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Published on: 5/16/2006
Last Visited: 8/10/2006
The vendors are ready, according to Bill Brownlee, vice president of marketing at Power & Water Solutions division of Emerson Process Management.
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According to Brownlee, most utilities are not price buyers.
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Yes, they apply to NERC but they also fit with other industries as well,, said Brownlee.
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The threat of a physical attack will always be there, but according to Brownlee, while terrorists can physically take the unit off-line for a while, typically the generator protection and the steam turbine protection and all the protection systems built into the control strategies would prevent any long term damage from occurring from that attack.