Ramya

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a Department of Energy (DOE) research institute, is exploring the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchain technology, to make electricity grids impervious to cybersecurity attacks. ORNL notes that DLT could hold the key to solving the existential threats plaguing America’s energy grid. The team argues that the decentralized nature of distributed ledgers creates multiple hash copies, triggering an alert if nodes have inconsistent data.