And that was back when the switches were mechanical - now take all those microprocessors offline, and there is no human to throw a mechanical switch. Substations are no longer manned at all.
Just-in-time delivery also hugely increases risk - but that is an unintended consequence of tax law.
Some genius decided to tax utilities on yard stock - so they no longer have any.
can you say “cascading fault”? I knew you could.
About 20% of our generating capacity will be immediately lost - for good. Ironically, the EMP-hardened part.
The rest will be lost temporarily.
And the nation will go dark.
Agree.