In this sixth article in a series focusing on the need for improved information assurance and cyber situational awareness in the electric power industry, we continue a survey of government and ...

Researchers have successfully demonstrated an open-source supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system designed to withstand attacks and compromises on the power grid. The ...

As the U.S. bulk power system continues to focus on distributed energy resources (DERs) for more of our overall electricity needs, the ability of the grid operators, power marketers, and reliability ...

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a comprehensive new contract by Dairyland Power Cooperative to upgrade and replace its Energy Management System (EMS) as well as its ...

The ability to monitor and control distributed generation assets, on-site or from remote locations, continues to become more efficient and sophisticated. SCADA software for power control systems ...

SCADA systems have long played a role in the power sector, managing and monitoring various processes and equipment in traditional power-generating settings. Now, the changing landscape of energy ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

Hitachi Energy is urging customers of its MicroSCADA X SYS600 product for monitoring and controlling utility power systems to immediately upgrade to a newly released version to mitigate multiple ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have an important role on automation projects. Though a lot has changed in 60 years, not many improvements have been made to SCADA systems in ...

Utilities that are replacing their aging remote terminal units (RTUs) and SCADA systems are doing so to ensure system reliability, improve usability and enhance future scalability – taking advantage ...

In 2015 and 2016, hackers caused massive power outages in Ukraine during one of the coldest times of the year. The December 2015 attack, which left 225,000 Ukrainians without electricity for the ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has introduced an advanced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to enhance the monitoring and management of the national power grid. This ...