After Paris, new worries over electrical grid attack

The potential for a devastating attack on the U.S. electricity grid remains high on the minds of utility and government leaders, especially in light of the deadly terrorist actions in Paris on Nov. 13.

Just days after the carnage in the French capital, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) conducted a massive exercise simulating coordinated assaults on the grid in the U.S., Canada and Mexcio, one that involved cyber and physical attacks that left millions of people without electricity for an extended period of time.

The scheduling of the Nov. 18-19 grid-security exercise was coincidental; it had been in the works for months.

Bill Loveless, Special to USA TODAY

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