Illinois partnership looks to build trust in grid through cybersecurity research

Midwest Energy News (June 12) A team of researchers at a unique facility in downstate Illinois is working to answer questions around maintaining trust in the power grid, particularly when faced with cybersecurity threats.The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) is a federally funded collaboration between universities, national labs and private industry aimed at bolstering the security and reliability of a power grid that is becoming increasingly digitally connected. CREDC, which was launched in 2015 with $22.5 million in DOE funding and $5.6 million in recipient cost-sharing, is based at the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It builds on two previous grid-cybersecurity efforts at the institute that date back to 2005.