Industry Highlights

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you are no doubt keenly aware of Australia’s shocking bushfire emergency.  But scientists are conflicted about the underlying [...]

It’s no secret that the California electric utilities are scrambling to find solutions to the state’s growing forest fire problem.  Despite some immediate repercussions such as the PG&E [...]

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced in November 2019 the allocation of $80 million over the next 3 years to cover the implementation of 23 grid modernization projects.  The announcement was [...]

Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in Sept. 2018, highlighted the importance of effective storm communications.  For some parts of North Carolina, the impact of the hurricane turned out [...]

Emergency alerts and disaster warnings have improved over the years, but there is still a huge opportunity to improve the technology even further.  The good news is that multiple federal [...]

I recently stumbled onto a great overview of how high-performance overhead conductors can boost the overall reliability of the grid, and although I’ve never previously delved into the wonderful [...]

NERC recently painted a bleak picture of how changes in the U.S. bulk power system could reduce the long-term reliability of the grid, especially in Texas, which is expected to experience supply [...]

My friends at Energy Central just published an article that outlines the top-5 utility technology trends for 2020.  Nothing on the list is a surprise, but I do think it’s worth discussing the [...]

There is no doubt about it, California volcanoes, although not the state’s most famous geological threat, are something that utility companies in the state should be keeping a close eye on.  Why [...]

New research suggests that utilities could potentially reduce outage response times by leveraging satellite data.  In fact, NASA recently concluded a study that attempted to quantify this [...]