Attacks on two DTEK solar farms last spring is a good example. They destroyed many solar panels and some of the transformers, which step up voltage for long distances or step it down for use in homes. Replacing the transformers and swapping out destroyed panels allowed the farms, which generate 400 megawatts, to be back up in seven days.
Timchenko said an attack on a thermal generating station, which experienced a similar amount of damage, took three to four months to rebuild.
Decentralizing energy is the best defense. Solar panels belong on roofs and parking lots. Backup batteries belong in neighborhoods. That way when the power plant is down or the lines are cut off, there’s still local power available.
This. Read about Obama era PACE financing to achieve this goal.
Edit. Fuck republicans for nuking PACE funding.
Military justification for an expensive national energy project?
horny government contractor noises
It’s true, the more decentralized the energy infrastructure, the harder it is to remove or be damaged.
Become an American patriot, secure our borders with decentralised power generation, on your roof, on your own terms!
Exactly!! Though I don’t understand why so many country’s and civilians are opposed to clean decentralised power generation such as solar, wind, thermal.
The fact that you get to generate your own “free” power, and its less likely to fail in times of natural disaster.
Its essentially “freedom” & “sticking it to the man” in one clean package. Its not what the media or propaganda calls “the green agenda”.
The fact that it also has applications in better national security is a win win.
Decentralised power generation makes you a american patriot! No a green hippy.
In fairness, my understanding is that there are a lot of complications with adding distributed power to existing grids. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen, just that there are engineering and safety challenges when power is coming from “everywhere” vs centrally.
And of course, there’s a lot of energy companies lobbying against clean power sources as well.
This, and the fact that solar and wind are intermittent so you always need a baseline provider, you can’t do it with “green energy” alone.
Ignoring transmission losses, which could be improved as well, the whole USA could be solar powered by a very tiny fraction of the deserts it has.
But that’d be a huge target to attack if it was all in one spot.
Much better to decentralize it
Meanwhile, people are raising hell when grid battery installations are announced. So much so that the instructions are then cancelled.
So stupid