In the initial IEEE Committee on cyber security and protection for the Power Grid....First meeting, one engineer states .... "We need a centrally located Federal Command Center for the entire country. Universal communications and security measures." Keep in mind, this committee on day one is playing to a packed house. You can't squeeze anyone else in the room. Manufacturers and Utility Engineers coupled with Academia. They like for you to act professional. But my tongue lashed out faster than my head.

BULL SHITE! You just painted a picture where a mindless IT moron sitting in his underwear, in Mommy's basement because he cannot keep a job ....accidentally breaks through the security network of the US Government and takes down every power grid in the US. Then demands millions to enable the Fed to regain control."

"Right now, every state and utility has their own network. Every Utility uses their chosen suppliers all with their own security system and communications capability. Every device has it's own user communications systems ...."

"Not one Utility has been broken into and has had power plants shut down. Not one!" Hackers have broken into administrative platforms, but never a series of power plants or substations." NOT ONE! Calpine in California was broken into ....but the Admin offices only. Not one natural gas generator plant "

When these idiots pitch Power Grid reform, they want control nationwide .....Florida Power and Light could care less about Los Angeles Water and Power District thinks or wants to regulate.

The danger in all this comes from the likes of Maxine Waters .....she has stated over and over again that she wants the entire grid controlled by the Federal Government. In true Marxist fashion ...She wants the government to take over everything they never created.