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60 Minutes

60 Minutes – How secure is America’s electric grid?

Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022 by Michael Mabee

60 Minutes Tackles Lack of Grid Security On February 27, 2022, 60 Minutes Journalist Bill Whitaker reported on the disturbing lack of physical security requirements for the electric grid. Watch the full report here: This report was produced by Graham Messick and Jack Weingart . People interviewed: Jon Wellinghoff, former FERC Chairman Granger Morgan, Carnegie…

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How the electric utility industry torpedoed grid security

How the electric utility industry torpedoed grid security

Posted on September 15, 2021September 27, 2021 by Michael Mabee

Our biggest security problem is not Russia or China – it is electric utility industry lobbyists While reading a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order from January of this year, I was amused for a moment that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) actually had the audacity to ask FERC if they could abdicate…

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Government Misses the Boat on Grid Security - Again

Government Misses the Boat on Grid Security – Again

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Michael Mabee

Once again, the government misses the boat on grid security. On July 28, 2021 President Biden issued a “National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems.” Here is the problem: It is still voluntary for electric utility companies to protect the electric grid: Accordingly, I have established an Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity…

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Critical Electric Infrastructure

Critical Electric Infrastructure – The Government Must Step Up

Posted on June 4, 2021June 5, 2021 by Michael Mabee

Click Here for PDF Copy   Introduction I am a private citizen who, for over a decade, has conducted public interest research on the security of the electric grid because I recognize the absolutely vital role of this infrastructure in powering every one of the nation’s 16 critical infrastructures and in undergirding not just the…

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FERC Denies Physical Security Complaint

FERC Denies Grid Physical Security Complaint, BUT…

Posted on June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 by Michael Mabee

In an order that appears to be largely cut and pasted from the electric industry arguments, FERC denied my electric grid physical security complaint on June 9, 2020. However, FERC Commissioner McNamee filed a separate “concurring opinion” which reads like a dissent. Apparently, the physical security complaint struck a nerve. Background of my Physical Security…

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Cyber Security Supply Chain EL20-46-000 EEI's China Ties Questioned

Electric Industry Lobbyist’s China Ties Questioned

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by Michael Mabee

Photo Source: Edison Electric Institute Click HERE for PDF Copy I am the Complainant in this docket. I file these two motions pursuant to 18 CFR § 385.212 (Rule 212). Background On May 4, 2020, the President of the United States declared a national emergency and issued Executive Order 13920: “Securing the United States Bulk-Power…

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Electric Industry Wants to Defer Implementation of Cybersecurity

Posted on April 10, 2020April 11, 2020 by Michael Mabee

CLICK HERE for PDF copy Protest and Comments of Michael Mabee Submitted to FERC on April 10, 2020 I am a private citizen who conducts public interest research on the security of the electric grid. I have also previously filed comments in one of the impacted dockets. Protest of the Commission’s April 6, 2020 “Notice…

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Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey

Former CIA Director James Woolsey on Grid Physical Security

Posted on March 4, 2020March 6, 2020 by Michael Mabee

Click HERE for PDF Copy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20426 Re: Motion to Intervene in Docket No. EL20-21-000 Dear Chairman Chatterjee and members of the Commission, Alongside Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, I am an honorary co-chairman of the Secure the Grid Coalition, which was founded in 2014 by…

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Loopholes in physical security of the grid

Loopholes in Grid Physical Security Identified

Posted on February 20, 2020March 11, 2020 by Michael Mabee

Click HERE for PDF Copy Introduction I am a private citizen who conducts public interest research on the security of the electric grid. I am also the Complainant in this docket. In addition to the information and recommendations contained in the original Complaint, filed on January 29, 2020 and docketed by the Commission on February…

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The Tail Wagging The Dog

Is the Tail Wagging The Dog in Grid Security?

Posted on January 25, 2020January 26, 2020 by Michael Mabee

NERC’s Performance Assessment Report: The Tail Wagging The Dog? In an order issued on January 23, 2020 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) largely accepted the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Five-Year Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) Performance Assessment Report. FERC’s  order in Docket RR19-7-000 finds that “NERC continues to satisfy the statutory and regulatory…

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  • Energy Sector Supply Chain Review – U.S. Department of Energy
  • Criminally Negligent Homicide in February 2021 Texas Blackout Deaths?
  • Chinese Transformer Threat Now Confirmed by Two Administrations
  • Secretary of Energy Advisory Board: Comments of Michael Mabee
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  • How the electric utility industry torpedoed grid security
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