LANSING - A million Michiganders lost power in two storms more than a month ago. As a result, the Michigan Public Service Commission, after two public town halls, has revised rules that utility companies must provide credits to consumers when black outs continue for more than 96 hours. MPSC Commissioner Katherine Peretick provides all the
ANN ARBOR - MPSC Commissioner Katherine Petitick talks about the changes MPSC has made for electricity providers in the wake of multiple power outages this winter. Phillip Emma talks about his Breakfast & Learn Event Keep Phish at Bay and Prevent Ransomware. John Petty announces the Powering EV's conference May 24 at LTU. Matt Roush
DETROIT - This week’s Smart Mobility Today includes news about renewable energy, some caution being expressed about AI, and lots of interesting ways robots and drones help us get thing things done. To listen, click on Smart Mobility Today.
The rise of autonomous vehicles has been a harbinger of great excitement and speculation, garnering public and private attention. Autonomous vehicles may revolutionize our travel, reducing the need for manual driving and potentially reducing traffic accidents. But with this rise comes questions about liability in the case of personal injury. Who will be held responsible
WASHINGTON DC - There were signs that ransomware gangs might — key word, “might” — have been on the run in 2022. But experts from The Cybersecurity 202 Network are far from confident that the trend, if real, will continue in 2023. A big majority of the expert group, 67 percent, expected ransomware to take off again in this
ANN ARBOR - Comcast has been doing work with local community partners in Michigan to help bridge the digital divide for income-constrained families. Rob Ponto from Comcast shares the many ways Comcast has worked to meet this goal and why it’s so important to connect everyone to the transformative power of the internet. In this
SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists have studied photosynthesis in plants for centuries, but an international team believes they've unlocked new secrets in nature's great machine that could revolutionize sustainable fuels and fight climate change. The team says they've determined it's possible to extract an electrical charge at the best possible point in photosynthesis. This means harvesting
NEW YORK. - While tokamaks are seen by many (including the U.S. Department of Energy) as the leading concept of commercial fusion, stellarators are a bit of an underdog. But they have a few benefits over their popular competitor. Now, stellarators are entering the commercial realm as fusion company Type One Energy—which combines expertise from the
WASHINGTON DC - Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables passed nuclear electricity production for the first time in 2012 and continued to outpace it.Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed
NEW YORK - Last month’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contained a dire warning: Radical action is needed to cut worldwide carbon emissions 60 percent by 2035 and avert the worst effects of a climate disaster. The report raised the stakes in the ongoing race to decarbonize the world’s industries, with
