how many ways can a grid be attacked?

A U.S. House panel heard testimony on grid reliability. There was talk about the usual grid suspects like hackers, physical attacks, attacks on pipelines that fuel generation, and inverter based resources. Dare we ask what inverter based resources are? It’s solar, wind, and battery assets. By Utility Dive’s analysis these are ” increasingly used on the bulk power system and tied to high voltage transmission systems.” As such, they are a new vulnerability for the grid.

Utility Dive | House panel discusses grid threats: China, Russia, inverter-based resources, physical attacks