Industry Highlights

Image courtesy of BLMIdaho under Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. The 2024 Panhandle fire that ripped through Texas in Feb. 2024 was caused by a decayed power pole.  [...]

Image courtesy of Open Grid Scheduler under CC0 1.0 Universal License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. More and more utilities are implementing private LTE networks to replace or augment the [...]

Image courtesy of Niccolò Ubalducci under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. The U.S. has suffered through a lot of tornado activity so far in [...]

Image courtesy of Ervins Strauhmanis under Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. New research suggests that reconductoring – that is, replacing traditional transmission [...]

Image courtesy of FirstEnergy under Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Detroit-based DTE Energy is utilizing so-called smart devices to monitor power lines and [...]

Image courtesy of Scott Butner under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. As you probably know, the transmission permitting process in the U.S. is [...]

Image courtesy of Jon Pinder under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on 4/25/24 a [...]

Image courtesy of Carla Wosniak under Attribution 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Recent research from the University of Pennsylvania paints a grim view of the future of grid [...]

Image courtesy of Michael Kappel under Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. Across the electric utility industry, grid hardening is more important than ever [...]

Image courtesy of Admitter under Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License, resized to 700 x 391 pixels. I recently stumbled onto an article written by Robert Bryce that paints a bleak visual [...]