Ballistic Testing | Ideal Utility Services

With the passing of North American Electric Reliability Corporation's CIP-014 standard, transmission station and substation owners are installing new and more secure ballistic barriers to protect their bulk power systems including control centers and electrical grids. Directly from NERC, this standard has been put into place to identify and protect Transmission stations and Transmission substations, and their associated primary control centers, that if rendered inoperable or damaged as a result of a physical attack could result in widespread instability, uncontrolled separation, or Cascading within an Interconnection. But how exactly do these barriers protect their critical assets from attacks? Ballistic attacks are the most common form of intrusion on power systems, as it's become quite normal for it to happen all around the world. That is why the Ideal ballistic barrier is up to UL 752 Level 3,4,7, 8…

Attacks on substations have been happening more and more over the last couple years which was why the change had to happen. That change came in the way of the CIP-014-1 standard, which is a standard that requires transmission owners on the Bulk Power Systems (BPS) to perform risk assessments on their critical transmission stations, substations and primary control centers. While there have been multiple forms of attacks on these stations, the most common has been from sniper attacks which is why standards had to be put into place. That is why the utility security needs to be more than just a concrete wall or chain link fence. Enter, Ideal Utility Service's ballistic barriers. To keep ballistic attacks from penetrating the barriers and reaching or damaging the critical assets, Ideal's…

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