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Don't worry too much. Our grid is so outdated, and such a hodpodge of networks and independent systems, that it actually works AGAINST terrorism, in that it's difficult to knock out a significant portion with a single attack, or even a small number of coordinated ones.

Not to downplay the threat....but don't make it more than it is either. ;)
 
Do what, exactly?

Cause a localized outage of a few blocks or so (until another station rerouted power)? Yes.
 
Our biggest threats are:

1) A massive hacking of modern stations coupled with actual ground actions at key points.

2) A massive EMP attack using specialized weapons to affect a large area.

Either of these could result in massive blackouts that could last months, or even over a year, due to the difficulties in getting certain parts, not to mention the manpower needed to do restoration (and of course, that cost then being passed on to the consumer). And that's IF society doesn't go down the crapper after a couple weeks of no power and no real end in sight (which it would).
 
Several years ago tornados hit North Alabama and shut power down for weeks in some cases . The same storms shut Our power down in Southern Middle Tennessee for a couple days . Our local power station switched back to a small hydroelectric dam here that Was Our primary source of electricity until the late 80's when We started pulling from the big plants in East Tennessee and Georgia . The small local plant now mostly services a Military base . We actually went back to occasional brown outs We had when I was growing up . Once the lines were back up this area went back on line with the big plants .
One point of the story is the Folks in Alabama improvised, adapted, over come being without electricity for quit a while .
 

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