Industry Highlights

Earthquakes, massive forest fires, and now megadroughts?  Wow, utilities in the western U.S. clearly have more than their fair share of challenges.  As if this isn’t bad enough, political [...]

Electric utility customers need to prepare themselves for a rough summer in terms of electric reliability, thanks to the extreme heat that is expected to pound the nation in 2021 and beyond.  [...]

It’s no secret that pipe rehabilitation is top of mind for water utilities, especially whenever a utility experiences multiple water main breaks in a short period of time that can lead to flooded [...]

You have no doubt heard about – and maybe even felt the impact of – the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack.  It cost the pipeline operator millions of dollars in ransom payments and picked the [...]

The electric cooperatives operating in Texas held up nicely against Winter Storm Uri, which hit in February 2021 and caused nearly 4.5 million customers to lose power (nearly 70% of the state’s [...]

More than 2 billion pounds of toxic sewage sludge, a byproduct of wastewater treatment, makes its way into landfills every year in the U.S. alone, polluting waterways as well as the atmosphere.  [...]

Although it’s one of the cleanest energy sources around, there is a faction of society that remains steadfastly anti-nuclear.  And, right or wrong, the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters are [...]

SAP, along with cloud consulting firm Onapsis, recently issued a warning regarding a vulnerability in unpatched SAP systems that run enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.  The sad part [...]

By now all of us are highly accustomed to wireless technology as it relates to small devices like laptops and smart phones, but new developments are bringing the technology to larger scale [...]

New research published by the National Library of Medicine (of all places) cites heat wave blackouts as perhaps the deadliest outcome of climate change going forward.  The study paints a picture [...]