German Intelligence Sees Russia behind Hack of Energy Companies
According to the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Russia was probably behind a widespread cyber attack on German energy providers disclosed a fortnight ago.
Relay protection, SCADA, Metering, and Cybersecurity for electrical infrastructure.
According to the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Russia was probably behind a widespread cyber attack on German energy providers disclosed a fortnight ago.
CIGRE announced the creation of new working groups in a number of study committees.
Rosseti, the Russian distribution grid operator, and ABB agreed to cooperate in order to carry out next generation digital grid projects in Russia, including those with advanced digital technologies of grid operating process automation.
General Electric announced that it will provide the Global Thermal Generation division of Enel (Europe’s largest power utility in terms of market capitalization) with its Predix-based software solutions to be deployed as predictive diagnostic tool in 14 of Enel’s thermal power plants located in Europe and Latin America, supporting their digitalization.
The draft of the first amendment to IEC 62351-3 (“Power System Security”) was published — IEC 62351-3/AMD1 ED1 (57/1894/CDV).
This paper summarizes the experience gained during a series of practical cybersecurity assessments of various components of Europe’s smart electrical grids.
The company will supply a $16 million hybrid substation for a wind farm. It will be the first hybrid substation in the country.
The Stanford researchers published a paper describing a program they built to model Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) deployment in a way that will result in the lowest cost to grid operators.
Enel signed a two-year agreement with Amber Kinetics, the US-based start-up born out of an initiative of professors and researchers from UC Berkeley, with the aim of jointly assessing the start-up’s innovative “flywheel” storage technology, which is an electromechanical system consisting of a large rotating mass able to store energy.
The pace of adoption for electric cars over the next few years “could be surprising” and changing the global energy and auto industries faster than people expect, said Enel Chief Executive Officer Francesco Starace in an interview with Bloomberg.
Eskom and Électricité de France (EDF) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend peer cooperation in the fields of transmission and distribution of electricity.
By 2018, utilities should see significant improvement in smart glasses, helmets, and other augmented reality devices, concludes an EPRI study.
DONG Energy has decided to retire «Vindeby», the world’s first offshore wind farm, which 25 years ago marked the birth of the offshore wind industry.