Industry Highlights

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 [...]

And then there were none.  Despite the massive power problems plaguing the state of California, PG&E has been continuing the decommissioning process, which started in 2016, for its Diablo [...]

The operator of Japan’s shuttered Fukushima nuclear power plant recently announced plans to build an “undersea tunnel” to carry treated water from the plant and into the ocean.  This intrigues me [...]

The U.S. electric utility industry is evolving at an increasingly fast pace, and electric coops (electric cooperatives) are not immune to the changes.  In fact, their challenges and opportunities [...]

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 [...]