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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 26, 2018

Study Finds Lack of Climate Change Adaptation by Water Utilities

It’s no secret that climate change poses all kinds of risks and challenges for utilities in every sector, which is why climate change adaptation is necessary. For electric utilities, this [...]

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By eileen
In Featured Highlights, Industry Highlights
Posted September 24, 2018

Rise in Pennsylvania Outages Puts Utilities Under Scrutiny

There has been a substantial increase in Pennsylvania outages since 2015, an alarming trend that has the state’s residents and government officials looking for answers.  In 2017, the state had 50 [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 20, 2018

GPS Spoofing: Newest Threat to the Grid

According to researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio, GPS spoofing is the newest threat to the US power grid.  System hacking can happen in many ways, such as phishing employee [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 18, 2018

Managing Air Pollution Requires a Plan

The Clean Water Act addresses polluted waterways, but inexplicably there is no comparable vehicle when it comes to managing air pollution.  This is a problem.  Obviously, polluted air is bad for [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 14, 2018

Overcoming the Water Utility Workforce Challenge

Although this post focuses on the water utility workforce, similar challenges exist across many companies and industries.  The problem is that Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), which account for 23% [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 12, 2018

Water Utilities at Risk Due to Flaws in Smart Irrigation Systems

New research reveals that water utilities are at risk of getting hacked due to vulnerabilities in smart irrigation systems.  Basically, smart irrigation systems, by virtue of their perpetual [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 10, 2018

Top 2018 Electric Utility Trends

As an emergency planning professional, it’s a good idea to be aware of regulatory and/or emerging electric utility trends. While these trends don’t shift dramatically from year to [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 7, 2018

Small Hydropower Dams are not Good for the Environment

Small hydropower dams seem like a good idea in theory, but according to a recent Forbes article, these types of generation assets harm the environment despite the relatively small amount of power [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted September 5, 2018

Driving Sustainable Change in Utilities

I read an excellent article by EHS Today that discusses strategies and techniques for driving sustainable organizational change. As I read the article, I couldn’t help but draw parallels [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted August 29, 2018

Offshore Wind Power is Growing and for Good Reason

The U.S. has been slow to adopt offshore wind power to meet clean energy goals, a fact highlighted by the reality that our nation has less than 1% of offshore wind capacity compared to Europe.  [...]

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