Electric Utilities Focus on Power Grid Work Over Power Plants
According to an article published in聽, utilities are investing billions of dollars in the聽power grid聽to ward off attacks on America’s hyper-connected society. Just last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security detailed how聽Russian聽hackers could have caused major blackouts had they not been more focused on reconnaissance. Meanwhile, power companies are also focusing their investments on software upgrades, switches and wires to enable flexibility. After decades of conservation, the need for big聽generation聽projects has fallen. Coal-fired plants will more likely be replaced with cleaner-burning natural gas.聽
