DARPA's Power Grid Restoration Project

[Duke]

DARPA's Rapid Power Grid Restoration Tech Goes Live - Breaking Defense

Some of the tech built to quickly restore power after a cyberattack is now operational on parts of the U.S. grid, with more deployments to follow. This week's news of RedEcho shows, yet again, it can't happen soon enough.

breakingdefense.com

Another of Noory's favorite C2C subjects, although the article talks about restoring the grid after a cyber attack. No mention of a solar flare or nuclear attack.

 

[Debi]

DARPA's Rapid Power Grid Restoration Tech Goes Live - Breaking Defense

Some of the tech built to quickly restore power after a cyberattack is now operational on parts of the U.S. grid, with more deployments to follow. This week's news of RedEcho shows, yet again, it can't happen soon enough.

breakingdefense.com

Another of Noory's favorite C2C subjects, although the article talks about restoring the grid after a cyber attack. No mention of a solar flare or nuclear attack.

On this one Noory and I agree. We do need to harden the grid. We saw what happened in Texas for a week.

 

[Debi]

US Air Force is guarding against electromagnetic pulse attacks. Should we worry?

A U.S. Air Force base in Texas has taken the first steps to guard against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. But what, exactly, is an EMP, and how big is the threat?

www.livescience.com

 

[Lynne]

Hardening the Grid is essential to our existence. It’s the one thing we can do to prevent a disaster and yet we fiddle away.