Industry Highlights

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 [...]

A group of California water utilities is pushing the state’s legislators to shield the companies from paying for damages caused by forest fires.  The group, called the Coalition for Fire [...]

I read a very interesting article from powermag.com that discusses the virtues of reality capture as a means of improving the safety and efficiency of utility workers.  It can also enhance [...]

Oakland California, along with Alameda County, recently tested an earthquake early warning system facilitated via wireless emergency alerts (WEA).  About 40,000 residents received the alert [...]

New York City, like many shoreline regions, is facing the prospect of increased coastal flooding in the future that will likely impact the city’s residents as well as the operations of its local [...]

Is a catastrophe fund the answer to California utilities’ fire exposure problem?  Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but it’s the most promising solution I’ve heard so far. The Catastrophe Fund [...]

Proactive outage management is far more efficient and effective than reactive tactics.  Obviously, step #1 of being proactive is having an emergency plan in place, but that simply represents [...]