The ongoing operation of our electrical grid is the keystone to modern life as we know it and anything that threatens it threatens to start disastrous dominos falling in rapid succession, ending in calamity.īut in a strange sort of symbiosis, our electrical power grid is itself dependent on many other utilities and other parts of our infrastructure.
If the electrical grid goes down many elements will cease working entirely until power is restored, and what few remain working will be severely degraded or limited in capability. This is because our electrical infrastructure is quite literally integral to the continued operation and sustainment of all of the other mentioned components of our society. It is even more important than our telecommunications hubs, any financial industry, national defense or transportation. It is no overstatement to assert that our electrical grid is the single, most important part of our nation’s infrastructure.
Virtually everyone living in the United States today, and indeed throughout much of the West, quite literally cannot imagine life without the reliable, constant presence of electricity.
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