Blake is the deputy editor for Energywire and author of E&E News' weekly Cybersecurity Update. Since joining E&E in 2013, he has written about crude-by-rail safety risks and investigated major cyberattacks on oil, gas and electricity companies worldwide. Blake graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a double major in journalism and Arabic and has previously reported for the Associated Press
A first-of-its-kind cyberattack on the U.S. grid created blind spots at a grid control center and several small power generation sites in the western United States, according to a document posted yesterday from the North American Electric Reliability Corp.
A former energy trade group executive and Capitol Hill aide is joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to lead its Global Energy Institute.
Electric vehicle chargers could offer low-hanging fruit for hackers hoping to disrupt the power grid, according to researchers at New York University.
The last coal-fired unit at a major power plant run by FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. in Pennsylvania will close its doors this November, retiring 19 months ahead of schedule, the utility announced Friday.
A group of hackers is ramping up efforts to break into oil and gas networks across the Middle East, according to new research from the cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc.