Industry Highlights

More and more electric utilities are contracting with companies that specialize in storm assessment services in order to provide a lifeline when outage restoration efforts overwhelm internal [...]

The energy landscape is clearly evolving, but most of the country’s aging substations have remained relatively unchanged.  This is a problem because substations serve as hubs that connect supply [...]

Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is the “gift” that keeps on giving – experts predict the Fukushima cleanup will take at least another 30 years to complete.  And this is despite the fact [...]

The expansion of smart meters, or advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), is ramping up.  As such, there seems to be a number of smart meter trends vying for attention.  What follows is an [...]

Can studying the behavior of sea mussels really help optimize wind farm engineering solutions?  According to researchers at Nottingham University in the U.K., the answer is a resounding yes! How [...]

My friends at Energy Central published an interesting article on the virtues of so-called “macrogrids.”  It’s essentially a concept that deploys technologies and processes designed to improve [...]

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, [...]