Comments of Michael Mabee to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, October 28, 2021 I commend the Department of Energy for holding this meeting and I commend the members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board for your service to this country. On June 6, 2021 Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm confirmed in a…
(Or, Why Don’t “They” Fix Grid Security?) I am usually asked the same question when I do presentations. When made aware of the various threats to the electric grid—cyberattack, physical attack, geomagnetic disturbance (GMD), electromagnetic pulse (EMP), vegetation management, extreme weather, pandemic, etc.—people invariably ask: “why don’t they fix it?” Indeed, “they” have known for…
EMP Progress Report: No Progress To Report The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just issued their first “EMP Progress Report” required by Executive Order 13865, “Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses.” You can read the report HERE. It will only take you a few minutes (including getting up to get a cup of coffee)—the report is…
Guest Post by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry EMP Ignorance Is Bliss Kelsey Atherton in “Electromagnetic Pulses Are The Last Thing You Need to Worry About in a Nuclear Explosion” (Foreign Policy July 21, 2020) describes my Task Force on National and Homeland Security (a congressional advisory board) as among the culprits exaggerating the threat from…
Click HERE for PDF Copy (FEMA) Click HERE for PDF Copy (CNGB) February 13, 2020 Pete T. Gaynor, Administrator Federal Emergency Management Agency 500 C Street S.W. Washington, D.C. 20472 Subject: FEMA’s Strategic Plan and the NDAA FY2020 Dear Mr. Gaynor, Section 1740 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020[1] (NDAA)…
“EMP Threat: How one weapon, natural phenomenon could render electronics useless” by Steve Wolford, 3 News Las Vegas (If the video frame above does not work, Click HERE) Transcript of EMP Threat video: LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The whole concept of an electromagnetic pulse sounds like science fiction, but they are very real. There are…
Senator Johnson: “It is way past time to stop admiring the problem.” Almost a year ago, Senator Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, held a hearing entitled: “Perspectives on Protecting the Electric Grid from an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) or Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD).”. Senator Johnson’s viewpoint is clear: We…
The Government Has Known for Almost 40 Years that Grid Physical Security and Preparedness for a Long-Term Power Outage is Inadequate I have researched and written about the inadequacy of electric grid physical security for a while now. I have also summitted my findings on grid physical security to the Federal Energy Regulator Commission (FERC)…
