electric grid," Mabee told Bill Whitaker on "60 Minutes." In June 2022, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic extremists have been developing plans to disrupt the grid since at least 2020.īrian Harrell, former assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security, told CBS News thia week that there has been a "significant uptick" in conversations about "sabotage and physical attacks on distribution and transmission substations." From 2013 to August 2022, "there have been over 700 physical attacks against the U.S. Moore County isn't the first place where substations have been targeted: A 2013 attack on the Metcalf transmission substation in California caused more than $15 million in damage, but quick intervention prevented power outages. The 2021 NAS report that Morgan helped author devoted an entire chapter to these underinvestments, blaming a confluence of issues including uncertainty about the future of the sector, the highly regulated nature of the industry and the need for innovation that isn't necessarily being met. In general, many problems are the result of decades-long underinvestment in the power system.
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