Industry Highlights

A natural gas ransomware attack that occurred in February 2020 offers some critical insights that electric utilities can leverage to reduce the odds of being victimized by a similar attack.  [...]

An emerging technology that can create self-powered sensors looks promising in terms of helping utilities reduce the frequency of power outages.  In a nutshell, the technology can be used by [...]

There is an emerging technology called 4D printing that could potentially be used to improve the reliability of oil and natural gas pipelines.  This, in turn, could be a boon to power plants [...]

There is a major push from a variety of sources for wider adoption of distributed energy resources (DER), and electric utilities will need to figure out how to manage this transition.  [...]

I recently learned that the water chemistry in steam power plants is critical to optimizing their reliability.  Steam power plants, especially those fueled by oil, coal, natural gas, and in the [...]

It’s always a good idea to learn about trends and best practices from other factions in the emergency preparedness universe, which is why I was intrigued when I stumbled upon an article that [...]

Forbes recently published an article that highlighted 50 years’ worth of hurricane landfall data, and the resulting picture is anything but pretty.  Hurricanes (called tropical cyclones in [...]

Accident tolerant fuels are all the rage, and in fact are now being utilized at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois.  This emerging type of fuel features an improved tolerance toward [...]

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its annual report, called the World Energy Outlook 2019, and it illuminates several interesting insights for electric utilities.  In [...]

There were various Puerto Rico microgrids setup after Hurricane Maria, and they have been an absolute blessing for an island that simply can’t catch a break.  On January 7, 2020, a [...]