Secret Regulatory Regime is Hosing Electric Customers Fact: If you pay an electric bill, you are likely paying the secret regulatory fines your utility company is assessed if it violates Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards. This is a lot to unpack, so let’s get started. The system sounds good on the surface: There are mandatory…
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NERC Coverup Investigation Report
NERC Coverup Introduction “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis In an official assessment to the U.S. Congress released on January 29, 2019, the U.S. Intelligence Community confirmed that the U.S….
Dear Senators Murkowski and Manchin…
. CLICK FOR PDF COPY January 30, 2019 The Honorable Lisa Murkowski, ChairmanThe Honorable Joe Manchin III, Ranking MemberU.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources304 Dirksen Senate BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Senators Murkowski and Manchin I am writing in regard to the systemic coverup of electric grid standard violations by the utility industry and…
Transmission Vegetation Management Cover Up?
. After the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003, getting a “Transmission Vegetation Management” standard took over a decade. Now there is evidence of another NERC cover up “Transmission Vegetation Management” may seem to be a mundane topic, but there has been some extraordinary recent news in the region that comprises the Western Interconnection of the…
Electric Grid Cyber Cover-Up: More Details Emerging
. . More Details Emerging on the Electric Grid Cyber Cover-Up The deeper we dive into the electric grid cyber cover-up, the more disturbing it becomes. In the last 5 years (2014-2018), there have been 53 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) dockets involving 81 “Unidentified Registered Entities.” These all allege violations of Critical Infrastructure Protection…
PG&E endangered the grid – and tried to cover it up
PG&E Endangered The Grid – And Endangered You Today the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reported: “PG&E Identified as Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information. As a result of 2016 failure, 30,000 records about PG&E’s cyber assets were exposed on the internet.” We have been talking about the NERC cover-up (and FERC cover up) for quite…
Now It’s a FERC Cover-Up
The NERC Cover-Up Just Became a FERC Cover-Up The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just did an astonishing thing: They adopted the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) cover-up, making it officially a FERC cover-up. The issue? A large utility company endangered our lives with a massive cyber breach and the industry – and now…
The Electric Utility Industry Lacks Effective Regulation
FERC Must Hold Electric Utility Industry Accountable I previously described what smells like a electric utility industry cover-up of a massive cyber breach which endangered the electric grid – and endangered countless American lives. In sum, a large utility company exposed a massive amount of data that could enable hackers or state actors to gain…
A NERC Cover-Up? Who Put the Electric Grid at Risk?
A NERC Cover-Up? This incident has the olfactory bouquet of a NERC cover-up: On February 28, 2018 the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) submitted a proposed “Notice of Penalty” to the federal government against an “Unidentified Registered Entity.” This entity was responsible for a massive data breach that, according to NERC, posed a “serious…