Fragile Power Grid

[Briar Lee]

It seems incredible that some bumkin can simply stick a gun through a chain link fence and shoot-up a transformer and cause it to crash the grid.

Why America's electrical grid is vulnerable to attack

Assaults on the grid are increasingly frequent

theweek.com

 

[AJL67]

I don’t know where government came into this. Most electricity is generated and delivered via investor owned enterprise, not government owned transmission in the US.

I believe our governor told the major power company here enough was enough and they had to replace poles within a certain number of years which is why there is such a major push to get rid of 60 yr old poles and replace them with storm rated ones.