FERC directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to set a reliability standard for solar storms. Under that standard, not a single high voltage transformer in the U.S. electric grid is required under the standard to have hardware protection. Instead, paper studies exempt utilities from taking tangible action. As of May 2020, only one device to block harmful currents from solar storms has been installed in all of the U.S. electric grid. Fairly stated, FERC ignored my testimony and that of other experts.
Thank you for sharing this and I hope someone in government takes action to protect our grid. Based on your findings have you made any personal preparations for an event like this? I lean towards preparedness but know I can be a little over reacting when hearing about these possibilities.