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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 [...]

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 [...]

The frequency of large dust storms is increasing in several parts of the world.  Here in the U.S., dust storms have been on the rise for at least the past 20 years in the southwest, and are also [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data on outage frequency and duration from electric utilities, for every outage that lasts more than five minutes, and releases a report [...]

As of the time of this post (May 11, 2018), Hawaii’s Big Island is continuing to get hammered by a relentless onslaught of earthquakes and lava from Kilauea, the most active volcano on the [...]

I was floored to learn that multiple gas and oil drilling companies in California have violated state regulations an average of 127 times each year since 2015!  These violations have encompassed [...]

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, 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 [...]

It is hard to believe that it’s been 7 years since Tokyo Electric Power experienced the worst nuclear incident in its history – an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that essentially destroyed the [...]

Now that 2017 is waaaaay back in the rear-view mirror, and the 1Q of 2018 is well underway, I thought it would be fun to find out what industry experts consider to be some of the top electric [...]