Industry Highlights

According to the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, the risk of biothreats is real, increasing, and something for which we as a nation are woefully unprepared to handle. Ouch! The Ins and [...]

I read a very thought-provoking New York Times article that questions the financial responsibility arising from utility negligence.  The article centers on a bill currently before the California [...]

When it comes to emergency preparedness, lessons learned are a powerful tool.  One recent example of this relates to the learnings from the ongoing Hawaii volcano crisis, which have been used to [...]

I am not sure if this is a cry wolf scenario or not, but according to California PUC President Michael Picker, further deregulation / diversification of the state’s electricity industry could [...]

When it comes to power outages, hurricane winds get all the hype, but flooding may actually pose the greatest risk to reliability.  Over 70% of presidential disaster declarations over the past [...]

Automating damage assessment would pay tremendous dividends for electric utilities.  Not only would it reduce costs, but it would also likely reduce average restoration times. Current Approach to [...]

I recently read a Harvard Business Review article focused on the “smart talk trap.”  It struck a chord with me as I read it, mainly because I have had the misfortune of dealing with this behavior [...]

Like many things in life and business, underground power lines have both pros and cons.  It is definitely true that undergrounding can improve service reliability, but the cost is prohibitive.  [...]

Simply put, blockchain is a ledger network technology and data structure that allows people to make highly secure electronic cash transactions with one another, without the need for a central [...]

Coal-fired power plants produce tens of millions of tons of toxic ash each and every year as a byproduct of their electric generation operations, and much of this waste ends up mixed with water [...]