Author: Michael Allen

In the past decade, cyber-attacks on Europe’s power infrastructure have intensified so much that energy companies, experts and politicians called for help. Researchers came together to boost the resilience of European energy networks.The International Energy Agency warned in a November 2023 report that the average number of cyber-attacks against utilities worldwide more than doubled between 2020 and 2022. It singled out electricity grids, which are increasingly switching to digital technology.“The technologies now deployed along electric grids make them vulnerable to issues with communication and information technology,” said Jesús Torres, an expert in smart grids at the Spanish technology centre CIRCE.Defending the…