Industry Highlights

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

One of the more pressing issues in the emergency preparedness field – and for the utility industry as a whole – is the trend of declining institutional knowledge across the workforce.  The cold, [...]

Energy storage has been a buzz-phrase for many years, but it has never really been ready for prime time until now.  This is especially true in California, and in fact PG&E recently filed for [...]

One of the most challenging aspects of outage restoration is replacing grid equipment that is damaged, especially large transformers.  Simply put, there is no easy way to procure these items on [...]

Road blockages caused by evacuation traffic and debris can be a major hindrance to effective utility restoration efforts.   This is certainly not Earth-shattering news to those in the know, but [...]

Whether you are fully onboard or not, one thing we can all agree on is that global warming, if true, is bad.  Very bad, especially for us emergency preparedness folks who are faced with the [...]

The damage from Hurricane Maria to Puerto Rico’s power grid gets most of the press, and rightfully so with the ongoing restoration projected to cost north of $100 billion.  But it has been months [...]