Insights AC Power Analysis: Part 3, Cyber Resilience - Comments

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The discussion highlights the challenges of disrupting the power grid through cyber attacks, even if cybersecurity measures are compromised. It emphasizes that individual power utilities operate with their own control centers, where SCADA systems play a crucial role. The difficulty in adopting advanced systems like EMS and Economic Dispatch is noted, particularly due to dispatchers' reluctance to move away from traditional communication methods. The conversation reflects on the historical reliance on telephones for power management, questioning the extent of concern over cyber threats to grid stability. Overall, the insights underscore the complexity of integrating technology in power utilities and the resilience of the grid against cyber vulnerabilities.
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This article talks about difficulties in bringing down the power grid via hacking, even if all cyber security was defeated.
 
Fascinating and equally important!
 
Just as pertinent and beautifully written as the others. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.:smile:
 
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Inside a region are individual power utilities Each utility has a control center overseeing their own territory. The infamous SCADA systems that critics like to criticize mostly exist at this level.
The hardest part of implementing EMS and Economic Dispatch via SCADA at the utility I worked for back then was getting the dispatchers to use the system. Computers scared them and were too use to using telephones for buying and selling power; having the power plants ramp a schedule from 10 minutes before to 10 minutes after the top of the hour. Knowing they could control their territory with just telephones, I've never understood why people were so concerned about bringing down the grid by cyber attacks.
 
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