Quarterly Issue 3
Issue 3 - July 2020

Power Points | EET&D's Community of Experts: Here to Guide Us Through COVID-19

By Elisabeth Monaghan, Editor in Chief

The electric energy sector has been affected by the pandemic in ways that may take years to recognize or understand. To get a pulse on where the industry is at this time, several articles in this Q3 issue of EET&D address how utilities can rebound from the pandemic and prepare for whatever new crises may come our way.
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The Grid Transformation Forum | On Storm Preparedness and Resiliency in a Pandemic Industry
Utilities adapt for operational and business continuity

By Farnoosh Rahmatian

As the electric power industry adjusts to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to feature this article by Farnoosh Rahmatian, past chair, IEEE Power & Energy Society Technical Council, President, NuGrid Power
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Preparing Utilities for the 2020 Storm Season Amidst COVID-19

By TK Subramanian, Tata Consultancy Services

The warehouse and stores at utilities are at the center of all materials and inventory-related activities, especially during the storm season, when the focus is “keeping the lights on.” Utilities plan for this eventuality and focus on keeping the line crews and repairs personnel supplied with construction and maintenance parts and equipment. The situation during the coronavirus pandemic has been reversed somewhat, with even the normal activities at a standstill.
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Why Energy Infrastructure Investments Are the Cornerstone to Economic Recovery

By Ted Ko, Stem, Inc.

In the throes of COVID-19, power is the common denominator that ensures vital businesses can remain open, and ventilators continue to work for patients suffering from the virus. Power is also key to keeping the devices charged and servers running, which enables students to learn remotely, employees to work from home and commerce to continue.
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The War of Currents
How DC Technology Lost the Battle 150 Years Ago, but May Win the War in a Liberalized Energy Market

By Rik W. De Doncker, IEEE PES

To cope with the new landscape of dispersed, volatile generation sources, measures must be taken to provide a robust and secure energy supply of electrical energy. In particular, next to fully automated CHP power plants and demand-side management systems, as well as sector coupling and various sorts of energy storage.
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Guest Editorial | Five Tips on Presenting IT/OT Security to the Board

By Phil Neray, CyberX

The responsibility to implement adequate safety- and security-related controls lies upon CISOs and CIOs to take the initiative to guide their boards and leadership teams on how to best ensure their organization is prepared to mitigate security risks, rapidly detect and respond to ransomware and other intrusions and have controls in place to fully support the business need for digitization, without sacrificing security.
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Guest Editorial | Accelerating Digital Transformation Amid COVID-19

By John Villali, IDC

The COVID pandemic has brought heightened awareness to the importance of physical and industrial automation, enterprise automation such as robotic process automation (RPA), along with edge and cloud computing. These are all technology investments that can improve efficiencies, safety measures as well as save costs in these current economic times and in the long run.
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Security Sessions | Boosting Cyber Security to Ensure Utility/Grid Resiliency

By Don Boxley, DH2i

At the end of April, with the global pandemic in full swing, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published a prescient warning. titled “Why COVID-19 is making utilities more vulnerable to cyberattack—and what to do about it.”
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