It isn't just EMPs and natural disaster that poses a threat to the grid, bu t there is also the potential for attacks on individual power substations in the vast network of decentralized and largely unguarded power grid chain. A U.S. government study established that there would be "major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed."
Whether by criminals, looters, terrorists, gangs or pranksters, it would take very little to bring down the present system, and there is currently very little the system can do to protect against...."
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