE, or Rapid Analytics for Disaster [...]

It is now painfully obvious that New York City was not built for 21st-century storms.  Case in point: on September 1, 2021, as much as 10 inches of rain pounded some areas of NYC.  Hundreds of [...]

Energy transition may sound like a utility buzzword, but it’s definitely a real phenomenon.  It might not exactly be “the end of the grid as we know it” (shoutout to R.E.M.), but there is little [...]

Imagine an internet outage lasting for months.  According to a new research paper, this is exactly what might occur if a large solar storm battered our planet.  The good news is that the [...]

Hurricane Ida and its 150 MPH winds ripped through southeastern Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021.  The result was largescale damage to structures, streets, and utility poles.  The big question is, how [...]

When it comes to the power supply, California could use all the supply-side help it can get, which is why plans are in the works to add five new gas-fired units at existing power plants within [...]

Like any piece of equipment, power distribution systems can degrade over time thanks to normal wear and tear, and therefore require ongoing maintenance to maintain optimum performance.  [...]

A report recently published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), in conjunction with insurance provider Intangic, estimates that it could cost more for U.S. utility companies to [...]