Industry Highlights

At least 4 U.S. pipeline operators have recently been victimized by a cyber-attack – Oneok, Energy Transfer Partners, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, and Eastern Shore Natural Gas.  These reports [...]

The California PUC (Public Utilities’ Commission) has come down hard on the state’s electric utility companies due to perceived shortcomings with regard to their handling of the recent fire [...]

In March 2018, the Baltimore 911 dispatch system was shut down due to an apparent system hack.  This comes on the heels of recent cyber-attacks targeting U.S. pipeline operators, the electric [...]

Despite the tens of millions of dollars that have been poured into emergency communication system upgrades after 9/11, emergency radios are still – in many cases – unable to handle the spike in [...]

In March 2018, Scott Aaronson, the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) VP for security and emergency preparedness, spoke at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy hearing entitled DOE [...]

I read a fascinating article that discussed how social networks can help reduce fatalities during major disasters.  Simply put, community togetherness that spawns trust and comradery generally [...]

In March 2018, Virginia held a statewide tornado drill as part of its overall emergency preparedness efforts.  This is refreshing, as I don’t hear about tornado drills very often, [...]

For utility companies, incident management software can dramatically improve the efficiency of emergency response.  Many utility companies rely heavily on various manual mechanisms to orchestrate [...]

Every four years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency publishes an updated FEMA strategic plan designed to enhance the country’s disaster preparedness and reduce the perceived complexity of [...]

Utilities – especially electric utilities – are facing increased pressure from all angles to improve outage response times.  And this is a trend that is only expected to increase over time, [...]