Industry Highlights

You are probably well aware that PG&E’s proactive power shutoffs (called “Public Safety Power Shutoffs” or PSPS) are a hot topic throughout the entire electric utility industry.  [...]

Wind farms have been touted as a means to help reduce the impact of climate change, but new research is emerging that shows wind farms can actually decrease the accuracy of weather [...]

Intelligent automation is a concept that is gaining traction within the utility industry as a means to improve reliability and resiliency.  But what exactly is it? Primer on Intelligent [...]

There have been various alert warning systems launched in the last couple of years – including Facebook emergency alerts and visual emergency alerts – but California emergency alerts [...]

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 [...]