Industry Highlights

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, [...]

The devastating coronavirus crisis is on everybody’s minds, including the leadership of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which recently sent out a questionnaire to its [...]

Efforts across the globe to combat climate change have resulted in a push for renewable energy sources, but when it comes to wind energy there is one nagging problem – recycling wind turbine [...]

Electric utility decentralization is coming whether we like it or not.  Microgrids and other forms of distributed energy resources (DERs) are already growing in prominence and are predicted to [...]

Legacy thinking is problematic in the utility industry.  In essence, this refers to a resistance to change.  Although it’s human nature to dislike change, the industry – in fact, the world – is [...]

Satellite imagery is a critical element of emergency preparedness, as it can help predict when and where large natural disasters will occur.  This is crucial, because the frequency and severity [...]

I talk a lot about emergency preparedness on this blog, but I have never delved specifically into the world of dam emergency planning.  However, I just read an article that described how most [...]