Industry Highlights

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 [...]

The European Space Agency is making tremendous strides in the realm of utilizing satellite technology to predict the nature and severity of storms.  The program, called “Destination Earth” aims [...]

Nuclear batteries could very well be the saving grace for electric utilities interested in boosting reliability and generation efficiency.  The reason is that they can help utilities move toward [...]

I’m not a gamer, but I absolutely love this idea nonetheless.  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is aiming to bring its Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) [...]

The momentum is growing when it comes to the adoption of performance-based regulation (PBR) in the electric utility industry.  In fact, in Dec. 2019, Hawaiian Electric (HECO) announced that it [...]

One difference (of many) between the Biden administration and the Trump administration is Biden’s focus on climate change and, similarly, efforts to harden systems and improve storm protection.  [...]

A conglomerate consisting of multiple regulatory bodies has released a final report on the root cause of the August 2020 rolling blackouts in California.  Although the results of the root cause [...]

Wow, I just had to write a quick blog post about an article I just read about Bill Gates and his financing of a sun-dimming technology designed to reverse climate change by reflecting sunlight [...]