Industry Highlights

Rising sea levels might lead to the worst disaster scenario ever seen in the utility industry, mainly because it’s a scenario that could wipe out thousands of miles of land, making it completely [...]

It goes without saying that emergency preparedness is my sweet spot, but a related topic is the notion of PR crisis planning.  Public relations has always been an important part of utility [...]

We don’t talk too much about hailstorm events on this blog, but perhaps we should – apparently hailstorms are the most expensive storm hazard for the insurance industry, with damages from a [...]

I’ve written about microgrids multiple times in the past, but now a new variation has been introduced – the nanogrid.  Both have similarities and differences, yet both can be used to provide a [...]

The number of U.S. residents that have spent time in emergency housing during the first 9 months of 2020 is greater than in any year since 2010.  And given that the western wildfire season [...]

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) is pursuing an “islanding” strategy to help reduce the customer impact of its rolling / panned blackouts (purposeful shut downs of sections of the grid [...]

Rural coops, also known as rural electric cooperatives or power cooperatives, sometimes get a bad rap.  But this is objectively unfair, as they tend to have fewer resources compared to large [...]

Developing offshore wind projects is not California’s priority right now, but perhaps it should be, because this could potentially help ease some of the challenges that the state is currently [...]

I just read a fantastic article about the benefits of using adaptive SOPs (standard operating procedures), instead of predictive SOPs, during emergency situations.  Adaptive SOPs, as you can [...]

Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) just launched a new online tool to help customers track rotating power outages and planned blackouts that are triggered by heatwave activity.  It’s a [...]