At approximately 9am on April 21, 2017, ONE breaker failed in PG&E’s Larkin Street substation. This ONE breaker in ONE substation brought the city of San Francisco to its knees. The implications are numbing, particularly considering all of the promises PG&E has made to the California PUC after the San Bruno natural gas pipeline rupture.
Given the walled enclosure, a physical attack such as the rifle attack against the PG&E Metcalf substation would not be possible. However, a cyber attack could certainly succeed. Not only could it succeed, a cyber attack could cause physical damage to the targeted breaker and/or transformer.
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by Joseph M. Weiss