Across the U.S., there are 3,000 incidents of utility poles catching fire each year, many of which are caused by leakages and damages to a pole that went unaddressed for too long. Such damages can be ...

Employing artificial intelligence (AI) in the power industry may seem like a futuristic concept, but the truth is that it’s available in several innovative applications today. Power companies that tap ...

Back in the good old pre-2017 days when many Californians paid little or no attention to the approximately dollar-a-month maintenance charge on their electric bills, most customers figured their money ...

The utility industry is on the cusp of transforming how it monitors, maintains and secures critical infrastructure. Specifically, we’re seeing them move from reactive electric grid maintenance to ...

A hot topic at Distributech this year was augmented reality and virtual reality and their applications in the utility industry. The first panel session planned for the 2018 IEEE PES T&D Conference and ...