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Everybody’s favorite punching bag in California, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), is yet again the subject of intense scrutiny over its vegetation work.  This time, it’s from the federal [...]

For utilities, emergency exercises are necessary, but without proper visual tools, can sometimes be deceiving. When I went to work for an electric utility, one of the first stops on the [...]

To a utility’s damage assessors and restoration teams, the season’s Super Bowl comes in many forms: lightning, snow, ice storms, wind, forest fires, floods, dust, spills, twisters or [...]

Sometimes, when we’re researching ways to get a point across about outage restoration and emergency preparedness, we run across an article from an outside source that really hits home.  [...]

For utility companies, training exercise injects are sort of like virtual reality – like, say, The Matrix.  You know, the movie where humankind is enslaved in an interactive virtual reality [...]

“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” – Vince Lombardi For electric utilities, restoration metrics are critical in much the same way as all forms of measurements in [...]

We have beaten the drum for frequent drills and exercises enough to give even our own veteran associates and clients virtual headaches. And while we are still true believers in the beneficial [...]

A police officer awakens you to inform you that your son or daughter has been arrested and needs to be picked up from the local police station. Your real estate agent lets you know that you lost [...]

When it comes to communications technology, the ‘good old days’ of the 70’s and 80’s weren’t really, well, all that good. Landline phones were wired into walls, low-band radios had issues with [...]