How Clean Energy Expansion Guards Against Cyber Threats

Often seen as a vulnerability for clean electricity generation, former Pentagon and White House cyber strategist Harry Krejsa argues the opposite – renewable energy buildout is an unparalleled opportunity to build cyber-safe from the start with “digitally-native” clean energy technologies.  On this PowerCast, Krejsa will cover his new report and provide an overview of how major components of clean electricity generation can be designed from the ground up to be securely software-defined and networked, unlike our legacy infrastructure, which had internet connectivity grafted onto systems that were never meant to be accessible to the outside world.

Krejsa argues that these technologies can also fundamentally reshape our relationship with energy scarcity itself. Digitally-enabled clean electricity generation that requires little to no additional fuel or maintenance to operate—like zero-marginal-cost solar, geothermal, or nuclear—could drive an unprecedented level of resource abundance and affordability, catalyzing broader economic and security benefits if we build it right from the start.