President Donald Trump’s August 26, 2026, Executive Order 14421, “Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System,” aims to protect the U.S. electric grid from foreign supply-chain and cybersecurity risks. The order cites digital backdoors, malicious remote access, and supply disruptions as threats magnified by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data […]
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Chinese-headquartered companies have delivered more than 70 GW of inverters to America’s commercial and utility solar plants, while each U.S. grid is designed to ride through the sudden loss of roughly 2.8 to 3.9 GW. Replacing one big transformer now takes about two and a half years. What has actually been found, what Washington has […]
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Global electricity demand is growing faster than the grids that have to carry it. The constraint is no longer just generation. It is the hardware that steps voltage up and down—large power transformers and the related substation gear—and the industrial base that used to build them. The International Energy Agency’s Electricity 2026 report puts global […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard and FBI boarded a Liberian-flagged very large crude carrier bound for Galveston, Texas, and a second energy tanker headed for another Texas port in the Gulf of Mexico after investigators found indications that foreign cyber actors had compromised their networks. Iranian state media claimed hackers seized control of propulsion, navigation, cargo, […]
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Energy consultant Kathryn Porter, founder of Watt-Logic, has issued one of the clearest practical warnings yet about the United Kingdom’s electricity system. In her recent Daily Mail piece, she describes a nightmare scenario in which the National Grid collapses under the weight of Net Zero policies: supply-demand imbalance triggers cascading failures, plunging homes, businesses, hospitals, […]
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An Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a small-scale energy generator in the United Kingdom for four days in July 2026, marking what officials and reports describe as the first successful infiltration of a UK energy facility by Iranian-affiliated hackers. The incident, first detailed by The Telegraph and confirmed by UK authorities, involved no threat to the […]
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As the conflict between Iran and the U.S.-led coalition intensifies, Tehran is signaling a dangerous new front: the world’s undersea fiber-optic cables. Iranian state-linked media has explicitly warned that the concentration of critical data cables in the Strait of Hormuz creates a “vulnerable point” for the region’s digital economy — and by extension, the global […]
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In a developing story that underscores the growing cyber vulnerabilities in America’s energy infrastructure, CNN reported on May 15, 2026, that hackers have breached systems monitoring underground fuel storage tanks at gas stations across multiple U.S. states. U.S. officials suspect Iranian actors are responsible, though definitive attribution remains elusive due to a lack of forensic […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Now that Bill Gates has said that Climate Change is not our biggest existential threat to Humanity, how much money has he cost the global markets? Charles Payne from Fox on Gutfield hits it out of the park. Stu Turley Emerging Cybersecurity Threats: Chinese Manufacturers’ Control Over Electric Buses, Power Grids, […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Clean Energy Gutted in Last-Minute Rewrite of Trump’s $1.2T Senate Tax Bill June 30, 2025 Clark Savage In a stunning turn of events, Senate Republicans have delivered a seismic blow to the clean energy sector with sweeping last-minute revisions to President Donald Trump’s $1.2-trillion “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” The amendments, inserted just […] […]
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