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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is beyond dispute that the so-called “Green New Deal “– and the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act that has massively subsidized its adoption – has greatly weakened the reliability of America’s most critical of critical infrastructure: the electric grid. That has been the practical effect of the putative “sustainable energy movement” with its obsessive focus on reducing, if not eliminating altogether, coal-fired power generation, nuclear energy and even natural gas-powered dual-cycle turbines.

Such problems are being exacerbated by governmental and commercial interests in artificial intelligence as well as the necessary, vast expansion in the number of data centers around the country, with their endless appetite for additional power to operate and cool their server farms. Such demand is, in turn, translating into an increasingly greater reliance on the principal source of “green” solar panels, windmills and electric batteries, namely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Recent revelations that inverters associated with such Chinese products have been equipped with “kill switches” that can disable or even destroy them remotely make the prospect of serious, sustained and/or catastrophic interruptions of power at the hands of the CCP a distinct possibility. Ditto the 400+ Chinese-manufactured high-voltage transformers that comprise the backbone of our grid, at least two of which have been shown to have similar “backdoors.”

The next Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinar today from 4:00-5:15 p.m. will explore how on earth these potentially nation-ending vulnerabilities were ever allowed to exist in the first place, let alone to metastasize to the clear benefit of our mortal enemy, the CCP, as they have. We will also consider what must be done immediately to mitigate them.

Register at www.PresentDangerChina.org.

WHAT: A CPDC Webinar | “Inside Our Wires: The CCP Has Penetrated Our Electric Grid, Will Xi Destroy It?”

WHEN: 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET, Thursday, May 22, 2025

WHO:

Moderator: Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Host of “Securing America” on Real America’s Voice Network

Panelists:

Col. Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; longtime business executive in the Western Pacific; Author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America”
• Topic: “The CCP Inside Our Wires: The Strategic Implications”

Charles “Sam” Faddis, Former Career Clandestine Service Officer, Central Intelligence Agency; Army veteran; author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA”; editor, “AndMagazine” at Substack
• Topic: “The CCP’s Imbedded Trojan Horses: Donald Trump’s Effort to Shut Them Down; Joe Biden’s Reversal of His Directive”

Dave Walsh, Former senior executive, Westinghouse; former President and CEO, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas; Managing Director, Takotagroup LLC
• Topic: “The Magnitude of the CCP Threat to Our Most Critical of Critical Infrastructures – The U.S. Electric Grid – and What Can We Do About It? ”

Richard F. Storm, P.E., Founder, Storm Technologies (semi-retired); contributing Editor, “Power Magazine;” Continuing instructor of the short course, "Large Electric Utility Boiler Combustion and Performance Improvements" since 1992; former Electric Power Generation Consultant developing countries consultant, Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA); DickStormProBizBlog.org
• Topic: “How Did the CCP Get Inside the Grid: The CCP’s ‘Old Friends,’ the Red-Green New Deal and the Challenge of Our Time”

HOW: Register at PresentDangerChina.org

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