From the contents: 1: Introduction -- 2: Learning from the Past -- Electric Power Blackouts and Near Misses -- 3: Infrastructures at Risk -- 4: Liberalisation and Internationalisation of the European Electricity Industry -- 5: The Security of Information and Communication Systems and the E+I Paradigm -- 6: Critical Electricity Infrastructure: Current Experience in Europe -- 7: Governing Risks in the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure -- 8: Concluding Remarks and Recommendations. Appendices. A.5.1 Security Conceptual Frameworks. A.5.2 ICS Security Standards. A.6.1 Critical Information Infrastructures and Risk Analysis Framework. A.6.2 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection -- Organizational and Legal Aspects. A.7.1 Profiling the Risk Governance Gap. A.7.2 The Institutional and Regulatory Context for Risk Governance of the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure. A.7.3 Costs of Power Infrastructure Malfunctioning -- References. Glossary
Summary
"This book explores the potential risks and vulnerabilities of the European electricity infrastructure, other infrastructures and our society as a whole increasingly depend on. The work was initiated by the need to verify the potential effects of the ongoing market and technical transformation of the infrastructure, which is fundamentally changing its operation and performance. The final aim is to set the basis for an appropriate industrial and political European-wide response to the risk challenges."--Jacket