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New consensus in cybersecurity

As power systems integrate more digital and inverter-based devices, the guidelines and technical standards for these resources are evolving, and none as quickly and urgently as cybersecurity standards. New approaches to cyber defense are now needed to protect more interconnected systems with diverse owners, manufacturers, and system architectures. However, current cybersecurity standards for energy devices are still patchy. Upcoming efforts are aimed at changing that, reports NREL’s Connor O’Neil.

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pv magazine

02 Nov 2021

Image: NREL/Dennis Schroeder

Since the turn of the millennium, when utilities first felt the strain of a sudden rise in distributed energy resources (DERs), technical standards have served to bring industry into consensus around common methods for grid modernization. For example, in the United States, a breakthrough for renewables came in 2003 with the release of Standard …

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