Industry Highlights

MonPower, a FirstEnergy company, is pursuing a unique approach to utility tree trimming and by extension, keeping the lights on – the company is using huge chainsaws attached to helicopters for [...]

Prolonged and heavy rain beginning July 2021 has been wreaking havoc on China’s Henan province, creating record-breaking flood conditions.  As of the time of this writing, there have been [...]

Starting August 2021, the National Weather Service (NWS) expanded its warning-alert technology to encompass severe thunderstorm alerts, in addition to its existing alerts for tornadoes and flash [...]

President Biden scored a nice win with the $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure deal passed in July 2021.  As you might imagine, the deal directly impacts the utility industry – particularly [...]

AES Ohio (formerly Dayton Power & Light), an operating company owned by AES Corporation, has partnered with Google’s research division to help determine the optimal approach for grid [...]

Connecticut is the eighth state to implement a law around the adoption of energy storage targets.  The other states are California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, and [...]

New Jersey-based Atlantic City Electric received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to move forward with a $212 million project to develop and expand its Smart Energy [...]

Earthquake drills are regularly practiced in Mexico, mainly because the country sits on one of the most seismically active regions on the entire planet.  In fact, the country has already [...]

The two non-municipal Connecticut electric utilities have been assessed millions of dollars in fines by the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) stemming from their response to [...]

You just know something is substantial if it comes with its own weather pattern!  Well, the Bootleg Fire that has been ravaging hundreds of miles of Oregon countryside is so large that it is [...]