To improve emergency response operations, utilities across the United States and Canada are increasingly adopting the Incident Command System (ICS). Given what appears to be the increasing severity of ...

Carl Potter and Deb Potter No Such Thing as Collateral Damage Annually, 75 to 80 workers die from fatal injuries in the electric utility industry. A large number of these deaths are due to electrical ...

Steve Hunter is director of operations and assistant general manager at Benton PUD, overseeing the safety and reliability of the utility’s electric system. He has more than 30 years working in the ...

Remote monitoring of substation equipment is used to take advantage of present information technology to reduce operating costs while loading that equipment closer to nameplate ratings and deferring ...