Vulnerability of SCADA Systems Underscore Urgent Need to Secure Utility Supply Chains
Regulatory Courage Required
Ensuring the safe, secure, resilient, and efficient delivery of utility services is an essential task.
Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP
EPRI Innovating Cyber Security Metrics
Standardizing for Grid Resilience
EPRI developed an initiative to establish standard metrics that any utility can adopt, track, and make meaningful comparisons across the industry.
Cyber Threats, Emerging Defenses
NARUC, NASUCA, EPRI, Utilities, Security Firms on Cyber
At the Utility Infrastructure Security Conference in Connecticut, NARUC, NASUCA, EPRI, utilities, and security firms discuss cyber.
Accelerating Generation Changes Make Assuring Reliability More Complex
A NERC Perspective
Assuring the reliability of the bulk-power system in North America requires identifying challenges and formulating appropriate solutions to a rapidly evolving generation-resource mix.
As the Electric Reliability Organization, NERC is charged with assuring the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid. As such, NERC conducts annual, seasonal and special reliability assessments to identify and analyze trends or potential risks.
More Efficient Way to Help Low Income Families
Doing Well, Doing Good
We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift that we in energy efficiency thought was nearly impossible: behavior change.
Missing an Opportunity for Building Systems Efficiency?
Systems Efficiency Initiative
An area with high potential for scaling up energy savings is utility-led programs that incorporate systems efficiency approaches.
State-of-the-Art Wildfire Protection
Challenged by Broader Resilience Responsibility
“It is incumbent to innovate on how we can reduce the probability of a wildfire ignition.”
Managing Electric Grid's Cyber Security Risk
EPRI Podcast Summary
Building multiple security countermeasures can protect utility assets, but this can be a large order.
Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Reliability and Security
Challenging the Rules
Fighting the established approach takes data. Lots of data.
Who Should Pay for Resilient Power System?
CROPS Determines the Best Measures
Local power customers, regional, state and federal entities should share responsibility and costs.