Industry Highlights

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 [...]

Decarbonization is one of the hot utility buzzwords these days, and as usual California is at the forefront of the movement.  Simply put, it refers to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) [...]

The year 2020 will likely be regarded in the annals of history as the year of the coronavirus, but ironically, a CDC drill conducted just 9 months prior to the outbreak foreshadowed the problems [...]

Scientists from Colorado State University are predicting an above-average number of major hurricanes in 2020.  All told, the researchers have forecast that we will see 16 large storms, eight of [...]