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The future grid is full of data. That worries cyber experts Source: By Christian Vasquez, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Security experts warn that clean energy developers and nation-backed hackers are often interested in the same types of granular grid data. Regulators, utilities and renewable energy companies are debating whether to make such information public. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration);Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr(drafting sketch); MaxPixel(turbines and transmission lines); Freepik (cyber)
The demand for public grid data to spur renewable energy development has raised a thorny question: Can utilities and regulators shield sensitive information from hackers while speeding up the transition to clean power?
By Brenda Erdahl
Wright County Commissioners expressed several times since initiating a temporary moratorium on the construction and development of solar farms in the county that they want the process of revamping the aging solar farm ordinance in question done as quickly as possible. To that end, work has been moving right along.
At their Feb. 2 County Board meeting commissioners approved forming an advisory committee to take a closer look the ordinance that was put in place five plus years ago that may no longer afford Wright County residents the protection they deserve.
At their most recent meeting, Tuesday Feb. 16, members of the work group were named with the intent to hold the first meeting on Feb. 24.