Industry Highlights

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 [...]

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 [...]