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Die USA riskieren Blackout durch kleinen Terrorangriff
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (known as “FERC”) – the agency in charge of electricity in the country – just released a major report showing that terrorists could plunge the entire U.S. into darkness if they took out just 9 of the country’s 55,000 electrical generating substations on a hot day.
online.wsj.com/news/articles/...702304020104579433670284061220
In last April’s attack at PG&E Corp.’s Metcalf substation, gunmen shot 17 large transformers over 19 minutes before fleeing in advance of police. The state grid operator was able to avoid any blackouts.
The Metcalf substation sits near a freeway outside San Jose, Calif. Some experts worry that substations farther from cities could face longer attacks because of their distance from police. Many sites aren’t staffed and are protected by little more than chain-link fences and cameras.
....., if power generation and transmission is decentralized, then terrorists won’t be able to so easily take down the entire country’s electrical system. Perhaps they could take down a neighborhood or a county’s power grid, but not the whole country’s....
www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/...ion-health-environment.html
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (known as “FERC”) – the agency in charge of electricity in the country – just released a major report showing that terrorists could plunge the entire U.S. into darkness if they took out just 9 of the country’s 55,000 electrical generating substations on a hot day.
online.wsj.com/news/articles/...702304020104579433670284061220
In last April’s attack at PG&E Corp.’s Metcalf substation, gunmen shot 17 large transformers over 19 minutes before fleeing in advance of police. The state grid operator was able to avoid any blackouts.
The Metcalf substation sits near a freeway outside San Jose, Calif. Some experts worry that substations farther from cities could face longer attacks because of their distance from police. Many sites aren’t staffed and are protected by little more than chain-link fences and cameras.
....., if power generation and transmission is decentralized, then terrorists won’t be able to so easily take down the entire country’s electrical system. Perhaps they could take down a neighborhood or a county’s power grid, but not the whole country’s....
www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/...ion-health-environment.html
