CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Tommy Waller, Douglas Ellsworth and Michael Mabee) - How to prevent the inevitable collapse of the US power grid
Originally published by The National Interest
To secure the US power grid, FERC must provide strong financial incentives to accelerate deployment of proven protection technologies. The Center for Security Policy and the Secure the Grid Coalition filed a formal Complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), docketed as EL26-49-000, this month. This is not another bureaucratic footnote. It is a direct challenge to the electric utility industry’s dangerous complacency—and a lifeline for the continuity of American society itself. The complaint asks FERC to do one simple, urgent thing: order the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC ) to assess and protect America’s bulk power system against ground-induced currents (GICs) to the international…Open