Industry Highlights

Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida as a massive category 5 event about 1 year ago as of the time of this writing (10/1/18).  It was only the fourth hurricane ever to hit the US as a [...]

Space weather is a field of science that is concerned with, well, monitoring weather events originating from space.  This might sound hokey, but it’s important when you consider that a [...]

The Sept. 2019 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities illuminate the risk of a natural gas pipeline attack here in the US, according to FERC’s chairman, Neil Chatterjee. He believes that even a [...]

Electric vehicle growth is inevitable, but according to a report just released by the Rocky Mountain Institute, over-saturation of electric vehicles could cripple the grid.  This is an [...]

The large California electric utilities have plans to strategically deploy planned blackouts during high-risk periods to help control wildfires throughout the state.  While this might be the [...]

During a Sept. 2019 news briefing, Tokyo Electric Power Company said that it will start dumping radioactive water from the shuttered Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.  This is the [...]

Wildfire camera monitoring systems are the latest weapon in the battle against large-scale forest fires.  These monitoring systems are comprised of a network of high-def, near infrared cameras [...]

If cybersecurity is not high on your company’s priority list, you’re at risk.  System hacking is a major threat to utilities.  Viruses, malware, and other nastiness is always lurking.  And now a [...]

Hurricane Dorian is in the books, and as I’m sure you know, it was absolutely devastating to the islands off the coast of Florida.  In recent years, scientists, meteorologists, and other [...]

I read an interesting article in Forbes about a potential nuclear plant security breach caused by bitcoin mining.  Someone apparently set up shop in the power plant and in the process, [...]