Industry Highlights

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 [...]

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 [...]

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% [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]