{"id":85617,"date":"2026-08-19T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85617"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:18:27","slug":"warning-that-mammoth-nationwide-blackout-could-last-18-months-as-power-grids-appalling-weak-spots-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/warning-that-mammoth-nationwide-blackout-could-last-18-months-as-power-grids-appalling-weak-spots-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning That Mammoth Nationwide Blackout Could Last 18 Months As Power Grid&#8217;s Appalling Weak Spots Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The United States is at risk of a nationwide blackout that could last 18 months, according to the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jon Wellinghoff became aware of the alleged vulnerability after a shooting at a Pacific Gas and Electric Company&#8217;s San Jose substation, according to the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/18\/magazine\/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times Magazine.\u00a0<\/a> He conducted a power flow analysis that modeled the large-scale effects of knocking out the most critical substation in each of America&#8217;s three power grids: the Western, Eastern and\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-b070f690-9b78-11f1-9e04-eb888fa67bd6\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/texas\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Texas<\/a><\/span>\u00a0interconnections. He said this led him to discover just how easy it would be to cripple America&#8217;s power supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (tabloid): The United States is at risk of a nationwide blackout that could last 18 months, according.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}