This call to protect the grid will in fact give the administration the power to control that grid.
In the same way the federal government uses any crisis or perceived crisis to gain more power and take away more of our freedoms.
That is how they used the scare of radical muslim terrorism to gain the power to form an even more pervasive police state.
Then they turned that power from fighting terrorism to persecuting citizens who don't fall in line with Hope N'Change.