I have blogged previously about the aging workforce challenge facing the US, Western Europe(especially Germany), South Korea, Australia, Canada, and Japan. Government projections of population decline in Japan are unparalleled anywhere else in the world, […]
Yesterday at the Distributech Utility University, Erich Gunther, Ron Farquharson, Sandy Bacik, and Christian Perreault gave a very well researched, in-depth overview of the state of smart grid in North America. Starting from the premise […]
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of starting salaries of U.S. college graduates by compiling data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and a […]
I blogged previously about the necessity of increasing labor market participation rates rather on making changes to pension systems in the EU because of the aging workforce. There are some startling statistics about same problem […]
Debra Brooks and Jennifer Ryan of Southern California Edison (SCE) gave an outstanding presentation at Autodesk University on SCE’s vision and approach in standardizing and unifying design processes for distribution and transmission. SCE is one […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending […]
In a previous blog I had mentioned the National Commission on Energy Policy’s report Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs which focusses on the workforce issues facing the electric power industry at a time when it […]
According to the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs the world’s population will reach seven billion roughly around October 31. A global population of 9.3 billion people is projected […]