Three days before NC Transformer attack DHS issued an alert. Let’s pray protecting our electric grid becomes a priority

Duke Energy personnel work to restore power at a crippled electrical substation that the workers said was hit by gunfire after the Moore County Sheriff said that vandalism caused a mass power outage, in Carthage, North Carolina, Dec. 4, 2022. © Jonathan Drake/Reuters

Important Takeaways:

  • Gun attacks on NC transformers expose threat to nation’s infrastructure
  • Just three days before two electrical substations were shot up, causing tens of thousands of customers to lose power in North Carolina, the federal Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning “lone offenders and small groups” could be plotting attacks and that the nation’s critical infrastructure was among the possible targets.
  • Here’s the link : https://www.dhs.gov/publication/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-november-30-2022-translations
  • The bulletin followed one issued by the Department of Homeland Security in January, warning that domestic extremists have been developing “credible, specific plans” to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, according to the Associated Press.
  • [In Moore County] the attack has been described by local authorities as an “eye-opener” and prompted calls to harden the state’s infrastructure to deter future incidents.
  • But similar attacks and foiled plots suggest electrical grids and other infrastructure across the United States have been targeted over the past decade.
    • In April 2013, a group of suspects wielding high-powered rifles staged an attack in California’s Silicon Valley, shooting up the Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s Metcalf substation
    • In February, three men each pleaded guilty in Ohio to a federal charge of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists as part of a scheme to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance of white supremacist ideology, according to the Department of Justice
    • In 2019, a Utah man pleaded guilty to one federal count of destruction of an energy facility stemming from a 2016 rifle attack on a Buckskin Electrical substation in Kane County and was sentenced to 96 months in prison

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