I have blogged frequently on the workforce challenges facing the utility industry resulting from accelerating retirement among engineers and skilled workers and by the technology transformation associated with the smart grid. Community colleges in partnership […]
I have blogged on many occasions about pathological business processes for designing, building and operating and maintaining infrastructure that plague many utilities. Some of these processes don’t seem to have changed since Edison and Tesla’s […]
The Utilities Standards Forum (USF) is an organization representing about 50 Ontario electricity distribution companies. Its goal is collaboratively to define standards for its members to reduce duplication of effort. The USF has developed design […]
I have blogged about the shrinking workforce in countries around the world like Japan and Germany, but also in other West European countries. The shrinking workforce is acting as a brake on the German economy. […]
I have blogged on many occasions about the aging utility workforce in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. For example, The populations of some EU member states such as Germany are decreasing, while in others […]
In the UK the median age of Chartered engineers rises 10 years for every 14 that elapse. A new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, titled Jobs and growth: the importance […]
I blogged recently about some remarkable statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that the labor force participation rate for workers 65-and-over has gone up dramatically since the 1990s. A new CIBC poll […]
Productivity has become a major challenge in the $7 trillion construction industry. Recently McKinsey reported that construction productivity has stagnated in the EU, Japan, and Korea, and declined in the U.S. In the utility and […]