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National Electric Power Grid Must Be More Secure And Resilient Almost everyone from across the political spectrum can agree on at least this one thing: the nation’s electric power grid must be made more resilient. The grid has so many vulnerabilities and problems that there is something for almost anyone to latch ...
An Insecure ‘Smart’ Grid is Not So Smart The electrical grid is vital not only to civil society but to the military as well. Defending it against the threats of the post-9/11 era requires strategic thinking to complement the grid’s focus on local interests ...
Nation’s Power Grid Too Vulnerable? The electric power grid in the United States is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks and other threats, concluded a report issued on Wednesday by Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA).
Formalizing the National Guard Role in Restoring Electrical Power Disaster response and recovery experts are just beginning to fully assess the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy, in which over four million people on the east coast lost power and hundreds of ...
Keeping the Lights On: Cyber Terrorism and the Power Grid The clear and present danger of cyber threats to our critical infrastructure, such as the national power grid, can no longer be ignored. Fortunately, the government began calling attention to cyber risks in the form of a recent presidential Executive Order, the reintroduction of cyber security legislation, and some long-delayed but honest pronouncements about ongoing attacks from China and other nation-states. Now it is time to move from rhetoric to action.
Ensuring The Resilience Of The U.S. Electrical Grid The North American power grid is a modern engineering marvel, and yet at the same time it is increasingly a system facing great risk of being disrupted by adverse events. Nearly all of the critical ...
Smarter Grid is a Smart Investment For thousands of years, nocturnal light was an expensive luxury. Today we can't imagine life without cheap round-the-clock light. This is just one example of how the U.S. electrical grid is responsible for ...
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part IV: Key Investment Areas and Next Steps It has been widely observed across many aspects of life that, “knowledge is power,” and this certainly holds true in the case of knowing what is happening and why across the many pieces that comprise the electrical power grid. Specifically, because electricity from the grid cannot be stored and must instead be continuously generated and transmitted and then instantly consumed, the power of knowing in real-time the precise demand, actual supply flows, and any anomalous energy losses throughout the system is even more important than in many other arenas.
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part III: Requirements For A More Resilient System Despite all the wondrous aspects of our electrical power grid and our increasing dependence upon it, for all too many of us it is essentially invisible, and as a result we take a properly functioning and secure grid ...
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part II: Managing the Chaos – and Costs – of Shared Risks The North American power grid is indeed a modern marvel, and yet at the same time it is increasingly a system facing great risk. Part of this is merely due to the age of many of its essential components, for as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has noted, ...
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