Secure the Grid Coalition
The Secure the Grid Coalition is an ad hoc group of policy, energy, and national security experts, legislators, and industry insiders who are dedicated to strengthening the resilience of America’s electrical grid. The Coalition aims to raise awareness about the national and international threat of grid vulnerability, and encourage the steps needed to neutralize it.
The Basics
The electric grid is essential to all of our lives
Every human being in the U.S. is literally on life support – plugged in to the electric grid. If somebody unplugs us, everything necessary to sustain our human population stops: food, water, fuel, transportation, medical, communications, financial—everything. The electric grid is vulnerable to numerous threats and we know (from this Senate report) that in a long-term national-scale blackout, millions of U.S. citizens could die. After only a few weeks, we would die in droves from waterborne diseases, starvation and societal collapse. And what if the grid went down for longer than a few weeks?
But let’s back up. What is the electric grid and how is it regulated?
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- Michael Mabee discusses the December 2022 attack on North Carolina substationson December 6, 2022
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- North Carolina blackout highlights growing grid security problemon December 6, 2022
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- As news of increased solar storm hazard should prompt action, is Energy Secretary ignoring warnings?on December 6, 2022
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- 60 Minutes highlights vulnerabilities of the electric grid and Biden administration inactionon December 5, 2022
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- A modern-day Paul Revere: We will miss you, Dr. Peter Pryon August 22, 2022
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