“It was actually a very shocking result to us that there’s very few number of substations you need to take out, in the entire United States, to knock out the entire grid,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Director Jon Wellinghoff said in August.
An Escalante man is serving time for a 2019 attack on a substation that knocked out power to Garfield and Kane counties.
In the wake of vandalism this week at power substations in North Carolina, Utah’s largest electrical utility says it is working with “industry partners and law enforcement” to monitor its infrastructure for any emerging threat. Rocky Mountain operates the transmission system across Utah, but those cities with municipal power systems also have substations and infrastructure to secure. Mark Montgomery, executive director for Logan City Light and Power, said the city has not seen any increase in threats or vandalism. “We are not changing our existing security measures.”left 40,000 people in Moore County, N.C., without power last weekend.
“It was actually a very shocking result to us that there’s very few number of substations you need to take out, in the entire United States, to knock out the entire grid,” Wellinghof said.pleaded guilty to one count of destruction of an energy facility after he admitted shooting at substations in Nevada and Utah in 2016, including one Garkane Energy Cooperative substation that knocked out power in Garfield and Kane counties.
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