Industry Highlights

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 [...]

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 [...]