On the agenda: Granholm toured several facilities at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC), including the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II site, where EBR-II’s iconic dome, now known as the National Reactor Innovation Center’s Demonstration of Operational Microreactor Experiments (DOME), is being prepared to test a new generation of reactors, including the Department of Defense’s Project Pele. After my first in-person visit to INL, I’m confident that the bright minds here are securing our clean energy future and cementing our nation’s spot as a global leader in science and innovation.” “INL is pioneering emerging technologies, like advanced nuclear reactors, to harness the carbon-free nuclear power that will be essential to meeting President Biden’s climate goals. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will ultimately determine if those pilots are a success before greenlighting their expansion.“INL’s clean energy and national security research will be critical to delivering on this administration’s promise to make energy more secure, affordable, reliable, and resilient for all Americans,” Granholm said. “Historically that’s all been on premise, so we’re piloting moving that to the cloud.” “Right now Western Area Power Administration is working with us to enable their resilience through putting some of their services and monitoring in the cloud,” said Ann Dunkin, chief information officer at DOE. “That is a big effort that we’re undertaking.”ĬESER works with more than 3,000 electric utilities heat, oil and natural gas companies and renewable energy companies to prepare for, mitigate and respond to threats from natural disasters to cyberattacks.Īt the same time DOE is providing intelligence and forensic analysis services to its four Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), which sell hydropower to utilities serving 65 million people across 35 states. “How do we use the inherent properties of the grid, in terms of sensors and analytics, and marry it up with cyber intelligence?” said Puesh Kumar, director of CESER, during an AFCEA Bethesda event Thursday. As a result, the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response now plans to fund pilots migrating clean water systems to the cloud, municipal utilities and rural cooperatives, and threat-information sharing through a forthcoming Energy Threat Analysis Center. Historically the laboratory has been involved with nuclear research.ĭOE committed $16 million in 2021 to connecting solar and wind energy sources and electric vehicle charging stations to the electric grid, but previously cybersecurity was an afterthought. Idaho National Laboratory is one of the Department of Energy’s national labs, and is managed by the Battelle Energy Alliance. The strategy sets out the department’s core priorities for protecting the energy industry.
The action plan will build on the National Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy released by the Department of Energy in June and ask organizations what they can do to help secure the grid of the future and contribute to standards bodies and frameworks. Idaho National Laboratory is developing an action plan with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure utility companies and the rest of the energy sector use cyber-informed engineering when connecting to the electric grid.
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