Issues

We examine the development of cybersecurity law in Europe and the UK, as well as some of the amazing organisations behind a multitude of cybersecurity initiatives, such as the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation and their biennial cyber exercise GridEx.

Decentralisation and renewable technologies, combined with digital and communication models, are enabling society to shift towards a sustainable future. This edition of the Global Smart Energy Elites, recognises innovative projects and leaders across the power and water sectors that have taken elements of sustainable living and put them into working models that are shaping the utility sectors of tomorrow.

Our special supplement is focused on a current buzzword and potentially industry changing concept – namely blockchain. Blockchain has the ability to provide intermediary free interactions between stakeholders on the network, effectively rendering the utility’s role in energy trading or sharing obsolete. What this means for utilities is still to be determined and it may well be true, as one of our contributors says, that “blockchain technology can barely justify the current hype around it.” Ye...