From what I have seen, All plants Power/Water/ Oil & Gas use a handful of the exact same Control systems products (Honeywell, Allen Bradley) and software ... with minor configuration changes across plants. These control systems are just more specialized computer systems, if an exploit were found for any one ... that would render any of them with a link to the outside vulnerable. And yes some people are stupid enough to hookup a Process control network to the internet ... lukcily in that particular case it was caught and rectified by the manager.

has nothing to do with retaliations for rockets fired. It is all due to Internal israeli politics .. the upcoming elections in Febraury is the prime motivator for the offensive. The leader that can kill the most Palestinians and can rectify the embarrassment of Lebanon in 2006 .. will come up ahead in the elections. The Israeli presidency is what is at stake here and The currency is the Palestinian body count.

this might sound a bit stupid .. but isn't storage of energy completely independent of its source be it wind, hydro etc. or is there something special or uniquely challenging about storing wind energy i am not aware of ?

Issues like version history to track changes .. and auditing capability already built into file servers should make this easy to deal with. In my company we use Live link externally and share point internally .. seems to work for us. of course it cannot track what a person who has 'access to the document will do with it ' i.e print or share with someone els.