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Political extremists have attempted a number of attacks on electrical infrastructure and substations in recent years, with a goal of sowing chaos and civil conflict. The plots have repeatedly ...
Metcalf sniper attack CCTV footage (Attacks begin at around 1:54) Location Coyote, California, U.S. Date April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16) 12:58 – 1:50 a.m. (PDT) Target PG&E Metcalf substation Attack type Sabotage Weapons 7.62×39mm rifles On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of ...
Less than two weeks prior to the Moore County substation incident, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had sent a report to private industry in which they stated that there had been an increase in reported threats to electric infrastructure from people who espouse “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideology," with an aim of creating civil disorder and inspiring further ...
He also told an unnamed, confidential source for the Federal Bureau of Investigation that attacks are best made “when there is greatest strain on the grid,” like “when everyone is using ...
The attack on two North Carolina substations that cut power to thousands of people has raised concerns about security standards for the country’s electric grid.
The attacks have also sought to disrupt Ukraine’s defense manufacturing industry. Last September, the U.N. refugee agency reported that Ukraine had lost more than an estimated 60% of its energy generation capacity. Ukrainian authorities try to rebuild their power generation after the attack, though the barrages have eroded production.
The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group was convicted Monday of conspiring with his former girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid in furtherance of their shared racist beliefs.
International Spy Museum exhibit for the Aurora Vulnerability. The failure of even a single generator could cause widespread outages and possibly cascading failure of the entire power grid as occurred in the Northeast blackout of 2003. Additionally, even if there are no outages from the removal of a single component (N-1 resilience), there is a ...