GAO Report Praises Federal Efforts to Safeguard Electric Grid
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report praised federal agencies for collaborating with each other on grid resilience and not duplicating efforts.
The report, “Electricity: Federal Efforts to Enhance Grid Resilience,” noted that the federal government has launched more than two dozen efforts between 2013 and 2015 to improve the grid’s ability to withstand everything from hurricanes and geomagnetic disturbances to physical and cyberattacks.