Industry Highlights

A recent survey by Itron Inc. of 300 utility leaders and 500 customers revealed a growing amount of concern over utility preparedness due to the increasing frequency of severe weather.  [...]

A team of electrical engineers from Princeton University have developed a series of algorithms designed to prevent hackers from exploiting internet-connected devices to bring down the power [...]

FirstNet is a national broadband communication network developed by AT&T, in conjunction with the federal government, for first responders.  It was conceived in response to the 9/11 [...]

You are probably well aware that PG&E’s proactive power shutoffs (called “Public Safety Power Shutoffs” or PSPS) are a hot topic throughout the entire electric utility industry.  [...]

Wind farms have been touted as a means to help reduce the impact of climate change, but new research is emerging that shows wind farms can actually decrease the accuracy of weather [...]

Intelligent automation is a concept that is gaining traction within the utility industry as a means to improve reliability and resiliency.  But what exactly is it? Primer on Intelligent [...]

There have been various alert warning systems launched in the last couple of years – including Facebook emergency alerts and visual emergency alerts – but California emergency alerts [...]

Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida as a massive category 5 event about 1 year ago as of the time of this writing (10/1/18).  It was only the fourth hurricane ever to hit the US as a [...]

Space weather is a field of science that is concerned with, well, monitoring weather events originating from space.  This might sound hokey, but it’s important when you consider that a [...]

The Sept. 2019 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities illuminate the risk of a natural gas pipeline attack here in the US, according to FERC’s chairman, Neil Chatterjee. He believes that even a [...]