Industry Highlights

I recently read a scathing opinion piece in Forbes regarding an impending natural gas shortage in New York state caused by what amounts to a de facto ban on new pipeline development.  As [...]

Believe it or not, heat waves kill more people in the U.S. than any other type of extreme weather.  At least 1,300 heat-related fatalities occur in the US each and every year, and this number is [...]

Infrastructure inspections – whether it’s transmission & distribution lines, natural gas infrastructure, dams or bridges – are an absolute necessity to help maximize reliability, which, as [...]

The 1986 Chernobyl event is widely considered to be the worst nuclear disaster our planet has ever seen, far worse than the 2011 Fukushima incident.  Over 500 million people were exposed to [...]

I read an interesting article from the Guardian the other day that focused on the question of whether average hurricane strength is increasing because of climate change.  I, for one, certainly [...]

New advances in wireless monitoring technology can help improve utilities’ emergency preparedness by improving reliability, because as you know, the greater the reliability, the lower the [...]

Effective utility leadership can make or break employees’ commitment to emergency preparedness.  Effective leadership can help ensure that everyone is on the same page, working efficiently and [...]

If utility companies can avoid procuring risky technology, our nation’s overall cybersecurity profile will improve dramatically.  This is the message US regulators are conveying as they work to [...]

Smart cities are all the rage due to their ability to leverage real-time data to enhance decision-making, but an added or perhaps even more important benefit is the ability of smart technology to [...]

Talk about shooting for the stars!  In May 2019, NASA, FEMA and the ESA (European Space Agency) sponsored an asteroid emergency tabletop exercise.  This was the latest in a series of emergency [...]