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If you've ever driven down a street during a power outage and wondered why some neighborhoods have lights while others sit in the dark, you've witnessed distribution design at work. Those decisions about load balancing, redundancy paths, and equipment placement have an impact on which lights stay on during the next heat wave or storm. For most people, power is invisible until it stops working. But for distribution engineers, every design choice carries real consequences for g

The United States is home to over 900 electric coops, and they’ve collectively been bringing power to rural communities for nearly 100...

We all know that a good workflow with old tech beats a bad workflow with great tech every day of the week. No matter how much we know...

New tech and better services have slowly but surely changed our expectations for the grid. We don’t just expect more consistent energy,...

Our people are the most valuable resource in the aerial OSP industry. Communication services wouldn’t be possible without the folks...

We're excited to announce the launch of our new training program for OSP field technicians! Our OSP Field Bootcamp is an in-person,...

If you've ever watched a pole attachment request sit idle for weeks while paperwork shuffles between the utility, the DOT, and the railroad, you've witnessed pole permitting in action. Seemingly simple tasks like replacing one deteriorating pole on a state highway can trigger permit applications to three different entities, each with their own forms, fees, timelines, and approval processes. Pole permitting isn't the engineering work. It's not the construction. It's the often-

If you’ve been in the world of pole attachments for any amount of time, you probably know that the attachment process is complicated. In...

It's that time again! The October release of Katapult Pro is now live at katapultpro.com . Check out our release highlights below, or...

If you've engineered or submitted pole attachment applications in more than one utility footprint, you've noticed that it can feel like two completely different worlds. The applications go to different places. The approval timelines move at different speeds. The rules you are held to are not the same. A lot of that comes down to one thing most people gloss over: the kind of company that owns the pole. We tend to lump every power company together as a "utility," but the differ