Industry Highlights

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that from time to time I like to focus on disaster planning efforts in other industries. To this end, I recently came across an article on [...]

The Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council (ESCC) published the most recent version of its COVID-19 resource and mitigation guide for the power sector.  Version 8 of the “ESCC Resource [...]

When homes are built in flood prone areas, it goes against emergency preparedness principles.  Emergency preparedness is, by definition, designed to reduce the impact of an emergency situation, [...]

When it comes to renewable energy, distributed wind – e.g., smaller (1 kilowatt to 1 megawatt) turbines installed at schools, ranches, etc. – has been muscled out by solar power.  Some of the [...]

Oh boy.  As if the news wasn’t grim enough, a new analysis from the World Resources Institute (WRI) predicts that the number of people negatively impacted by flood events will double globally in [...]

Hurricane season is here, and has already started out strong, as scientists are predicting that 2020 could see a higher-than-average number of major hurricanes.  This is never great news, [...]

Everybody’s favorite punching bag in California, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), is yet again the subject of intense scrutiny over its vegetation work.  This time, it’s from the federal [...]

In April 2020, NERC released a report entitled, “Pandemic Preparedness and Operational Assessment: Spring 2020” in order to help guide the nation’s electric utilities during this rough time.  [...]

Drones have many potential applications for the electric utility industry, everything from routine overhead transmission line inspections to post-disaster damage assessment.  And now we can add [...]

Through a program called “Project Pele,” the Pentagon has awarded contracts to three companies to build nuclear microreactors, also known as micro-mobile nuclear reactors (yes, it’s a [...]