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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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Silicon Ranch, based in Nashville, now has a pipeline of custom transformers to make sure supply chain problems dont stall its solar projects. A quarter of the worlds renewable-energy projects may be delayed while awaiting transformers to connect them to local grids, according to the Wood MacKenzie report.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Then, to add to the mix, last month at a public forum in Nashville, FBI director Christopher Wray noted that China’s shadowy Volt Typhoon network (a.k.a. s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. This is happening right now.” He says the U.S.’s

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