Industry Highlights

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has developed a new disaster prediction tool – the All Hazards Analysis (AHA) software – which is designed to enhance emergency preparedness by helping [...]

Fuel cells could be a useful tool when it comes to emergency preparedness, as they hold promise for electric utilities when it comes to improving reliability and resiliency.  And anything that [...]

This story is straight out of a Sci-Fi movie!  Scientists are utilizing large swarms of robots, programmed to operate cooperatively and communally, to study how they interact and move.  [...]

Professors at the University of Georgia and University of Arkansas, along with other industry and academic experts, are working on methods to improve solar energy cybersecurity processes and [...]

Water vapor in the atmosphere could represent a new source of renewable energy, according to a study just published by researchers at Tel Aviv University.  The science behind this is similar to [...]

The ways in which virtual power plants (VPPs) are being utilized in the utility industry are rapidly evolving, and will likely continue to do so thanks to the increased emphasis being placed on [...]

Power line management is obviously an important facet of electric utility operations, and this has certainly not gotten any easier during the coronavirus outbreak.  Between social distancing [...]

A 911 service outage wreaked havoc across much of the U.S. on June 15, 2020.  The root cause of the interruption was a network outage that occurred over much of the T-Mobile wireless [...]

It seems more and more states are considering a natural gas phaseout.  First it was California, then it was New York, and now Massachusetts is looking to follow suit.  In June 2020, the [...]

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published a whitepaper contemplating the payment of transmission incentives to electric utilities that make smart, proactive grid [...]