Berkeley Lab Leading the Way with New Cybersecurity Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) recently announced $39 million in funding for nine new National Laboratory projects to advance the cybersecurity of distributed energy resources (DERs), including two projects led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that will each receive $4.9 million in funding from CESER. The National Laboratory teams aim to improve real-time DER operation data analytics using artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and secure cloud-based solutions for DER applications.
One of those projects is developing a national-scale, privacy-preserving software platform designed to create a more secure power grid by allowing utilities to share relevant cybersecurity information in a way that addresses their privacy concerns. Amid a nationwide surge of cleaner, greener energy and the proliferation of DERs – such as rooftop solar panels and battery storage – the Berkeley Lab-led team headed by Sean Peisert, a senior scientist in the Scientific Data Division in Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area, is looking at new ways to support collaborative, privacy-preserving information sharing in a way that will enable rapid mitigation of threats to the power grid.
Read more at Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Research News.