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This is a new one to me. Recently hundreds of people in the Victoria and Melbourne areas of Australia fell ill to what is being termed as thunderstorm asthma. Ambulance services were hit with [...]

Most people associate climate change with an increase in hurricane severity. But that’s not the only impact. Some scientists believe global warming is also leading to an increase in earthquake [...]

I recently read an article describing an initiative deployed by the British Columbia government, wherein each of its senior officials was supplied with a satellite phone in case conventional [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about the recent massive internet outage that brought huge sites like Twitter and Reddit to a screeching halt. And as you likely [...]

I spend a lot of time talking about emergency preparedness for electric and gas utilities, but the same concepts also apply to hazardous spills in sectors of energy such as oil and petroleum.  In [...]

In late September 2016, a sweeping power outage hit South Australia state, which has 1.7 million residents, caused by tornadoes, thunderstorms and strong winds.  Interestingly, despite the harsh [...]

More and more industry pundits and decision-makers are starting to focus on the so-called death print.  The costs to produce energy are typically framed in terms of the quantifiable dollars [...]

Emergency drills and exercises are not just the domain of utility companies.  A recent example was a week-long emergency exercise conducted by the Rockland Fire Department that involved a [...]

The overall utility workforce is aging, and this represents a huge challenge across the entire industry.  The aging workforce means that more and more people will be retiring in the near [...]

Ameren Missouri, which provides electricity to 1.2 million customers, is getting serious about making a substantial investment in improving its transmission and distribution infrastructure.  The [...]