Originally postponed from August, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s seventh annual Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction event took place Sept. 14-18. The fall prevention stand-down is a national...
Just because workers have been trained on safety practices, doesn’t mean they know how to avoid injury or even death from electrical shock. That is what Littelfuse found when the Chicago-based circuit protection manufacturer...
According to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics, total construction fell 7% from June to July to a seasonally-adjusted rate of $631.6 billion. However, the only real loss in the three segments that Dodge covers was...
August 2020 is a month many Californians will probably prefer to forget. Wildfires, heat waves and power outages highlighted the state’s continuing need to diversify, even after years of pioneering leadership in the field of...
Contractors providing video surveillance, networking or telecommunications products and services to the federal government will have fewer equipment options as of September 30, when implementation rules are slated to go into...
The National Commission on Grid Resilience, co-chaired by General Wesley Clark and former Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), is a bipartisan effort to secure the nation’s grid. The commission released a report, “Grid Resilience...
The end game of energy innovation has always been to end fossil fuel use. Questions remain about how long that will take and if the country can make a complete transformation. A new report says that could be sooner rather...
Two recent press releases from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), one from August 17 and the other from August 18, see positive trends for homebuilding strength. “In a sign that housing continues to lead the...
BP recently announced plans to cut its oil and gas production by 40%. The company will instead invest billions of dollars into low-carbon technology, bioenergy, hydrogen and other renewable-energy sources, as well as carbon...
A new report by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Congress encourages the body to consider the value and benefits of building out and rebuilding the nation’s aging and limited high-voltage transmission grid. The...
According to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), utility-scale battery storage systems are increasingly being installed in the United States. Battery storage systems...
The federal government should have the authority to simulate cyberattacks on the electric grid to lessen the nation’s vulnerability—especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to testimony at a Senate committee hearing...
According to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), construction employment increased by a net 20,000 jobs in July. However, these gains were not seen equally across the industry...
Renewable power and energy storage are teaming up to help the country combat global warming in many ways. Just outside of San Francisco, communities are making contingencies against the growing risk of wildfires. Last month...
With Washington, D.C. seeking to deliver 100% renewable energy by 2032, leaders believe that microgrids will be a key component of achieving that goal. For this reason, regulators are considering measures to lighten...
On July 23, the U.S. government issued a cybersecurity alert to operators of critical infrastructure, including electric utilities, outlining “immediate actions” that they should take during what it defines as a “time of...
From dams to casinos to billboards, nothing is done small in Nevada. Sun and land are large commodities, too. Recently, two companies tapped into those abundant resources in what they are describing as “one of the largest...
The New England Ratepayers Association has lost its bid to have the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) mandate utilities to pay wholesale prices to homeowners who practice net metering using solar panels and other...
On July 15, the White House issued a final rule designed to modernize and accelerate environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), with the stated goal of allowing infrastructure projects to be...
As more sophisticated devices in the home generate their own data streams, a unique market is also emerging for that information. According to a recent report from the research firm Guidehouse Insights, revenue for that data...
