Yesterday the House
met in an extended pro forma session. Because of the weekend snow storm the
scheduled pro-forma session had to include postponing some legislative actions
that had been scheduled for this week to next week. There were, however, three
bills introduced and one of those may be of tangential interest to readers of
this blog:
This bill
(and yes the GPO does have the official copy on line) proposes to require the
DOE Secretary to address issues related to “clean distributed energy
technologies” (energy technologies that are located on the customer site
operating on the customer side of the electric meter and are interconnected
with the electric grid).
The only reason that I am mentioning this bill is that,
while the bill recognizes that “new advances in intelligent sensing and
simulation and control technologies” will aid the integration of clean
distributed energy technologies, there is no mention of the cybersecurity
vulnerabilities that such technologies bring to the electric grid networks.
This is very disappointing.
Any way this will be the last mention of this bill as it
does not appear that Castor has enough political influence to get this bill
considered in committee.
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