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News Stories Quoting Us

• ​"What if America Went Completely Dark?" in the New York Times on August 18, 2026
• ​"U.S. Moves to Address ‘Extraordinary Threat’ From Some Foreign Electric Gear" in The Wall Street Journal on May 1, 2020
• "Domestic Terrorists Could Take Out U.S. Power Grid—and Attacks Have Started" in Newsweek on January 11, 2023

Distinctive Research

• "High Consequence Scenarios for North Korean Atmospheric Nuclear Tests," November 2017
• "Estimating the Cost of Protecting the U.S. Electric Grid from Electromagnetic Pulse," September  2020
• "Ukraine’s Coming Electricity Crisis" as published in   Foreign Affairs on February 3, 2023
• "The 2021 Texas Blackouts: Causes, Consequences, and Cures" as published in the   Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, Spring/Summer 2021

Speaking Engagements and Testimony

• "Declining Reserves for U.S. Electric Grid—Blackouts Predicted"    as presented to National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates,  June 10, 2024​
• "Reliability Technical Conference, Long-Term Outage Panel"  before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, June 19, 2017
• "Testimony on SB 83  Relating to Protection of Energy Critical Infrastructure"  before the Texas State Legislature,  April 11, 2017

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​Conference Speakerships

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Quotes in Media Outlets

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​Position Briefs to Governments

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