The Energy Department's inspector general said on Wednesday that information about the U.S. electric grid's vulnerability to physical attacks should have been classified for national security reasons, and called on federal regulators to change the way they handle such material.
As The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission briefed many utility executives, congressional leaders, trade groups and government officials about an attack by gunmen on an electrical substation in California in April 2013. The briefings included results of a computer model suggesting that knocking out a small number of critical transmission substations could result in cascading blackouts across North America.
The inspector general's office said that all this information "should have been classified and protected from release at the time it was created," according to a "management alert" released Wednesday, just ahead of a Thursday Senate hearing on grid vulnerabilities. The alert recommended that the independent energy commission take immediate steps to secure the information and prevent further public release. (Read More Here)
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