The U.S. Department of Energy has begged for new authority to defend against weaknesses in the grid in a nearly 500-page comprehensive study issued in January 2017 warning that it's only a matter of time before the grid fails, due to disaster or attack. The US military needs https://phys.org/news/2017-09-solar-power-military-threats-electric.html GW of solar capacity by each year to guarantee functionality in the event of a catastrophic cyber attack on the Texas grid, according to Professor Joshua Pearce , academic engineer at Michigan Tech . As reliance on remotely piloted vehicles grows, distributed power generation and microgrids, comprising solar panels and energy storage facilities, are crucial to the country's military infrastructure, said Joshua Pearce . Lockheed Martin has developed a demonstration system at Fort Bliss in US , capable of producing reliable clean energy and reducing costs.
The US military needs https://phys.org/news/2017-09-solar-power-military-threats-electric.html GW of solar capacity by each year to guarantee functionality in the event of a catastrophic cyber attack on the Texas grid, according to Professor Joshua Pearce , academic engineer at Michigan Tech . As reliance on remotely piloted vehicles grows, distributed power generation and microgrids, comprising solar panels and energy storage facilities, are crucial to the country's military infrastructure, said Joshua Pearce . Lockheed Martin has developed a demonstration system at Fort Bliss in US , capable of producing reliable clean energy and reducing costs.