Did Joe Biden Just Make Our Power Grid Vulnerable to Foreign Adversaries Again?; Biden Suspends Trump’s Bulk-Power System Executive Order For 90 days

Did Joe Biden Just Make Our Power Grid Vulnerable to Foreign Adversaries Again?

On May 1, 2020, President Trump signed Executive Order 13920, “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System,” to prevent foreign adversaries from creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system.

“The bulk-power system is a target of those seeking to commit malicious acts against the United States and its people, including malicious cyber activities,” the executive order read. “Although maintaining an open investment climate in bulk-power system electric equipment, and in the United States economy more generally, is important for the overall growth and prosperity of the United States, such openness must be balanced with the need to protect our Nation against a critical national security threat.”

In December, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued a prohibition order “designed to reduce the risks that entities associated with the People’s Republic of China pose to the Nation’s bulk-power system” under Executive Order 13920, which took effect January 16, 2021—mere days before Biden’s inauguration. —>READ MORE HERE

Biden Suspends Trump’s Bulk-Power System Executive Order For 90 days:

President Joe Biden, in a Jan. 20 executive order, suspended for 90 days the May 2020 “Executive Order on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System,” signed by former President Donald Trump.

Biden’s “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” noted that the Secretary of Energy and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are to jointly consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued.

As TransmissionHub reported, in his May 1, 2020, executive order, Trump said that he finds that “the unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of bulk-power system electric equipment designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in bulk-power system electric equipment, with potentially catastrophic effects.” —>READ MORE HERE

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