Mad or Impossible to Be Mad? Rethinking Load Manipulation Threats in Renewable-Integrated Power Grids and Defenses

Researchers discovered a new threat called ToLaR (threat of loads and renewables) that can attack modern power grids with renewable energy sources like solar panels and batteries more efficiently than previous attacks. By manipulating both the electricity demand side and the renewable energy generation side simultaneously, attackers can cause grid instability with only 10% of the resources needed for older attack methods, potentially dropping grid frequency to dangerous levels.