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The Feds Are Studying How Fast The Grid Could Bounce Back After A Cyberattack
The Trump administration is vetting the electric grid’s ability to quickly bounce back from a massive cyberattack amid speculation Russian agents have been targeting U.S. power plants.
Officials at the Department of Energy are crafting an exercise called “Liberty Eclipse” to “simulate the painstaking process of re-energizing the power grid while squaring off against simultaneous cyberattack,” E&E News wrote in an Aug. 3 report. The exercise will take place in November on Plum Island, a small island located in New York.
“It’s in our national security interest to continue to protect these sources of energy and to deliver them around the world,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry said at a cybersecurity conference in New York in early August. “Taking care of that infrastructure, from the standpoint of protecting it from cyberattacks — I don’t think it’s ever been more important than it is today.”
The exercise comes as natural gas production has taken up the primary source of energy production in the U.S. The increase in natural gas-fired power generation has complicated reliability testing, according to grid reliability consultant David Hilt.
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The Trump administration is vetting the electric grid’s ability to quickly bounce back from a massive cyberattack amid speculation Russian agents have been targeting U.S. power plants.
Officials at the Department of Energy are crafting an exercise called “Liberty Eclipse” to “simulate the painstaking process of re-energizing the power grid while squaring off against simultaneous cyberattack,” E&E News wrote in an Aug. 3 report. The exercise will take place in November on Plum Island, a small island located in New York.
“It’s in our national security interest to continue to protect these sources of energy and to deliver them around the world,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry said at a cybersecurity conference in New York in early August. “Taking care of that infrastructure, from the standpoint of protecting it from cyberattacks — I don’t think it’s ever been more important than it is today.”
The exercise comes as natural gas production has taken up the primary source of energy production in the U.S. The increase in natural gas-fired power generation has complicated reliability testing, according to grid reliability consultant David Hilt.
More at....The Feds Are Studying How Fast The Grid Could Bounce Back After A Cyberattack