Industry Highlights

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 [...]

The 1918 pandemic was absolutely horrific, leading to more deaths than the first two world wars combined.  It was an influenza outbreak that may have originated right here in the U.S., and there [...]

I just read an article in TD World that discussed a uniquely-Californian weather phenomenon called “sundowners” that I hadn’t previously come across.  Talk about a downer (I know, pretty weak [...]

In August 2020, Tropical Storm Isaias rocked the state of New Jersey, causing over 1.4 million residents to lose power and hundreds of thousands to lose cable and internet services.  This has [...]

I’m writing this in early Sept. 2020, and already we’ve had 3 hurricanes and tropical storms make landfall in the U.S. – Hurricane Laura, Hanna, and Isaias.  There’s no doubt about it, the [...]