In February of 2021, an arctic blast froze 40 percent of Texas' electric grid. So instead of sending a voltage signal that's coming from a voltage sensor in that transformer, they can send a signal from Beijing into that piece of equipment," Weiss explained. "Instead of trying to hack all of these networks and everything else to get in, all they did was put in some hardware that will allow them to send signals. is focused on our cyber networks, something China has already proven it can bypass. One accounts for 10 percent of the power going to New York City, another supplies 18 to 20 percent of the power going to Las Vegas. There are more than 200 of these large Chinese transformers in our electric grid today. "So not only do our domestic utilities not know what has been found, our closest allies that also have Chinese-made transformers, do not know what has been found," Weiss noted. It says there's smoke and there must be fire," King told CBN News. "No comment to me is very much a comment.
When he approached the Energy Department about the missing transformer he was met with a veil of silence. Llewellyn King is a journalist who has been covering the energy field for decades. Remember this is a 500 ton, multi-million dollar machine, so there was a utility missing," Weiss explained. Department of Energy and taken to the Sandia National Laboratory. "The next large transformer from China that arrived at the Port of Houston, was intercepted by the U.S. The discovery also led to something that's never happened before. It was that discovery that led then-President Donald Trump to sign an executive order in May of 2020 banning, ".the acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation" of any bulk-power systems from "foreign adversaries." has already discovered backdoor electronics in a Chinese-made transformer. That's a very big deal," Weiss cautioned. "What they have is the ability (to do).they have their finger on that trigger today that they can take over that transformer and everything that transformer supplies coming in or going out. is busy securing its networks, China has the ability and opportunity to sabotage the equipment we rely on them to manufacture.Įssentially, they've created a "backdoor" into our electric grid. They're also custom-made in China and experts like Weiss say, while the U.S. "These are 500-ton, 20-foot tall, multi-million dollar machines," Weiss said. Even so, they are responsible for transporting 60 to 70 percent of our electricity. electric grid consists of thousands of them, the high voltage carriers make up less than three percent. Essentially, they keep electricity flowing at safe levels. Transformers take voltage sent by power plants and convert it to a level that can be distributed. "Transformers have been called by many people the 'Achilles' heel' of the electric grid," explained Joe Weiss, an engineer, and independent consultant. Most house transformers play a huge part in getting power out to you. Electrical substations are in almost every city nationwide.
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