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Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance

Still an issue, I work for a utility and lead times for things like high voltage transformers are still ~18 months or so from what I’ve been told

Coincidentally, I also processed a shipment of smaller transformers that came thru from South Korea (which for us was unheard of)

It’s not ideal

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so what youre telling me is that if a group of organized people wanted, they could take out the entire us electrical grid by blowing up a bunch of transformers?

HUH

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Attack on Nine Substations Could Take Down U.S. Grid (2014)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/attack-on-nine-substations-could-take-down-us-grid

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interesting

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Lead times on those have been that bad for at least 10 years

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It’s never been good in my experience (9 years), but it’s also never been quite as bad as it currently is

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