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Clean energy infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattack — the Biden administration has a plan to protect it

Art depicts a utility pole and power lines in the center, with images of power plants, wall plugs, the statue of liberty, and people working at computers around it.
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The Biden administration released new priorities today for safeguarding clean energy infrastructure from possible cyberattacks.

Smart grids and EVs can have big benefits when it comes to saving energy and cutting down pollution. But as more pieces of our lives become electric and digital, new cybersecurity challenges arise. That’s why the Biden administration is releasing guidance today on how to keep new parts of our energy infrastructure safe from harm.

“We have a once in a generation opportunity to refresh our infrastructure — to get a bit of a mulligan on some parts of our infrastructure that were never designed for the level of digital / physical convergence…

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