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Opinion Author By Mark James and Richard Mroz Published April 25, 2019 The following is a contributed article by Mark James, assistant professor and senior research fellow at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, and Richard Mroz, senior advisor, state and government relations, for Protect Our Power. The threat of cyberattack looms continuously over our nation’s electric grid.
Serious threats to U.S. infrastructure, and especially to the electrical grid, have grown significantly in the past year and, as National Intelligence Director Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray Coats58 ex-national security officials rebuke Trump over emergency declaration DNC unveils new security checklist to protect campaigns from cyberattacks Overnight Defense: Trump to leave 200 troops in Syria | Trump, Kim plan one-on-one meeting | Pentagon asks DHS to justify moving funds for border wall MORE...
Richard Mroz For years, America has been at the forefront of technological innovation. From the earliest days of using dial-up connections to access the web to the formation of thousands of new applications and companies that exist solely because of the internet, our country has been a leader in tech. This remarkable growth has created a whole new sector of our economy.
The economic, human health and public safety consequences of a large-scale grid shutdown are enormous and clear: The relatively short two-day Northeast blackout of 2003 cost approximately $10 billion, and the cost of the ongoing effort to restore the grid in Puerto Rico after last year's hurricane is estimated at more than $100 billion. The first line of grid defense is enhancing our ability to spot incoming threats and deflect or prevent damage in the first place.
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