The Epoch Times investigative reporter Kevin Stocklin discusses how efforts to remake America’s electric grid, including Biden’s green energy transition, has left China, an accused saboteur of our infrastructure, as an essential supplier of transformers and other critical hardware.
A new Epoch Times article written by investigative reporter Kevin Stocklin reveals that, while it appears China’s “cartels” are lending a hand on the power front, it could also leave America’s electric grid vulnerable to foreign control and sabotage.
“If they’re able to knock the grid out, basically modern society is going to fall,” Joe Trotter, director of the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Counsel, told The Epoch Times. “The modern grid runs our whole infrastructure and without power, we don’t have refrigeration, our food supply goes down, our water supply goes down. If the power went out across the entire United States for a month, people would die. There’d be widespread looting. Two-to-three months and you might actually have a full societal collapse.”
Despite the potential attacks we’ve already seen from countries like China, Russia and Iran, utilities continue to import essential hardware from China, with an estimated 10-15 percent of our electric transformers now being supplied by Chinese companies. In 2020, former President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13920, which declared a state of emergency regarding America’s power grid and barred new imports of Chinese hardware. Upon taking office, President Biden rescinded that order.
In 2019, federal agents seized a transformer that arrived from China, on its way to being installed in a Colorado electric grid, and took it to a lab where it was disassembled for analysis. While the report remains classified, intelligence sources say they found that it contained microchips that intentionally allowed its functions to be hacked.
Critics say that China, due to things like “backdoors” in microchips installed in grid hardware, will have the ability to shut down America’s power grid at will. Kevin Stocklin joins us now to discuss his article further.
Q&A:
- We’ve heard about attempt to sabotage America’s grid through software hacks. How serious a threat is compromised hardware to America’s grid?
- If the conflict with China escalates, could China shut down the U.S. electric grid, and how would this work?
- Why does there seem to be little concern at the federal level about this threat? Why would Biden rescind Trump’s order barring the import of Chinese hardware for the U.S. power grid?
- Americans are already seeing more essential items pushed onto our grid because of the left’s green energy agenda – EVs, stoves, home heating, etc. Is America becoming ever more dependent on a single power source that could be cut off in an instant?
- You recently produced a new documentary called The Shadow State, which discusses the impact of the ESG market. Tell us more about it.
- Where can people view The Shadow State? We understand there’s also a DVD release coming soon as well?
The Shadow State is available right now on Epoch TV. Those interested in pre-ordering the DVD for release can do so here.
- Where can we find your recent article about this subject on The Epoch Times, as well as other works you’ve written?
You can find my profile page here, with all my recently written articles, including a piece on what you’re not being told about the Electric Vehicle revolution.
About Kevin Stocklin:
Kevin Stocklin is a writer, film producer, and former investment banker. He wrote and produced We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis, a 2008 documentary on the collapse of the U.S. mortgage finance system.
CONTACT: Jerry McGlothlin at: geraldmcg@outlook.com or 919-437-0001.
