Industry Highlights

A new report from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, funded by the DOE’s Office of Electricity, indicates that calculations to determine [...]

I just read an interesting article from the Seattle Times that discussed how “landfill gas” – i.e., converting landfill methane into renewable natural gas – is becoming a political football in [...]

After the Feb. 2021 ice disaster in Texas and the resulting fallout on ERCOT, a lot of scrutiny has been given to the notion of wind turbine winterization.  Although cold-weather issues with the [...]

Recent emergencies in Texas and elsewhere have fostered an avalanche of outage misinformation on social media.  In many cases the information is low quality at best or flat-out wrong at worst, [...]

Remote technology is something that all power plant operators should be looking into at this point, even if there are no plans to ever engage in remote operation.  Significant technological [...]

Hydroelectric infrastructure accounts for nearly 100% of the electricity in Quebec, Canada, yet a new $600 million wind energy project is likely to make this infrastructure even more valuable.  [...]

If you’re anything like me, you probably have “COVID-fatigue” right about now, but it’s important to take a step back and analyze what the best post-COVID strategies might look like for not only [...]

California-based PG&E submitted on 2/5/21 its 2021 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) under the direction of the Wildfire Safety Division of the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC).  The [...]

February 2021 will not be remembered fondly in Texas.  There is no other way to put it – the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which was formed about 50 years ago, lost control of [...]

An attempted water treatment hack at the Oldsmar treatment facility near Tampa, Florida could have been disastrous if not for the alertness of one of the plant’s employees.  When someone accessed [...]