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Citation[]

Department of Energy, Transforming the Nation's Electricity System: The Second Installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (Jan. 6, 2017) (full-text).

Overview[]

Cybersecurity threats are central to the report, which explores the benefits and risks of the increasing integration between technology and the electric grid. The DOE report makes more than 70 recommendations to policymakers, including declaring that the electric grid is a national security asset and deserves that heightened level of protection, boosting federal support to state efforts to reduce electricity demand and providing grants for small utilities to increase grid security.