"An EMP or Solar Incident Could Result in Blackout Warfare"

If any reminder of a grim and massive, potential risk is necessary or required for system planners; transmission operators; national and regional reliability regulators; those  utilities that are developing or designing new electric systems operations centers; and electric utilities' Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) teams, this high-level article from the US Naval Institute offers a bracing reminder of all-too-real threats to the national power grid from both human and natural causes. The threats in question stem from EMPs (the man-made threats) and solar coronal ejections or plasma flares (natural threats). 

As its author begins this piece: "Russia and China have the ability to destroy the U.S. power grid and degrade military capabilities with a nonkinetic first strike—not only through the electromagnetic effects of nuclear and nonnuclear weapons, but also by means such as cyberattacks. The sun could similarly destroy all or parts of the system through a natural event."

The weblink to this article is: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/february/emp-or-solar-incident-could-result-blackout-warfare.