The drive for the UK’s low carbon future is demanding enormous changes in our entire electricity system. Not only is there sustained, rapid growth in inherently variable renewables, generation is no longer centralized but can be distributed over a wide geographical area, so that the traditional one-way flow model is being replaced by multi-directional flows.
If energy networks aren’t concerned about the threat of terrorism via cyber attack, they should be. This was the blunt message from General Keith Alexander, former first commander of United States cyber command and former director of the National Security Agency, as he spoke to delegates at Accenture’s international utilities and energy conference earlier this year.
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Traditionally, buildings have been thought of as static assets. Once they are constructed, the only work to be done is routine maintenance over the building’s useful life. But today, asset owners – particularly those in manufacturing and heavy industrial processes – are beginning to appreciate that assets are in fact dynamic entities that require closer monitoring and control after construction than just traditional maintenance.
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