3 Reasons to Invest in Grid Security via GRID Institute

A Professor at the GRID Institute at the  University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering spells out 3 reasons to invest in grid infrastructure:

• infrastructure is aging
  • Look to the Atlanta airport blackout to see the decay of the grid is a larger problem than hackers
• our economy  is critically reliant on a reliable supply of electricity
• today’s demands on the grid, see solar uploading energy, forces the grid to operate in a way for which it was never intended

The solution:

• smaller regional “microgrids,”  that will offer a method of building greater resiliency, reliability, and security in our power infrastructure +
• A national high voltage direct current (HVDC) system

The Hill | A vulnerable power grid: Let’s invest in critical national infrastructure