>>Number two, blackouts, is also a problem. It is well known that our power infrastructure is ripe for hackers and terrorists.
Well known, but never happens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3119845/posts
“The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.
“The attack was ‘the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred’ in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.”
Over a million people were without power here in SE Michigan last week due to a windstorm. At least one to twice a summer we are out for a day or 2 at a time. I look foward to the day when natural gas powered microturbines are how we supply our own power.
CC
It will happen more often in the next 10 yrs.
Power Quality and Internet of Things compromise one another as much as they help each other.