A federal agency announced that it is shifting its focus to physical security around the U.S. electrical grid, after one or more assailants shot at two North Carolina substations in an attack that left 45,000 customers without power.
Personnel at work at a substation in Carthage, N.C., following a power outage on Dec. 5.
the bulk power system and figure out “whether the standard needs to be improved” and will have 120 days to turn in a report.NERC will study the effectiveness of current physical security standards and whether the current level of protection should be heightened. “Source posted four photos and a statement in response to the thread titled, ‘How can we further our cause without violence irl?’ The photos posted were of a cellphone tower, large utility pole, transformer and a large antenna on fire. The statement reads, ‘That's easy. Starve the beast of electricity and communications’,” the report said.
The U.S. power grid system is split up into three main sections: eastern, western and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which covers most of the state. These three interconnections make up more than 7,300 power plants, nearly 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines, and millions of miles of low-voltage power lines and distribution transformers, which connects 145 million customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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