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Water systems, like other industrial and manufacturing facilities, depend on pumps, valves, motors, drives, relays, analyzers, process sensors, engineering workstations, operator displays and communication networks. These are physical systems, not information systems. The pumps move the water. The valves control it. The motors and drives provide power. The analyzers measure chemistry. The process sensors measure…

More than 30 Minnesota communities saw their water and wastewater utilities disrupted by a coordinated cyberattack on Sunday and Monday, the state’s technology bureau announced Tuesday.

The artificial intelligence boom is doing more than reshaping software, it’s cracking the foundations of America’s power grid. As data centers multiply to feed the compute needs of large language models, utilities are scrambling for new sources of baseload power, and increasingly they’re turning to an unlikely partner: fusion startups. The latest beneficiary is Realta…

The AI boom’s insatiable appetite for electricity is pushing power utilities into uncharted territory: striking deals with fusion energy startups that haven’t yet produced a single watt of commercial power. Realta Fusion is the latest beneficiary of this scramble, according to a new report from TechCrunch, as grid operators bet on fusion’s long-promised payoff arriving…

Fusion startup Realta Fusion this week announced a deal with Madison Gas and Electric that will place one of the first grid-connected fusion power plants in the country in Wisconsin. The partnership comes as utilities around the world have been jockeying to court fusion startups, a courtship that says as much about utilities’ anxiety over…

Integrated planning can lower costs to ratepayers by reducing duplicative spending, and New York could lead the way, write experts at Current Energy Group and Advanced Energy United.

For generations, the energy and utility industry has depended on the judgment of its people. 

Moderna MRNA, Coinbase Global COIN, BioNTech BNTX, Argenx ARGX, and Hims & Hers Health HIMS were the top performers among US-listed stocks covered by Morningstar analysts.

Water utilities have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat actors as the sector adopts connected technologies to improve efficiency, automate operations and remotely manage critical infrastructure. While digital transformation offers significant operational benefits, it also creates new attack surfaces that adversaries can exploit to disrupt water treatment, distribution and other essential services.