SPIDERS: Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security.

economic prosperity depend on a fully functional electric grid; yet the bulk power grid that drives all facets of our economy—from banking to supply chain distribution to telecommunications—remains vulnerable to disruption. Not only is much of our power generated by fossil fuels, which have a negative impact on the global environment and are transported by an insecure supply chain, but the grid itself is fragile, vulnerable to overload and storms that bring down power lines, and cyber attack.