Electricity Today T&D Magazine

Currently, utilities, facing many pressures, are expected to change more rapidly than in previous years. Societal pressures to reduce emissions and increase the use of renewables while supporting electric vehicles drive in one direction. The newfound focus of international cyber attackers on the electric grid as a key element of the critical infrastructure drive in another direction.

Together, the aforementioned societal pressures yield a veritable flood of utility grid modernization efforts that embrace internet protocol (IP) networking technologies as new enabling cornerstones to replace existing legacy, non-interconnected, “or siloed”, point-to-point power control and information network architectures. These “Smart Grid”...