Customer Service
Historically, utilities have used drones by either hiring drone service providers that use professional pilots or starting dedicated aviation units with their utility. But Skydio’s drones are in a different class. They use artificial intelligence to interpret the visual data coming from the six fisheye cameras that serve as the drone’s “eyes.” The drone then uses AI to interpret the visual data and to map out the terrain in which the drone is flying, enabling it to navigate that terrain while avoiding obstacles.
Community Engagement
How public power utilities are working with other community organizations and city departments to reduce emissions across the transportation, building, and industrial sectors.
Generation
Why advanced nuclear is becoming an increasingly valued option in the future generating mix, and lessons from public power projects leading the way.
Grid Modernization
How research and development efforts have helped and can continue to help public power determine viable paths to an affordable, reliable grid of the future.
Workforce
A few key stats from the Center for Energy Workforce Development’s 2023 Energy Workforce Survey.
Grid Modernization
Three public power journeys in the energy transition – including implementing energy storage solutions, finding new approaches to load management, and exploring new forms of generation.
Community Engagement
Lessons from different public power communities that planned for and reached clean energy goals, and what’s next for their power supply planning.
Generation
The California Department of Water Resources recently unveiled its latest initiative aimed at improving energy grid reliability during extreme weather with the installation of three state-of-the-art generators in the state’s Central Valley.
Energy Efficiency
The City of Fayetteville, N.C., is the recipient of a $245,040 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, the city said in late May.
Distributed Energy Resources
The results of a study conducted by researchers at Department of Energy national laboratories suggest that existing community solar projects are expanding solar access in the United States to a more demographically diverse population.