Lake Wylie, on the Catawba River that flows from North to South Carolina, hosts three Duke Energy electric power plants and Transmission Lines to pass electricity to York County Distribution Lines operated primarily by Rock Hill Utility and York County Co-operative companies to provide it to York County citizens. The Lake Wylie Pilot Study promises to protect local citizens and be followed by others in South and North Carolina and beyond. Read Full Story
“Critical infrastructure keeps our food fresh, our houses warm, our trade flowing, and our citizens productive and safe. The vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure to cyber, physical and electromagnetic attacks means that adversaries could disrupt military command and control, banking and financial operations, the electrical grid and means of communication.” ~President Donald Trump, identifying the most serious existential threats to Americans in his Dec. 18, 2017 National Security Strategy statement Read Full Story
Our Lake Wylie Pilot Study has matured to the point of taking next steps beyond Rock Hill and York County, especially in South Carolina and as soon as possible then into North Carolina. And our pattern can be extended to additional states. Read Full Story
We plan to share lessons learned in our Lake Wylie Pilot Study throughout South and North Carolina and then to the rest of the nation. Yesterday’s discussions in Austin, Texas set the stage sharing those lessons outside the southeast; in this case outside the Eastern Interconnection of the Nation’s electric power grid. Since Texas has its own Interconnection, lessons learned in Texas will benefit the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the nation’s grid. Read Full Story
Washington has been dysfunctional in at best limited efforts to protect the American people from existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and even terrorists that somehow obtain a nuclear weapon, launch it from a vessel off our coast and detonate it at high altitude over the United States. Read Full Story
We will be adding key policy briefs as we progress.