Industry Highlights

Aside from maybe a billing dispute, no one cares about their electric utility during so-called “blue sky days,” but during an outage, if storm recovery fails to meet customer and regulator [...]

Distribution line undergrounding is becoming an increasingly popular storm hardening tactic because it shields these lines from falling trees, vehicle accidents, ice accumulation, and high winds [...]

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) has published a guide for homeowners designed to help them understand the impact that a natural disaster might have on their [...]

If the September 2018 Columbia Gas disaster is any indication, the impact of an emergency situation can extend far beyond the initial restoration effort.  Six months after the Columbia Gas [...]

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 [...]