May 12, 2020—What Goes Around Comes Around

May 12, 2020—What Goes Around Comes Around

“With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country! Phase 4.” ~President Donald J. Trump Read Full Story

May 5, 2020—New Executive Order Mixed Bag

May 5, 2020—New Executive Order Mixed Bag

President Trump’s important May 1, 2020 Executive Order focuses almost entirely on the operation of the “Bulk Power Grid” which it defines to include “transmission lines rated at 69,000 volts (69 kV) or more, but does not include facilities used in the local distribution of electric energy.” Executive Order 13920, Securing the United States Bulk Power System Read Full Story

April 28, 2020—Begin in South Carolina to Empower the National Guard to Fix the Grid!!!

April 28, 2020—Begin in South Carolina to Empower the National Guard to Fix the Grid!!!

“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 J. Trump, December 18, 2017 National Security Policy Read Full Story

April 14, 2020—A New MAD, MAD World?

April 14, 2020—A New MAD, MAD World?

The Trump administration’s funding priorities display an apparent strategy to play “catch-up” with the growing Russian and Chinese hypersonic threat capabilities — and to rely totally on the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy of the Cold War. Does President Trump really want a new Cold War, now involving a multilateral offensive nuclear arms race? I hope not! Read Full Story

March 31, 2020—Good, Bad and Ugly!

March 31, 2020—Good, Bad and Ugly!

“There are a million warnings out there on a million serious things. We add one: Everything works — and will continue to work — as long as we have electricity. It’s what keeps the lights on, the oxygen flowing, the information going. Everything is the grid, the grid, the grid.” (Emphasis added) ~ Peggy Noonan in the March 21-22, 2020 Wall Street Journal Read Full Story

March 24, 2020—Unanticipated COVID-19 Grid Vulnerabilities!

March 24, 2020—Unanticipated COVID-19 Grid Vulnerabilities!

Little public attention has been paid to the vital role of electricity to America’s ability to confront the growing COVID-19 pandemic — and to assuring viable operations of the electric power grid through this stressful time. Not only are there external threats to our ability to assure this capability, the pandemic itself could cause cascading failure of the grid, leading to numerous fatalities. Read Full Story

March 17, 2020—COVID-19: Grid Vulnerabilities?

March 17, 2020—COVID-19: Grid Vulnerabilities?

The source of COVID-19, without exaggeration, was in Wuhan, China, justifying some to refer to it as the Wuhan or China coronavirus, notwithstanding claims of some that such a label is racist. Moreover, we should be wary of the rapid pace at which COVID-19 may expand in the United States and the possibilities of unanticipated consequences. Read Full Story