In September, leaders from HomeServe presented at two conferences. While the topics and audiences were quite different, a common theme that emerged was the critical need for strategies and solutions to address the skilled trades gap, to ensure continuity and customer...
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Increase In Extreme Cold Events Posing New Challenges for Energy Utilities
by Peter Buttrick | Feb 13, 2024
While it’s intuitive to link the warming of the planet with hotter and longer heatwaves, longer droughts, more wildfires, and heavier rain, the link is less obvious when it comes to an increase in extreme cold events across North America, particularly in areas that...
Infrastructure Week 2023
by HomeServe USA | May 11, 2023
Happy Infrastructure Week! We will be adding new infrastructure information, statistics, and more every day, so don’t forget to check back.Over the Last 5 YearsPeople StoriesItzel Perez Dominguez considered the purchase of a home – her first – carefully. She knew...
Climate Change Will Cost Utilities Millions if Not Addressed
by Peter Buttrick | Sep 19, 2022
Climate change spells lowered efficiency, increased expenses and more outages – the only thing customers dislike more than rate increases – and as the demand for energy increases, the problems around climate change only loom larger. The decade between 2000 to 2010 was...
Natural Gas Utilities: Securing the Future
by HomeServe USA | Mar 27, 2020
Natural gas utilities in the US are in the midst of perhaps the most exciting and challenging time in their long history. Although natural gas prices are low and seemingly stable, geographic sources of natural gas have changed and electric utilities are using...
Gas Line Repair Puts Homeowner at Risk of Economic Shock
by HomeServe USA | Feb 14, 2020
Shannon, a Southern California Gas customer, was at risk of economic shock when learned she had a problem with her gas service line. Service was temporarily discontinued to her home after a leak was detected. “The gas company could detect that there was extra gas...
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Energy Industry Events Reveal Dire Utility Need
In September, leaders from HomeServe presented at two conferences. While the topics and audiences were quite different, a common theme that emerged was the critical need for strategies and solutions to address the skilled trades gap, to ensure continuity and customer...
Increase In Extreme Cold Events Posing New Challenges for Energy Utilities
While it’s intuitive to link the warming of the planet with hotter and longer heatwaves, longer droughts, more wildfires, and heavier rain, the link is less obvious when it comes to an increase in extreme cold events across North America, particularly in areas that...
Infrastructure Week 2023
Happy Infrastructure Week! We will be adding new infrastructure information, statistics, and more every day, so don’t forget to check back.Over the Last 5 YearsPeople StoriesItzel Perez Dominguez considered the purchase of a home – her first – carefully. She knew...