Criticality Sciences, Inc.

We're thrilled to participate in the Dominion Energy Energy Tech Conference 2025! Join as we discuss the importance of Resilience Intelligence: www.energytechva.com #EnergyTech2025 #SPARKVirginia

🚀 Exciting News from Incubatenergy® Labs (IEL)! 🚀 EPRI’s Incubatenergy Labs has selected 24 leading energy innovators to present their groundbreaking demonstration concepts to IEL member utilities and key energy industry stakeholders at Pitch Day 2025! For the first time, this annual event will take center stage at #DISTRIBUTECH2025 in Dallas, TX. These startups are tackling critical energy challenges across generation, storage, T&D asset management, AI, advanced analytics, and customer solutions. Innovation scouts from a global network of energy providers will be in attendance to evaluate these cutting-edge solutions, and some finalists may receive funding for proof-of-concept demonstrations with EPRI and member utilities. 🎤 Meet the Pitch Day 2025 Finalists: Advanced Infrastructure Technology Limited Assetcool Blue Frontier, Inc. Criticality Sciences, Inc. CVector Energy Corp. Derapi Edge Zero Edo Energy Robotics GmbH GridCARE Heat Inverse HeyCharge Kevala, Inc. Molecule Systems ONEPREDICT Otoro Energy Peoples Energy Analytics (PEA) Prezerv prüfentronik, LLC Soraytec Sunairio Suryatech EV Power LLC Treeswift, Inc. VIE Technologies Inc. 📅 When? Tuesday, March 25, 2025 📍 Where? Initiate Pavilion at DISTRIBUTECH 2025 As part of EPRI’s mission to accelerate energy sector innovation, IEL connects early-stage companies with utilities and energy stakeholders to help scale transformative solutions. Join us in supporting these game-changing startups as they showcase their innovations! 🔋⚡ Which of these innovations are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! #EnergyInnovation #Startups #IncubatenergyLabs #DISTRIBUTECH2025 #Utilities #CleanTech

In today’s “Research Spotlight,” we feature, “Resilience to High Consequence Cascading Failures of Critical Infrastructure Networks" by Arthur Mouco, Benjamin L. Ruddell, and Susan Ginsburg. Critical infrastructure networks such as telecommunications, power, water, natural gas, diesel, transportation and cyber networks are interdependent with one another, forming a vast and dauntingly complex web of institutions and physical systems that must be engineered and secured for reliability. No single utility operator, engineering consultant, emergency management organization, financial institution, or local, regional or other government entity is capable of understanding, monitoring, or managing the whole system. Yet, failures are unavoidable, and when those failures cascade through the network, the result may be high-consequence cascading “catastrophes” or Black Swan events. In one recent and tragic example, the February 13–17, 2021 Winter Storm Uri in Texas initiated a failure in the natural gas production system that cascaded first to the natural gas power generation system and then to the wider ERCOT power system, the water distribution system and the petrochemical industry of Texas. No single system operator was responsible, and yet the consequences – including fatalities, recovery challenges, regulatory attention and extreme costs – are everyone’s problem. As networked interdependencies grow, the likelihood of cascading failures has increased accordingly, necessitating technical solutions tailored to this problem. This report introduces the basic principles of interdependent critical infrastructure networks and reviews approaches for analyzing and mitigating the vulnerability of the network to make it resilient. Resilience and reliability in critical infrastructures are complementary and orthogonal. In resilient networks, the inevitable failures due to “all hazards” stay small and don’t become catastrophes. Mouco, A. & Ruddell, B. L., Ginsburg, S. (2023) Resilience to High Consequence Cascading Failures of Critical Infrastructure Networks. (Report No. IHS/CR-2023-1015). The Sam Houston State University Institute for Homeland Security. Click here to read the paper in its entirety: https://lnkd.in/gQUHjmeM "IHS Research Spotlight" is a technical paper series hosted by the SHSU Institute for Homeland Security on our website, ihsonline.org. The non-partisan series features papers with various viewpoints & examines critical & timely issues facing homeland security. Click the link to visit the SHSU IHS research page. https://lnkd.in/g_WqHuq2 #shsuIHS #IHSResearchSpotlight

Talking #resilience at ACE 24 – see you tomorrow!

Come explore the Criticality Sciences, Inc. resilience intelligence platform at the ACE 24 Innovation Hub next week!

Come explore the Criticality Sciences, Inc. resilience intelligence platform at the ACE 24 Innovation Hub next week!

Come explore the Criticality Sciences, Inc. resilience intelligence platform at the ACE 24 Innovation Hub next week!

DEIC hosted an informative Lunch & Learn Webinar on Wednesday with Smart City Works INNOVATION HUB - a 501(c)(3) organization as part of the Accelerate Smart Cities Challenge. Thank you to Susan Ginsburg of Criticality Sciences, Inc. and Mishal Thadani of Rhizome for presenting on Innovations for Safer and Smarter Energy & Water Grids.