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State Senator Eyes Securing Electrical Power Grid
State Senator Eyes Securing Electrical Power Grid
March 11, 2015
by Margarita Fournier; Copyright 2015 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
On 3/10/15, Greenville’s Herald Banner wrote about a resolution by Sen. Bob Hall to assure protection of the electrical grid. “Hall has written a resolution, that if passed by the 84th Legislature of Texas, will urge the United States Congress to provide Department of Homeland Security funds for the protection of the electric grid… Hall’s drive to harden – the process of protecting electrical devices from EMP [electro-magnetic pulse] attacks – the electrical grid stems from his tour as a project officer for hardening missiles from EMP attacks in the United States Air Force, he said. EMPs are created in different ways, through solar flares and storms known as the Carrington Effect, or through the detonation of a nuclear device above the earth’s atmosphere, which induces a high current and ‘will fry everything electronic.’ The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has put a total of $4.5 billion toward increasing the reliability of the grids from storms and natural disasters.” Since 2013, NERC has been working on a new standard – TPL-007-1 – related to ‘geomagnetic disturbance mitigation’.
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