Industry Highlights

A February 2019 water outage in Dayton, OH triggered a flood of calls to city’s call center, distribution centers, and Emergency Operations Center (EOC).  In just 3 days, the utility [...]

Exelon-owned Commonwealth Edison Company, or ComEd, is gaining a reputation as an electric utility that is extremely focused on reliability.  The Illinois-based company has made tremendous [...]

I just read a very interesting article from Environmental Leader that warns about yet another climate change risk – aridification.  As I hadn’t heard this term before, I was intrigued.  [...]

As we all know, emergency preparedness for a utility in any sector boils down to storm response.  We plan, and plan, and plan some more, in order to maximize the efficiency, effectiveness, [...]

Puerto Rico is still trying to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and in an effort to try and prevent a similar catastrophe, PREPA (Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority) has [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued 7 new WIFIA loans to help fund initiatives to implement some much-needed water infrastructure enhancements.  The goal is to improve water [...]

Are planned outages a viable outage-reduction strategy?  According to PG&E – in addition to enhanced vegetation management, increased line inspections, and the deployment of sensors, [...]

If you’re anything like me, the importance of fire hydrants is typically not top-of-mind.  They are pervasive but sort of fade into the background of our landscapes, only rising in [...]

Urban planning is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about emergency preparedness, yet it is related to preparedness on multiple levels.  It’s true that the vast [...]

Yes, apparently it is possible to use goats to prevent forest fires.  A town in California that survived the 2018 fire devastation is pulling out all the stops to protect itself from a future [...]