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In a new report<\/a>, SAFE points to events like the deadly 2021 power crisis in Texas, when millions of people were left without electricity during a winter storm, and a 2022 shooting at a North Carolina substation that led to outages for more than 40,000 people. While instances like these may once have been considered rare events, they\u2019re unfortunately becoming par for the course. The report also highlights sophisticated cyberattacks abroad, like the historic hack into Ukraine\u2019s power grid in 2015, as examples of what the US grid could find itself up against.<\/p>\n

\u201cExtreme weather events, cyber espionage and domestic terror attacks, combined with increasing demand on aging infrastructure have turned the occasional power failure into alarmingly common events in cities across the United States,\u201d said Thomas Coleman, executive director of SAFE\u2019s Grid Security Project, in a statement<\/a> published alongside the report.<\/p>\n

The rapid transition away from fossil fuels will only add to the strain. Electric vehicles, which draw directly from the grid, have seen exponential adoption in recent years, and the system is still limited in its capacity to deliver energy from renewable sources like wind and solar to populated areas. The current infrastructure won\u2019t be able to reliably keep up with greater energy generation and transmission needs.<\/p>\n

According to SAFE, \u201cthe progeny of the infrastructure on which our great-grandparents once relied is increasingly inadequate to serve as the foundation of today\u2019s modern economy.\u201d In other words, the grid needs updating, and fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"