Jim Murphy Says:
February 10, 2021 at 12:28 amOne year ago I retired after 33 years in the power generation industry. I worked in fossil fuel steam plants, simple cycle combustion turbines, combined cycle plants, co-generation plants and fixed panel solar plants. Over that time I had a front row seat to witness countless changes in the industry. I met and worked with thousands of people from all over the world. One of which was one of the most intelligent individuals I met. In the top five in brain power. I spent many hours conversing with him. In his position he was able to provide me with a lot if information I normally would not have been privy to.
One day he stopped to talk to me after attending a meeting. He was asked to oversee a project to implement “smart grid technology”. The technology is designed to electronically control our companies portion of the national power transmission grid.
The entire national grid is cross connected via circuit breakers and transmission cable. Power is traded as a commodity by power companies on the half hour wholesale. After 9/11 the industry was placed under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security with increased oversight by FERC and NERC two other federal agencies, an important point to note. My friend and I spoke about what smart grid would do and how it would do it.
At that time 2010ish, there were only two companies that sold the software to control the grid. One company was USA based, the other in China. The decision was made, based on cost alone by my company and many others in the US to buy and use the CCP software to control our nations power transmission grid. All with the blessing of the Obama administration and the three federal agencies I mentioned.
To be clear, the CCP has had access to the grid for 11 years. My company changed 1000 lines of code in the software which was done on a voluntary basis. We were not forced by the feds to do so. Many smaller power companies may not have had the resources to change the code.
The story does not end here. Our business network ran on Lenovo computers made in China. The control systems I worked on daily that control the generation equipment, boilers, generators, turbines etc. the “human machine interface” HMI’s are CCP made computers that have US based software running on CCP made servers.
Knowing that the CCP has spent decades infiltrating our country at all levels by corrupting people with their money, I believe they possess the ability to put the lights out across the country any time they want and have had that ability for 11 years.
Very interesting. If the CCP has the power and influence to control our elections, they surely have the power to control our power grids.
Very interesting. If the CCP has the power and influence to control our elections, they surely have the power to control our power grids.
Ted Koppel is onto something (”Lights Out”).