Why Do Our Power Substations Need Protecting? Although it is hard to imagine, terrorist attacks can and do happen on U.S. soil. One such underreported strike occurred in April 2013 against PG & E’s Metcalf transmission station in California. The attack took down 17 transformers that comprise a large bulk of the Silicon Valley power […]
In April 2013, an attack was carried out on PG & E’s Metcalf transmission station, which knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to Silicon Valley. It took workers 27 days to make repairs to bring the substation back to life. Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) at the time, […]
