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#Southern_Company subsidiary #PowerSecure signs contract to help restore #Puerto_Rico electric grid

Southern Company subsidiary PowerSecure signs contract to help restore Puerto Rico electric grid ATLANTA, Oct. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PowerSecure, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for additional support to repair the power grid in Puerto Rico. Personnel from PowerSecure will begin arriving … Continue reading #Southern_Company subsidiary #PowerSecure signs contract to help restore #Puerto_Rico electric grid

A bipartisan view on modernizing the US electric grid

A bipartisan view on modernizing the US electric grid Congress must incentivize power industry innovations yielding cleaner and more customized energy services, the co-chairs of the House Grid Innovation Caucus write One of the most pressing challenges facing lawmakers today is the need to update and modernize an aging American infrastructure, including the way we … Continue reading A bipartisan view on modernizing the US electric grid

Why It’s time to fully embrace America’s energy grid diversification

Why It’s time to fully embrace America’s energy grid diversification U.S. regulators should help drive more distributed resources into the grid, ICF’s Philip Mihlmester writes, recommending how they can do so to the benefit of energy consumers and utilities. The United States is at an energy crossroads. There’s a significant movement underway, led by innovative … Continue reading Why It’s time to fully embrace America’s energy grid diversification

New U.S. project to use #artificial_intelligence to minimize electric grid failures

New U.S. project to use artificial intelligence to minimize electric grid failures SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A new project led by SLAC, or Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, will combine artificial intelligence (AI) with massive amounts of data and industry experience to identify places where the electric grid is vulnerable to disruption. The project … Continue reading New U.S. project to use #artificial_intelligence to minimize electric grid failures

#White_House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and #telecom companies

White House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and telecom companies The war game that the government and utilities hold every other year to simulate attacks on the power grid is being expanded this year to include big banks, Wall Street, and the telecommunications industry. The expansion of the GridEx IV security … Continue reading #White_House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and #telecom companies

White House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and telecom companies

White House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and telecom companies The war game that the government and utilities hold every other year to simulate attacks on the power grid is being expanded this year to include big banks, Wall Street, and the telecommunications industry. The expansion of the GridEx IV security … Continue reading White House expands power grid war to include banks, Wall Street and telecom companies

Trump huddles with national security staff on how to protect the electric grid

Trump huddles with national security staff on how to protect the electric grid President Trump met with his top national security advisers on Wednesday, along with energy industry leaders and top confidants, to discuss the cybersecurity threats facing the nation’s electric grid. Trump met with long-time head of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, … Continue reading Trump huddles with national security staff on how to protect the electric grid

A U.S. grid clear of 2016 attacks is hardly worry-free — NERC

A U.S. grid clear of 2016 attacks is hardly worry-free — NERC The interstate grid’s top regulators want a closer look at threats that could penetrate power companies and smart grid networks. The North American Electric Reliability Corp., in its “State of Reliability 2017” report, noted there were no cybersecurity attacks that took down parts … Continue reading A U.S. grid clear of 2016 attacks is hardly worry-free — NERC