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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report detailing its analysis of how FEMA approaches emergency preparedness, response and recovery.  GAO performed the analysis [...]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is making strides toward improving the predictive capability of its weather forecasting software.  On June 12, 2019, NOAA upgraded [...]

I read an interesting article from the Guardian the other day that focused on the question of whether average hurricane strength is increasing because of climate change.  I, for one, certainly [...]

Talk about shooting for the stars!  In May 2019, NASA, FEMA and the ESA (European Space Agency) sponsored an asteroid emergency tabletop exercise.  This was the latest in a series of emergency [...]

Is a catastrophe fund the answer to California utilities’ fire exposure problem?  Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but it’s the most promising solution I’ve heard so far. The Catastrophe Fund [...]

I recently came across an excellent case study of a multi-year water utility emergency planning initiative, and I thought it was a great overview of how a typical water and wastewater utility [...]

Are planned outages a viable outage-reduction strategy?  According to PG&E – in addition to enhanced vegetation management, increased line inspections, and the deployment of sensors, [...]

I read a great article in the New York Times today that used the PG&E bankruptcy filing as a case in point to illustrate the high costs of climate change, and it was definitely [...]

The utility industry is clearly evolving, and as such, there are some clear 2019 electric utility trends that must be incorporated into strategic planning and emergency preparedness [...]

Experts are now warning that the state of California is entering the so-called “fire flood” era thanks to rising global temperatures that create larger and more frequent wildfires which decimate [...]