National Conference of State Legislators Urges Grid Protection from Solar Weather & EMPs

National Conference of State Legislators Urges Grid Protection from Solar Weather & EMPs

Solar weather and EMPs both pose great threats to the United States’ power grid and need to be addressed as soon as possible. This week, the influential and bipartisan National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) passed a resolution urging swift action to protect our nation’s electrical grid from solar geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) and high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (HEMP) —threats that, according to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homel…