Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP

“We don’t necessarily have the regulatory mechanisms in place that allow the regulators to be able to evaluate assets that are designed for those low-frequency but high-impact events.”

“It is time for a win for rural electric cooperative members nationwide who wish to pursue flexible, innovative energy solutions.”

“What we expect is a lot of cyber policies will be litigated in court. It’s trying to figure out attribution, and attribution is difficult to prove.”

“Risk management in this space falls into three large buckets. First people, then process. Have we built an appropriate process that uses people and has sufficient oversight and controls? Then it’s technology.”

“One of the events was a cyberattack on GPS systems found in vehicles. This threat was taken from a real government alert. Vehicles started shutting down.”

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies This Month: The growing fleet is a major part of our storm-response toolbox and as technology continues to change, the new vehicles are designed and built to be upgraded over the years. It’s an investment and we project to get up to thirty years of use for each new vehicle

“Grid resiliency is deeply intertwined with the influences of other infra­structures, and this impacts how we value grid improvements.”

“The simple, understandable definition of resiliency is: The ability to withstand a high impact, low probability event with little or no customer outages.”

“There are issues such as whether there are poles igniting or a thick smoke that could cause arcing. We also rely on what our power company’s first responders are telling us about the facilities in that area.”

Keystone Policy Center and Dentons hosted conversations with Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley, Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz, CPS Energy general counsel and board secretary Shanna Ramirez, Dentons’ Allison Bender.