CIGRE Created New Working Groups
CIGRE announced the creation of new working groups in study committees B3, B4, C2 and C6.
Relay protection, SCADA, Metering, and Cybersecurity for electrical infrastructure.
CIGRE announced the creation of new working groups in study committees B3, B4, C2 and C6.
The webinar Russian Government Cyber Activity Targeting Energy and Other Critical Infrastructure Sectors dedicated to activities performed by hacker groups associated with the Russian government was held on July 23, 2018 with the help of the Department of National Security and US-CERT. We publish the webinar observation by cybersecurity expert Alexei Ivanov (Ekra).
The EN100 Ethernet communication module and SIPROTEC 5 relays are affected by security vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to conduct a Denial‑of‑Service attack over the network.
Several vulnerabilities, including ones rated high severity, had been discovered in management and configuration tools from power grid protection company SEL. The vendor released software updates to address the flaws.
The Brainstorm block is a collection of industry experts’ opinions on actual problems. It allows specialists to look at different problems from different perspectives.
According to the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Russia was probably behind a widespread cyber attack on German energy providers disclosed a fortnight ago.
CIGRE announced the creation of new working groups in a number of study committees.
Rosseti, the Russian distribution grid operator, and ABB agreed to cooperate in order to carry out next generation digital grid projects in Russia, including those with advanced digital technologies of grid operating process automation.
General Electric announced that it will provide the Global Thermal Generation division of Enel (Europe’s largest power utility in terms of market capitalization) with its Predix-based software solutions to be deployed as predictive diagnostic tool in 14 of Enel’s thermal power plants located in Europe and Latin America, supporting their digitalization.
The draft of the first amendment to IEC 62351-3 (“Power System Security”) was published — IEC 62351-3/AMD1 ED1 (57/1894/CDV).
This paper summarizes the experience gained during a series of practical cybersecurity assessments of various components of Europe’s smart electrical grids.
The company will supply a $16 million hybrid substation for a wind farm. It will be the first hybrid substation in the country.
The Stanford researchers published a paper describing a program they built to model Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) deployment in a way that will result in the lowest cost to grid operators.