IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL OR THE WORLD WIDE WEB - widespread, standardized, fast, robust systems that are ubiquitous in today's modern world. How would you communicate with friends, family and coworkers? How would you keep tabs on what's going on in your world? Compare the broad level of connectivity that the Internet provides today with the environment of many electric system operators: little visibility outside of their control system; old-style supervisory control and data acquisition, and energy management systems; little advanced warning of pending trouble; little or no contingency analysis.
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