Solution Brief • Distributed Energy & Microgrids

Cyber defense for Islanded & Resilient Microgrids.

Microgrids combine distributed renewable generation, battery storage, backup diesel/gas generation, and dynamic load management into autonomous electrical islands. Battery Cyber protects microgrid controllers, synchronization equipment, and edge telemetry from adversarial disruption.

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Microgrid Attack Vectors

Autonomous control creates new exposure.

Unlike bulk power systems with significant rotating inertia, low-inertia microgrids are vulnerable to microsecond-scale control disturbances.

Islanding Mode Tampering

Attackers targeting IEEE 1547 anti-islanding trip signals or microgrid controller state logic can trigger false islanding events or prevent intentional reconnection to the utility grid.

DER Inverter Instability

Coordinated manipulation of smart inverter volt-VAR and volt-watt curves can induce severe voltage harmonics, triggering protective disconnects across solar and battery assets.

Air-Gap & Hybrid Boundary Breaches

Remote monitoring gateways, cellular modems for renewable incentive reporting, and local technician laptops introduce bridge points into supposedly isolated networks.

Air-Gapped & On-Premises Architecture

For defense, municipal, and healthcare microgrids requiring zero external cloud dependencies, Battery Cyber Control deploys in a 100% air-gapped on-premises configuration with local analytics and alerting.

• Zero cloud egress • Local hardware appliance

Multi-DER Protocol Interoperability

Seamlessly monitors heterogeneous protocols across multi-vendor assets: SunSpec Modbus, DNP3, IEEE 2030.5, CAN 2.0B, and IEC 61850 GOOSE/MMS messaging without control loop interference.

• Multi-vendor coverage • Passive telemetry decoding

Resilient Microgrids

Protect your critical energy microgrid.

Speak with our OT cybersecurity engineering team to assess your distributed energy architecture.

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