Industry Highlights

I recently read a Harvard Business Review article focused on the “smart talk trap.”  It struck a chord with me as I read it, mainly because I have had the misfortune of dealing with this behavior [...]

Like many things in life and business, underground power lines have both pros and cons.  It is definitely true that undergrounding can improve service reliability, but the cost is prohibitive.  [...]

Simply put, blockchain is a ledger network technology and data structure that allows people to make highly secure electronic cash transactions with one another, without the need for a central [...]

Coal-fired power plants produce tens of millions of tons of toxic ash each and every year as a byproduct of their electric generation operations, and much of this waste ends up mixed with water [...]

Ever since Hurricane Sandy, many east coast states have been pushing the development of hurricane resistant buildings – structures hardened by elements such as reinforced concrete, steel-strapped [...]

The frequency of large dust storms is increasing in several parts of the world.  Here in the U.S., dust storms have been on the rise for at least the past 20 years in the southwest, and are also [...]

Nuclear waste disposal has been a thorn in the side of the NRC for decades, but a new technique that takes advantage of drilling advancements in the fracking industry should allow the waste to be [...]

Gas flaring, a byproduct of oil drilling, impacts climate change as much as a typical major economy such as Italy.  According to a recent report from the World Bank, an incredible $50 billion [...]

For electric utilities, inspecting power lines is critical.  The inspections serve many purposes, from safety to reliability, and they help optimize utility tree trimming activities and other [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data on outage frequency and duration from electric utilities, for every outage that lasts more than five minutes, and releases a report [...]