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NERC will suspend planning to mitigate the impact of an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear attack, as industry interest has shifted to other priorities.
The grid cannot be protected against EMPs without guaranteed cost recovery and more access to classified information, NERC’s EMP Task Force concluded.
State regulators considered the impact of a prolonged blackout for about half the country during NARUC’s first-ever “black sky” exercise.
A panel at the Edison Electric Institute conference discussed the need to separate fact from fiction on electromagnetic pulses.
President Trump’s executive order calling for actions to protect the grid from EMPs has “troublesome” timing requirements.
NERC’s task force on electromagnetic pulses will hold its first face-to-face meeting at the ERO's offices in D.C. on June 12.
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