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FBI warned of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest grid spiked

As a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was warning utilities of white supremacists’ plots to take down the nation’s power grid. A KUOW/OPB investigation reveals the scope of the threat to the Northwest grid.

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Suspects in Christmas grid attacks planned additional crimes, prosecutors say

The men charged with attacking four substations in Pierce County on Christmas day were plotting even more attacks on the power grid before they were arrested, according to federal prosecutors.

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A step closer to a new form of renewable energy: nuclear fusion

On Tuesday, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm walked up to a microphone to drop some big science news: Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had achieved a fusion mileston.

String of electrical grid attacks in Pacific Northwest are unsolved

Electric substations in the Northwest have been attacked, at least two with firearms, according to documents obtained by OPB and KUOW.

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Struggling customers' water, power would stay on during heat waves under new proposal

That's when a fan or air conditioner can be the difference between life and death.