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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Katherine DeEmidio Ledesma, Dragos A 2021 review of cyber vulnerabilities in water systems, published in the journal Water , highlights the converging factors of increasingly AI-enhanced and internet-connected tools running more and bigger drinking water and wastewater systems. These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.” and the E.U.’s

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. Now that this review has been completed, the Sandia team has received follow-on funding to tackle some of these gaps. We are focused on larger impacts to critical infrastructure as we electrify more of the transportation industry. doi: 10.3390/en15113931.

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Policy Options for Expanding and Modernizing the US Power Grid

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Yang is the lead author of a 26-page paper from CCPP reviewing these challenges and exploring eleven policy options for addressing them. Our most abundant renewable energy resources are concentrated in remote regions that are often not linked, or only weakly connected, to the existing transmission network. Source: Yang, 2009.

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UC Riverside study to evaluate best ways to achieve California’s 100% renewable energy target

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State officials have approved requirements for the power grid to consist of 50% renewable energy by 2030. California has a largely untapped available renewable resource – biogas from dairies, landfills and wastewater treatment plants, which can be conditioned or upgraded to renewable natural gas.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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Renault also had a panel of experts review the report the ensure full compliance with ISO 14 030 norms related to LCA; the company also published that review report. Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential (kg Sb equivalent). consumption leading to resources and abiotic depletion. The review. consumption. ?.

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NIST releases final Smart Grid Framework 2.0

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An updated roadmap for the Smart Grid is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which recently finished reviewing and incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0. Further improvements and additions to the 1.0

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Mitsubishi Heavy says ground test validates wireless power transmission for space solar power systems; 10 kW sent 500m by microwave

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The on-ground rectifying antenna would collect the microwave beam and convert it to electricity to connect to commercial power grids. In the laser-based SSPS (L-SSPS), a solar condenser equipped with lenses or mirrors and laser-generator would be put into orbit. A laser beam would be sent to Earth-based hydrogen generating device.