I work for a utility in protection and process engineering and we do not have any remote ability to change settings. As stated in the comment section of the article control and protection systems do not normally have any remote access even to on-site network operators. This philosophy protects everyone from the utility (employees/technicians) to the customer.
One key issue that seems to be on everyone's mind is the latest MS Blaster virus, could it have caused the outage? Not likely. As stated above our protection and control systems send data via leased phone lines and/or private fiber and do not have any connection to the Internet. Thus no possible way of receiving a virus.
Finally, to all of you who are dying and just can't understand why the investigation is taking such a long time...hang on! Part of my job is to study disturbances on the grid (ie why did the lights go out?). The studies take anywhere from a day to months to explain what happened. And remember the 1965 blackout study took over a year to finish.
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yes, I am too getting hit. So far I am just trying to keep up with it, but am working behind the scenes to stop/reduce it.
Holy cow! A whole 1.5MW. Lets see, thats about enough to power 100 homes!
I work for a utility in protection and process engineering and we do not have any remote ability to change settings. As stated in the comment section of the article control and protection systems do not normally have any remote access even to on-site network operators. This philosophy protects everyone from the utility (employees/technicians) to the customer.
One key issue that seems to be on everyone's mind is the latest MS Blaster virus, could it have caused the outage? Not likely. As stated above our protection and control systems send data via leased phone lines and/or private fiber and do not have any connection to the Internet. Thus no possible way of receiving a virus.
Finally, to all of you who are dying and just can't understand why the investigation is taking such a long time...hang on! Part of my job is to study disturbances on the grid (ie why did the lights go out?). The studies take anywhere from a day to months to explain what happened. And remember the 1965 blackout study took over a year to finish.