power grid

DENVER — At this year’s IEEE T&D Conference (Booth #1242), Siemens announced a strengthened digital T&D portfolio across key areas including substations, transformer maintenance and grid planning. Leveraging Siemens’ global focus on the growth of the Internet of Things in industry and infrastructure, the company is incorporating digitally-driven solutions into its grid-facing businesses including digital […]

EEI Convention keynote speaker Keren Elazari urged electric utilities to partner with “friendly hackers.”

Experts testifying during a Senate hearing on critical infrastructure security on May 18 were at odds about how vulnerable the electric grid is to a variety of threats. “The Chinese are already in our power grid. The Russians are already inside our power grid. They may lack the motivation—because of the interrelationship that we have with […]

The societal impact of a “Black Sky Day”—a term used by electric infrastructure security experts when discussing a collapse of the North American power grid—would be devastating, according to Dr. Daniel Baker, distinguished professor of Planetary and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Baker testified before two subcommittees of the U.S. House of […]

When a large electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event occurs—which, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), there is “100% certainty” will happen at some time in the future—as many as 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. could die. Johnson, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, […]