Reply #2: The grid has always been vulnerable to attack. [View All]

[hunter]

An EMP weapon would be like using a hand grenade to kill a fly.

A robust "smart" network would allow for all sorts of point failures that the current networks can't deal with, and when it did fail, it would fail gracefully, dropping non-essential services before essential ones.

It would also be more stable when large amounts of intermittent power sources such as wind or solar are utilized.

As it is now a single drunk driver can take out the power grid of a very large region. A trivial operator error could knock out a large fraction of the nation's power grid.