May 10th, 2024
While many Latin American and Caribbean countries have embraced hydropower and other renewable energy sources, they remain vulnerable to climate risks that threaten the quality and reliability of the services they provide, and in turn, the livelihoods of the communities they serve. Costa Rica’s Instituto Costarricense de Electridad (ICE) and Colombia’s Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) are two regional utilities working to navigate these complex issues while simultaneously building organizational momentum for climate action.
April 11th, 2024
As utilities rapidly expand electric grids and prepare for transitions from centralized to distributed grids and creating new interconnections, consideration of cybersecurity requirements is paramount. Transmission system operators, distribution system operators, and market operators must incorporate distributed energy resources into the electric grid and accommodate independent power producers, generally, but this creates new communication and control requirements which must be secure.
May 22nd, 2024
*The SEC has stayed implementation pending further court review.
April 5th, 2024
USEA offers a unique remote briefing from the perspective of the U.S. auto sector, and experts in electric grids, the placement of EV charging stations to meet market demand, and increasing efficiency and reducing traffic.
April 25th, 2024
This webinar focuses on how procurement in the energy sector can be leveraged to strengthen cybersecurity across TSOs, DSOs, and generation. Topics explored include how systems associated with managing energy infrastructure, like SCADA and other industrial controls systems, energy market applications, advanced metering infrastructure and billing systems can be made more resilient by embedding cybersecurity specifications in procurement. Speakers will consider how existing standards can be implemented to guide procurements through the lifecycle of operations.
March 21st, 2024
This webinar focuses on developing and maintaining organizational cybersecurity governance and the best practices on policies and procedures to address supply chain risk management. The webinar will highlight typical models for managing cybersecurity (e.g., the role of a CISO or CSO) and level of visibility into cybersecurity risks from the senior management to technical staff.
March 7th, 2024
An incident response plan (IRP) is an essential tool for utilities to prepare for an event and can help drive the utility’s overall cybersecurity activities. This webinar will discuss how utilities should incorporate supply chain cybersecurity considerations into an IRP: What are the typical steps to developing the incident response plan from identifying scenarios, identifying critical utility systems/assets, identifying supporting systems/assets, calculating business impacts, using existing risk analysis, and developing and testing playbooks.
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