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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Cyberattacks: Letter to Senator Edward Markey
Cyberattacks on grid raise Congressional concern Due to several reports on cyberattacks on the U.S. electric grid, on August 13, 2018 Senator Edward Markey sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as well as several entities in the electric utility industry. In these…
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…
James Woolsey: The Dangers of an Electromagnetic Pulse
Wall Street Journal CIO Network: The Dangers of an Electromagnetic Pulse 2/28/2017 Former CIA Director James Woolsey discusses the potential catastrophe if an electromagnetic pulse took out the nation’s electric grid. He speaks with WSJ’s Gerald Seib at the CIO Network in San Francisco.
Transformers: Attack on only a few could cause nationwide blackout
On March 12, 2014 the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reported that an attack on just 9 key transformers could cause a nationwide blackout. “The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country’s 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis….
VIDEO: Metcalf Sniper Attack – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal report on the Metcalf sniper attack. February 5, 2014. “A sniper attack in April that knocked out an electrical substation near San Jose, Calif., has raised fears that the country’s power grid is vulnerable to terrorism. WSJ’s Rebecca Smith has the details. Photo: Talia Herman for The Wall Street Journal” Wall Street…
WSJ: Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
Link to Wall Street Journal Article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123914805204099085 Wall Street Journal: Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies