Competitors. Monitoring the network could be used for corporate research; for exam- ple, gathering info about how a company uses electricity, from which utility, and for what loads. The curious party could be a competing utility, or a manufacturer of more electrically efficient equipment. Human error. This can affect control system implementation (thus the need for com- missioning), key sharing, network administration, physical security, upgrades, flaws in software and hardware development, etc. .
