Industry Highlights

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 [...]

PG&E announced in March 2020 that it has pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2018 Camp Fire catastrophe, which completely leveled two towns and damaged a handful of [...]

The Florida Department of Emergency Management has spent $1.2 million to add a whopping 5,141 new hurricane shelter spaces in schools throughout the state.  These projects were financed by [...]

Unlike other types of power plants, when it comes to nukes, nuclear refueling outages are critical.  According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), nuclear plants require a fresh batch of fuel [...]

Relief shelters have traditionally been thought of as safe havens for displaced natural disaster victims, but thanks to COVID-19, these locations, which are typically setup in schools, churches, [...]