Industry Highlights

March 28, 2019 was the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island partial core meltdown.  At the time, the event induced mass fear and panic, but was it really that serious?  Well, [...]

Flood water pumping is emerging as a viable solution for draining highly flooded areas.  This is welcome news, because during outages, flooded roadways represent a huge drag on utility [...]

Communication failures can doom even the best emergency response efforts.  Even if the best possible communication technology is utilized, if it lacks seamless integration with other systems and [...]

I enjoy reading articles from Forbes, as the publication often publishes very thought-provoking material, and its recent article focused on the virtues of nuclear power in the face of extreme [...]

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 [...]