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Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:21:45 -0800
AUSTIN -- Last summer's record heat pushed the Texas power grid to the brink. Many of us sat comfortably in our air conditioning without realizing we were on the edge of rolli......
Texas' Electric Capacity Under Scru...
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:45 -0800
Last summer's record heat pushed the Texas power grid to the brink. Many of us sat comfortably in our air conditioning without realizing we were on the edge of rolling blackou......
Texas Power Plants Not Generating Enoug...
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:04:40 -0800
Is it time for Texas to abandon its power grid system? That's one option being tossed around in Austin, at a State Affairs Committee hearing.......
Advanced power-grid model finds low-cos...
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:03:33 -0800
The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable a......
Power grid updates left system vulnerab...
Published:Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:30:55 -0800
A rush by the Energy Department to use stimulus money to modernize the country’s power grid has left the system vulnerable to cyberattacks, the agency’s internal watchdog foun......


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Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:21:45 -0800  
AUSTIN -- Last summer's record heat pushed the Texas power grid to the brink. Many of us sat comfortably in our air conditioning without realizing we were on the edge of rolling blackouts....

Texas' Electric Capacity Under Scrutiny
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:45 -0800  
Last summer's record heat pushed the Texas power grid to the brink. Many of us sat comfortably in our air conditioning without realizing we were on the edge of rolling blackouts...

Texas Power Plants Not Generating Enough Electricity
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:04:40 -0800  
Is it time for Texas to abandon its power grid system? That's one option being tossed around in Austin, at a State Affairs Committee hearing....

Advanced power-grid model finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West
Published:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:03:33 -0800  
The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers....

Power grid updates left system vulnerable to cyberattacks, auditors say
Published:Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:30:55 -0800  
A rush by the Energy Department to use stimulus money to modernize the country’s power grid has left the system vulnerable to cyberattacks, the agency’s internal watchdog found. Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman found “shortcomings” in the cybersecurity plans of more than a third of the utility companies that got federal funding for “smart grid” projects — from incomplete strategies to ......

OH GREAT: Smart Grids May Stupidly Leave Power Grid Open To Cyber Attacks
Published:Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:03:11 -0800  
From the invite-a-hacker-home category....

Power-Grid Cyber Attack Seen Leaving Millions in Dark for Months
Published:Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:54:02 -0800  
A blackout that swept parts of North America in August 2003, leaving 50 million people in the dark for as long as four days, provides a glimpse of the havoc a cyber attack could inflict on the nation’s power grid....

Solar storm buffets Earth: How protected is the US power grid?
Published:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:17:48 -0800  
Power-grid operators nationwide are on high alert Tuesday as gale-force geomagnetic winds from a solar storm sweep across the Earth – creating potentially dangerous electrical currents that, if severe enough, could damage the US power grid....

Corn Belt Power Cooperative Selects Exalt Microwave Backhaul Systems to Connect Smart Grid Across Northern Iowa
Published:Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:35:00 -0800  
Exalt Communications today announced that Corn Belt Power Cooperative, a generation and transmission electric cooperative providing power in 41 northern Iowa counties, has deployed Exalt microwave backhaul systems to consolidate its legacy communications network and better manage the traffic load on its smart grid and SCADA systems....
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