NC power station shootings show major vulnerability of U.S. power grid that requires action: experts
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Two energy experts warned that the United States is vulnerable to physical attacks against its power grid after substation shootings in North Carolina left 45,000 without power.
In addition to the North Carolina incident, Oregon Public Radio reported that at least six electric substations have been attacked in similar fashion in Oregon and Washington state since mid-November. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
"These are very lightly guarded," Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an Oxford-educated economist and director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital about electric substations in the United States, especially in rural areas.
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