Industry Highlights

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 [...]

Today’s post can best be viewed as a cautionary tale.  A May 2021 explosion at the Calpine-owned Hayward Power Plant, a natural gas-plant that can supply electricity to 600,000 homes, could have [...]

Today I thought I’d go back to the basics and talk about the differences and similarities between business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR).  I’m certain there is much confusion and [...]

As of the time of this writing (July 2021), an eye-popping one-third of the state of California is now categorized as suffering “exceptional drought,” which is the highest and most intense [...]

When it comes to animal-caused power outages, things can get a little weird.  Although storms get most of the press when it comes to outages, animals like squirrels, birds and racoons literally [...]

The so-called hydrogen economy could unleash a plethora of benefits for electric utilities of all shapes and sizes.  Hydrogen, which can help reduce carbon emissions, can already be transported [...]

I just read an interesting article about how transactive energy might be the golden ticket for improving power grid resilience.  The concept is currently being studied by researchers at Pacific [...]

California-based PG&E has built the first-ever standalone power system (SPS) designed to help mitigate the threat of forest fires and other natural disasters on the company’s electric [...]