This document discusses energy security and microgrids for utilities, communities, and the military. It notes that the Department of Defense is a major consumer of energy, using around 117 billion barrels of oil annually. Various legislation and mandates aim to increase the DoD's use of renewable energy to 25% by 2025. Microgrids and a smarter electric grid can help the DoD meet these renewable energy targets while also improving energy security at military installations. The document cautions that increased connectivity in complex energy systems may introduce new security risks that require approaches like critical infrastructure protection.
Module 10 - Section 2: ICTs, the environment and climate change & Section 3: ...Richard Labelle
Innovation in ICTs can have a significant impact in mitigating the impact of climate change and have an important role to play in facilitating and managing adaptation to climate change.
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
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Presented by: Flavio Cucchietti
SESSION V: PLENARY – TECHNICAL METHODS
This plenary session will introduce the participants to the climate change impacts under the context of the less than 2 °C global temperature limit, and the data, methods and tools for assessing climate risks and vulnerabilities in this context. It will also provide latest approaches on economic appraisal for the formulation and implementation of NAPs, methods and tools and reflections on the science-policy interaction. It will end with a talk on how best to utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support adaptation planning and implementation.
Module 10 - Section 2: ICTs, the environment and climate change & Section 3: ...Richard Labelle
Innovation in ICTs can have a significant impact in mitigating the impact of climate change and have an important role to play in facilitating and managing adaptation to climate change.
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
ICTs as a key technology to help countries adapt to climate changeNAP Events
Presented by: Flavio Cucchietti
SESSION V: PLENARY – TECHNICAL METHODS
This plenary session will introduce the participants to the climate change impacts under the context of the less than 2 °C global temperature limit, and the data, methods and tools for assessing climate risks and vulnerabilities in this context. It will also provide latest approaches on economic appraisal for the formulation and implementation of NAPs, methods and tools and reflections on the science-policy interaction. It will end with a talk on how best to utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support adaptation planning and implementation.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.
~ Kevin Mitnick
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Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Cybersecurity Considerations for Power Substation SCADA Systems Using IEC 618...Power System Operation
Because of recent cyber-attacks and threats against power utilities, cybersecurity continues to increase in importance and be on the minds of substation design engineers.
One major concern for power distribution utilities is “ensuring that all communication protocols performing control functions and data acquisition for substations are properly secured. With IEC-61850 being one of the most widely used communications protocols by utilities today, particularly in distribution automation (DA),” increases the need for greater security in communication protocols. [1]
IEC-61850 is also becoming the preferred standard for substation design and operations due to the common framework and object-oriented design for point names as well as the increased performance and lower lifecycle cost of SCADA systems utilizing the methodology and protocols. This paper will discuss major vulnerabilities and cybersecurity considerations that require proper analysis when designing and implementing a secure IEC-61850 standard-based SCADA system within a power substation. However, this paper will not discuss implementation methods or provide implementation concepts.
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There's a Crippling Cyber Attack Coming Your Way! Are we prepared to stop it?Brian K. Dickard
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1. Energy Security in Electric Power Grids:
Utility, Community, Military Micro-Grids
Mike Coop
mcoop@thinksmartgrid.com
2. Panelists
• Mike Coop, Founder/CTO,
ThinkSmartGrid
• Ralph Martinez, Director, UTEP RCES
• Salvador Cordero, Engineer, UTEP RCES
3. Military As Energy Consumer
• Two main types of DoD energy use—operational energy
and installation energy
• Operational energy is that required for training, moving,
and sustaining military forces and weapons platforms for
military operations, and includes energy used by tactical
power systems and generators and weapons platforms
• Installation energy (a.k.a. facility energy) is energy used
at installations that isn’t operational energy
• Roughly 75% of DoD energy use is operational; 25% is
installation energy
4. Energy isn’t Cheap
• DoD is likely the largest organizational user of petroleum
in the world, consuming ~117 billion barrels of oil in
FY2011
• DoD’s energy use in FY2010 accounted for ~80% of the
federal government’s overall use, and represented 0.8%
of total U.S. energy consumption
• Increasing our nation’s energy security is of vital
concern; today’s discussion will focus on DoD installation
energy, and the role a smarter grid will play
8. Legislation on DoD Energy Use
• 2005 Energy Policy Act established renewable energy
mandates, now at no less than 7.5% for FY2013 and
beyond
• EISA 2007 requires a 30% reduction in federal building
energy use by FY2015
• National Defense Authorization Act mandates at least
25% renewable energy use in FY2025 and beyond
• The White House has mandated 1 GW of renewable
energy for each of the uniform services: Air Force (by
2016); Navy/Marines (by 2020); Army (by 2025)
12. Money Leads to Opportunity
Army Corps of Engineers issued a
Multiple-Award Task Order
(MATOC) RFP for $7 billion in total
contract capacity to procure
reliable, locally generated,
renewable and alternative energy
through power purchase
agreements over a period of 30
years or less from renewable
energy plants that are constructed
and operated by contractors using
private sector financing
13. Money Leads to Opportunity
The combination of an
attractive target (DoD) plus White House says 1 of its unclassified networks was
attractive interconnected
cyberattacked, says effort was repelled
By Associated Press, Published: October 1
applications (Smart Grid) WASHINGTON — The White House is acknowledging an attempt
to infiltrate its computer system, but says it thwarted the effort and
necessitates new security
that no classified networks were threatened.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the White
House is equipped with mitigation measures that identified the
approaches (CIP versus attack, isolated it and prevented its spread.
He said there was no indication that any data was removed.
DIARMF, for instance) …
News of the most recent attack came as the Obama administration
is preparing an executive order with new rules to protect U.S.
computer systems. After Congress failed this summer to pass a
comprehensive cybersecurity bill, the White House said it would
use executive branch authorities to improve the nation’s computer
Where money flows, crime will security, especially for networks tied to essential U.S. industries,
such as electric grids, water plants, and banks.
follow
14. When Things Go Wrong…
In complex industrial, space,
and military systems, the
normal accident generally (not
always) means that the
interactions are not only
unexpected, but are
incomprehensible for some
critical period of time
Complex systems fail complexly
