NERC weighs in on protocols to tighten cybersecurity risks posed by supply chain

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A new North American Electric Reliability Corp. report recommends expanding the application of reliability standards aimed at managing cybersecurity supply chain risks to two additional categories of assets within the bulk electric system. As NERC noted, the electric industry’s “supply chains for information and communications technology and industrial control systems are long and multidimensional, involving numerous parties in a multitude of countries across the globe.” This web of vendors, contractors and third-party suppliers provide adversaries with a slew of targets in the supply chain that can be used to create or exploit vulnerabilities needed to initiate attacks on BES However, the current market is not designed to value the environmental or resilience attributes associated with the nuclear generation, Linde said. Additionally, retiring the plants, which PSEG said they would do without ZECs, would have run counter to the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals because natural gas would likely have been the replacement fuel, Linde said. PSEG Power President and COO Ralph LaRossa had a slide showing that when Exelon’s Oyster Creek nuclear plant shut down in September 2018 there was almost one for one on a TWh-basis power replacement from nuclear to gas based on US Energy Information Administration data.