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National Defense
August 2011
Zhen Zhang |
Cohesive Cybersecurity Policy Needed For Electric Grid Securing the electric grid is one of the key components of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States and increasing the country's resilience and recovery from such events.   |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
National Defense
March 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Power Companies Struggle to Maintain Defenses Against Cyber-Attacks When experts rank U.S. industries' abilities to ward off potentially damaging cyber-attacks, the electric utilities are normally near the bottom. |
National Defense
April 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
National Defense
September 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said. |
Home Theater
April 1, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Smart Meters Maybe Not So Smart Security holes may let hackers steal your juice. |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
InternetNews
April 8, 2009
Alex Goldman |
U.S. Electricity Grid Compromised The threat is real but, unfortunately, not new. What is new, say reports, is actual evidence of espionage. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
AP Report: U.S. Power Grid Subject To Repeated Foreign Hacks The U.S. power grid is subject to being hacked from abroad, and foreign hackers have gained remote access to American power operations about a dozen times over the last decade. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
National Defense
October 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Fears of Devastating Cyber-Attacks on Electric Grid, Critical Infrastructure Grow Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the United States faces "a major cyber-event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy and the everyday functioning of our society." |
InternetNews
March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
InternetNews
April 11, 2007
Michael Hickins |
IBM Jolts SOA to Save Energy IBM is helping electrical utilities re-energize their aging infrastructures. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Three Utility ETFs Worth a Look Here are three lesser known ETFs that offer unique exposure to the utility sector and may have slipped below many investors' radar screens. |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. |
CIO
June 26, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
Obama's Cybersecurity Push: What It Means for CIOs President Obama aims to fix U.S. cybersecurity, but can the feds hit a moving target? Not without private sector support and practical solutions. |
InternetNews
February 18, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Googling for the Smart Grid Fresh off the government's pledge of billions for a smart grid, Google and partner GE host a seminar imagining what a new energy regime might look like. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
S. Massoud Amin |
U.S. Electrical Grid Gets Less Reliable Since 1995, outages have steadily increased as R&D steadily declined |
National Defense
July 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
High-Tech Weapon Makers Set Sights on 'Smart Microgrid' Market Pentagon contractors are looking to transition their skills in assembling complex weapon systems into the nascent market of energy microgrids. |
CIO
May 15, 2003
Michael Schrage |
The Voodoo Economics Behind Utility Computing Before you sign up for pay-as-you-go, you need to understand how utilities can manipulate and hide the true costs of plugging in. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
National Defense
June 2013
Tim Larkins |
Threats and Opportunities Growing in Cybersecurity The federal government will spend about $10 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2013. That number could grow to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Elana Varon |
Think Federally, Secure Locally When the Pacific Northwest Economic Region needed a regional cybersecurity vulnerability assessment, it didn't run to the feds. Instead, the group developed its own exercise, called Blue Cascades, that explored what would happen if critical services like the electric grid or the Internet were lost. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun's Grid DDOS-Attacked Sun's public grid launch was hampered by denial-of-service attacks on the company's grid pilot. |
InternetNews
September 3, 2010 |
Cisco Snags Arch Rock in Smart Grid Play Cisco looks to advance its position in the burgeoning smart-grid market with the acquisition of Arch Rock, a firm specializing in wireless sensors that connect devices to a mesh network. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Steve Nguyen |
The Future of Home Automation In the end, the infrastructure that a service provider creates to reach the shell of a home will be the catalyst for manufacturers, service companies and others to create the automated products that may one day make the home automation market what we always thought it could be. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2009 |
U.S. Reviewing Cyber Threat to Power Grid Chinese researcher uses publicly available data to demonstrate how cyber terrorists could knockout entire West Coast grid with relative ease. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
Michael Kanellos |
Why Pick WiMax, Mesh Over Power Line? Cost. CenterPoint Energy thought about becoming an Internet service provider. Utilities and power providers, meanwhile, may have to help consumers with home are networks. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2010
Katherine Tweed |
Can Cellular Shake Its Stigma? Forget about high-cost, lack of coverage and security questions. Cellular is here to compete in the smart grid market. Or is it? |
InternetNews
September 17, 2009 |
Cisco: IPv6 and Smart Grid Make Sense Together Key to the smart grid are IP transport and security as Cisco makes a new push. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Three ETFs to Play the Coming Energy Storage Boom Reports suggest a looming energy-storage boom. |
Fast Company
April 2010 |
Smart but Early: Home Energy Management A sampling of the players jockeying for position in this nascent market. |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010 |
Smart Grid Inches its Way Toward Reality Next-generation energy system promises industry improved power quality and reliability. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2010
Mark Anderson |
WiMax for Smart Grids The wireless network is unpopular in smartphones but could succeed with smart grids |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Glenn Derene |
How Vulnerable is U.S. Infrastructure to a Major Cyber Attack? The next world war might not start with a bang, but with a blackout. |
National Defense
June 2011
Stew Magnuson |
When it Comes to Cybersecurity, the 'Who is Responsible for What?' Debate Continues Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government's collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Quanta Putting It Together With a growing backlog, big-name clients, and a federal mandate to improve power service, it doesn't look like the utility company is close to a peak in its business yet. Investors, take note. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Toby Shute |
The Smart Grid Means More Than Meters Reliability is also key to improving our electric infrastructure. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Leonard Klie |
Customer Interaction with Utilities via Social Media Is on the Rise New research also finds a growing number of utilities share information about service issues with customers via social media. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
New Spark In Utility Stocks Why the once-staid utility sector is generating breathtaking returns. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
Letters Micro vs. Macro... Neutron generators... Electric grid... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Marla Brill |
Powering Up Utility stocks are a lower-risk way to achieve incremental returns, says manager Mario Gabelli of the Gabelli Utilities Fund. |
