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Burns & McDonnell’s Newest Office Opens in Sunny Orlando
We love how our work takes us to every corner of the United States and around the globe, making an impact by helping make our clients successful. It’s especially gratifying when our growth warrants a...
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Transmission Megatrends in the West
The world of electric transmission and distribution (T&D) is booming as the ever-present effort to sustain and improve the grid drives ongoing investments. The boom reflects the need to maintain...
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Distributed Energy Resources and the Value of the Grid
Our power grid, more than a century old, is the largest interconnected machine on Earth. According to the National Academy of Engineering, widespread electrification — supported by the grid — is the...
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Understanding Overpressure Protection and the Downstream User
It’s happening more than ever before along pipelines: Downstream users are being cited for inadequate overpressure protection per Code of Regulation (CFR) 192.195. Often, an entity doesn’t even know...
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Trail Development Below Transmission Lines
The world’s urban population is growing. According to the World Health Organization, 54 percent of people lived in urban areas in 2014, up from 34 percent in 1960. As people flock to cities, they find...
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Transmission Line Routing Lessons Learned
Improving infrastructure is vital to safety, sustainability and economic growth in the U.S. For those routing transmission lines, communication begins in the earliest stages — developing strong...
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Preparing for CIP-014 Compliance: Are You Ready?
Threats to our nation’s power grid are nothing new. The electrical grid has always been designed to respond to unexpected outages caused by Mother Nature and aging infrastructure. But in the past few...
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How the AEC Industry is Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Put aside any preconceived notions you have about drones. These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are chock full of potential for cost and time savings in the AEC industry. Whether you call them...
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Protecting Electrical Transmission Assets: Why You Need a Security Assessment...
After the April 2013 attack on Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Metcalf substation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed the North American Electric Reliability...
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From Design to Construction: Getting Started with Substation Perimeter Security
Two years ago, an attack on Pacific Gas & Electric’s Metcalf Substation took multiple power transformers offline in a matter of minutes and exposed vulnerabilities in our nation’s power grid. The...
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Virtual Reality: Best Practices for CIP Compliant Data Center Infrastructure...
As technology continues to change the way the electric power industry operates, utilities are increasingly urged to step into the virtual world with data center infrastructure virtualization. This push...
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Preparing the Grid for the Impact of Solar Storms — and New NERC Standards
A cloud of solar material and electromagnetic radiation hurtles from the sun towards Earth, disturbing the electric grid and leaving millions without power. It sounds like science fiction. But it...
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Looking Ahead to DistribuTECH 2016
As power industry leaders converge on Orlando for this year’s DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition, we do so with certainty that our industry is transforming at an accelerating rate. Panel...
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Supreme Court Upholds FERC Order 745
A Supreme Court decision on Monday, Jan. 25, has clarified one of the murkier recent developments in the world of electricity demand-response programs. In a 6-2 decision authored by Justice Elena...
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New Regulations in Canada May Bring Major Changes to Alberta’s Energy Sector
With abundant natural resources, Canada is an energy-intensive country. It ranks fifth globally for energy production, trailing only China, the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia. With the...
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CIP V5 Modifications Approved
We’ve been keeping close tabs on the latest developments involving modifications to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Version 5 Standards. And on Jan. 21, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory...
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The Changing Landscape of District Energy
Dependent on uninterrupted energy and reliable power to keep their facilities operational, university and campus professionals across our nation grapple with many of the same challenges faced by people...
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An Update on the CIP V5 Motion to Delay
There’s been a lot of movement on the recently approved modifications to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Version 5 Standards and the subsequent motion to delay. Here’s a quick look at...
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Utility Applications of Energy Storage
There’s no question that demand for residential and commercial energy storage will continue to grow. And with heavyweight tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in the picture, it’s equally certain that...
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NERC CIP Implementation Schedule
Have you been keeping up with the developments on NERC’s Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards? With the CIP Version 5 modifications approved under Order 822 and with FERC ruling on the...
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