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Your Utility’s Focus for 2013? Cyber Security
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How should electric utilities be adjusting to the 21st century? It seems with the explosion of smart grid technology across the country, and the world, utilities will now be accountable for something that has previously not been an issue: cyber security.[read more]
The Smart Grid’s Cyber-Security Questions
The stakes are steep. The challenge is nuanced and evolving. And, at this point, there areat least as many as questions as there are answers about how the job should be carriedout.Together, those factors make cyber-security one of the most talked-about topics in theSmart Grid conversation worldwide.In overlaying the electricity-delivery...[read more]
NRC rule ~ No rabbits out of a hat
Dale Klein says the agency must be clear about what it does and how it explains its decisions to the publicDale Klein, a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and its former chairman under the previous administration, has two objectives for his agency. He said in a wide-ranging interview with this blog on Sept 24 that...[read more]
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