Updated: 7:00 PM CDT Jun 15, 2021 Bob Mayo Reporter Tom Raith, a 93-year-old Korean War veteran, still lived independently in his Pittsburgh home where he s lived for more than 60 years.Raith still drove and prepared his own meals, too.But his family says he died during the power outage when his oxygen equipment lost electricity. This was uncalled for. Why would power be off for that many hours? Raith s daughter Janet Zreliak told Pittsburgh sister station WTAE.Zreliak visited her father Sunday afternoon until 5 p.m. and they spoke daily. She was worried when he didn t pick up the phone Monday.She reached a neighbor who said power had been off on her father s street for 21 hours. When he told me for how long it was out, I thought, Oh my God, so I came flying down here, Zreliak said.She arrived to discover her father dead. I walk in the living room. My dad s just slumped over, like on his pillow. And his oxygen was hanging out of his nose. And I
Duquesne Light Company Announces New Executive Leadership
Kevin Walker Named President and CEO
News provided by
Share this article
Share this article
PITTSBURGH, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Board of Directors of DQE Holdings LLC (DQE) has appointed Kevin Walker as the new president and CEO of Duquesne Light Company (DLC), Duquesne Light Holdings, Inc. and DQE. Walker succeeds Mark Kaplan who has served in an interim role since January of this year. Kaplan has also served as chief financial officer and will retain that role throughout June, after which he will become special advisor to the company s management and board of directors. Matthew Ankrum will assume the vice president, chief financial officer role on July 1.
An electrical failure caused the fire last month at Pittsburgh’s Gulf Tower, fire investigators have determined. The May 19 fire was caused by “a failure of the secondary phase Gulf Tower’s electrical system,” authorities wrote on social media. They emphasized that the electrical system is not part of the Duquesne
E-Mail
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, May 6, 2021 - A winning consortium led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) the Israeli leader, and Arizona State University (ASU) the U.S. leader, along with several other tech partners, including Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GT), will receive up to $6 million under a U.S.-Israel Energy Center research funding grant for energy infrastructure cybersecurity.
The consortium s research project is entitled: Comprehensive Cybersecurity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure AI Based Centralized Defense and Edge Resilience. Increasingly, both Israel and the U.S. face costly cyberattacks that can cause severe damage to critical energy infrastructure. This consortium will develop, integrate, and test technologies, and demonstrate high value cyberattack mitigation technologies on the energy infrastructure using data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.