Hawaii

Utilities rely on insights from their peers to understand active cybersecurity threats, but they can be reluctant to share information due to concerns about protecting the privacy of customers and businesses. With a proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), the opportunity to learn from existing cybersecurity data is even greater. Berkeley Lab collaborates with Hawaiian Electric and other partners to develop a national-scale, privacy-preserving software platform designed to create a more secure power grid.

An artificial “star” launched by the Landolt NASA Space Mission will allow scientists to uncover new information about dark energy and the universe’s expansion. A team from Berkeley Lab will observe Landolt with ground-based instruments, including the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) in Hawaii, built in part by Berkeley Lab. The mission team includes the University of Hawai’i, which will provide access to the UH88 telescope located atop Maunakea, one of the ground stations that will observe Landolt during its mission.