With a generation more and more distributed, clients and families who became prosumers (consumers able to produce), technologies (like the blockchain) enables a democratization of producing and selling energy, the Utility future role, both in Distribution and Marketing, will change. The Utility role, in fact, will be more important than before.
In the renewable energy sources (RES) world, the end users are generally more interested in the optimization of the energy production in order to get a business plan as much profitable as possible.
On the other side, the attention towards the protection of the plants from cyber attacks is usually neglected and protection measures usually do not go beyond the installation of common firewalls and antiviruses.
Evolving power grids, i.e. smarts grids, combine communications and information technologies and electric power grid technology to create a sustainable electric energy system. What used to be a static top-down network is becoming a highly dynamic meshed grid between large number of active participants.
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