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Nine buildings hold up the American grid. Part I cites a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission memo: destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least eighteen months, probably longer, out of 55,000 substations. A 2013 attack in California, where gunmen shot at seventeen transformers for nineteen minutes and left before police arrived, showed it does not require sophistication to do significant damage.

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    Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States Grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.”[^19] Furthermore, according to testimony from the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland securi

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