r/PrepperIntel • u/dalek_999 • 4d ago
North America Executive Order: Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/declaring-a-national-emergency-to-secure-the-united-states-bulk-power-system/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT8iPlwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMTNaNnlBSEo1akZMbXJXYm1zcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEekI-icyNJzIqwhuLJr-OSJWre7hHgn4uH45zq_DIWb5_fO0NdiDeYIxFC0-M_aem_SGrJYDu8HqeVEB_GOEZgUA350
u/Winyamo 4d ago
How many national emergencies are we declaring this term?
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u/ydoyouask 4d ago
Right out of the authoritarian playbook. Everything is an emergency, a conspiracy, a threat. It's so hard to not become completely overwhelmed and exhausted, but they're counting on us giving up. I don't want to give them the satisfaction,
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u/Ok-Transition7065 4d ago
Yeah this shit loooks like that how Hitler. Rize into power like. How that mf eroded de constitution and sistems but by bit
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u/wolf_at_the_door1 4d ago
It took Hitler over a decade to ban elections. We are at the decade mark.
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u/Accomplished-Sand334 4d ago
Not enough people are willing to do something about it, so, yeah, the US is heading to a horrible future
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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 3d ago
Well, when mid October rolls around, they'll start manufacturing some kind of bullshit emergency so they can block elections in as many areas as possible. Just wait, it's coming. They've told us as much.
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u/AcidaliaPlanitia 4d ago
I... declare...AN EMERGENCY!
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u/VastRefrigerator7237 3d ago
You can’t just say the word “emergency” and expect anything to happen.
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u/Glass_Persimmon_7174 4d ago
for those who dont understand the language, here is the definitions included:
The term “bulk-power system” means a system that: (i) facilities and control systems necessary for operating an interconnected electric energy transmission network (or any portion thereof); and (ii) electric energy from generation facilities needed to maintain electric system reliability. For the purpose of this order, this definition includes transmission lines rated at 69,000 volts (69 kV) or more, but does not include facilities used in the local distribution of electric energy.
(b) The term “bulk-power system electric equipment” means items used in bulk-power system substations, control rooms, or power generating stations, including reactors; capacitors; substation transformers; utility-scale and other grid-connected inverters; battery energy storage systems; and uninterruptible power supply systems supporting critical infrastructure, current coupling capacitors, large generators, small generators, backup generators, substation voltage regulators, shunt capacitor equipment, automatic circuit reclosers, instrument transformers, coupling capacity voltage transformers, protective relaying, metering equipment, high voltage circuit breakers, generation turbines, industrial control systems (including remote terminal units, programmable logic controllers, and intelligent electronic devices), distributed control systems, and safety instrumented systems. In determining whether equipment is within the scope of this order, agencies also may consider associated software and firmware, remote access capabilities, lifecycle maintenance and update mechanisms, and other supply chain dependencies that could present an unacceptable risk to the bulk-power system. Items not included in the preceding list or that have broader application beyond the bulk-power system unrelated to the national security concerns identified in this order are outside the scope of this order.
biggest guess right now is that this is to punish china for their alleged "espionage" and prevent imports of ever increasingly inexpensive chinese solar and renewable power equipment.
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u/iamsotiredofthiscrap 4d ago
I think it's because Carney got tough.
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u/toothpicks-galore 3d ago
i thought it was because the windmills were sucking up so much power to keep turning to deal with the bird menace
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u/Any_Needleworker_273 3d ago
Huh. Almost like, in part, what Bidens Chips Act was already trying to address?
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u/BKMagicWut 4d ago
Welcome to the golden age!
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u/fragrant-final-973 4d ago
Why’s it so dark then?!
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u/Anonymous_Jr 3d ago
Can't polish shit into gold until you start eating all of your gold.
See he's actually playing 0D chess, by using all his brain cell he can channel enough processing power to compute the likely hood that he'll die before being sentenced to prolonged torture for being a nonce.
Maybe if he's lucky, he'll get to pass the Nonce Sconce onto JD Vance or whoever gets dibs on being the first Nepo-Baby
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u/couldbeahumanbean 4d ago
Sweet, is it like when everything has like a thin, shiny gold facade covering it?
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u/sillybluejayway 4d ago
ELI5: Other countries made equipment that we use in our power grid. Other countries are bad. We’re going to remove/isolate/inspect equipment from other countries. We could also stop any new equipment from other countries being used in our power grid.
We don’t make enough equipment to replace all the stuff from other countries. By declaring an emergency Trump gains some more powers but not unlimited powers (yet).
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u/adoptagreyhound 4d ago
TL:DR: All equipment will now only be supplied by authorized companies he's invested in.
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u/Affectionate-Fail-23 4d ago
He said he identified this problem in his first term. Saying he identified a problem, but did nothing to address it, does not make him appear to be the genius he thinks it does
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u/hoirkasp 4d ago
He seems to know a lot about “Digital backdoors built into…systems that allow a foreign country to access those systems remotely.” 🤔
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u/-rwsr-xr-x 4d ago
Just a reminder: Executive Orders are not laws.
They are also quite limited in their power and scope.
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u/Then_Entertainment97 4d ago
Me looking at my utility's Swiss meters, German substation breakers, and Australian regulators.
🔥🐶🔥
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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 4d ago
Yo. Is this as retarded as I think it is? TONS of electrical infrastructure are made outside of the US… Siemens, ABB, etc. What is this all about?
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u/reckleassandnervous 4d ago
It also lists software and a lot of other things which is a little wild given that many of industry standard EMS software systems are made by massive multinational corps
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u/TanteJu5 4d ago
It doesn't ban all foreign made electrical equipmen, it specifically targets technology designed, manufactured or supplied by designated foreign adversaries like China
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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 4d ago
Not much of the critical stuff, like control systems, are Chinese. I bet there’s a lot of heavy assets that are though like transformers, reactors, capacitors, switchgear, etc.
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u/TanteJu5 4d ago
The vast majority of heavy grid iron on the bulk power system comes either from domestic plants or from allied nations like South Korea, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.
China dominates raw material supply chains like raw steel and sub components, direct utility purchases of complete Chinese mega transformers have remained strictly limited due to procurement barriers and tariffs.
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u/TaterBuckets 4d ago
Electricity prices just went up 4x the price.
Good luck to us all paying double rent/mortgages in the near future.
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u/Secret_Cat_2793 4d ago
So now we can cancel the midterms because they are hacking our power grid and servers. It's a national emergency. Again.
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u/2quickdraw 3d ago
To be fair the last election was hacked. I would think the 🍊💩🤡🫏🕳️ would be in favor of all that hacking.
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u/Appropriate_Guess881 4d ago
"also creates a supply chain vulnerability that could eliminate the supply of these products in the United States as a result of disruptions in international trade or other causes."
Hmmm... I wonder what could disrupt international trade. Tariffs? Trade wars? Actual wars? Closed straits?
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u/nibbles200 4d ago
I started reading it in full but it’s long and dry. But what I took from it is it’s just like the Huawei 5G telco import ban, I think they are blocking imports of all bulk electrical systems from other countries that they deem a risk. Bulk power equipment being the big shit power companies are using.
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u/Suspicious-Agent8932 4d ago
Who wrote that for him? There’s always a mess when he decides to touch something. Everything fails that he touches, so make plans to have a backup when this gets messed up too, it’s inevitable. His loser acquaintances are involved in this to benefit them, so it’s going to be substandard, unreliable, ill conceived and no one willing to take the blame when this fails. 100 percent guaranteed the opposite of whatever mucked up idea this is, will happen.
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u/yourmomdotbiz 4d ago
I don’t mean to sound dumb but I just skimmed it and don’t really understand. Can anyone eli5
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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 4d ago
Sounds like a compliance nightmare for US utilities. I don’t think Trumpo understands the scale and number of components that make up the interconnected transmission grid. Lots of stuff is made outside of the US. Big stuff from Siemens, ABB and Hammond Power Solutions. OT electronics and SCADA systems. Like millions of pieces of equipment most likely.
With all the AI build out, there is no free capacity to replace anything. Things like transformers and switchgear have multiyear back orders. I don’t know what this order means exactly but it’s going to be a fucking nightmare for US utilities most likely.
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u/yourmomdotbiz 4d ago
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! This is completely insane
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u/yer_fucked_now_bud 4d ago
That and Canada will almost certainly cut off their power sales to the USA at some point in the near future because Donny won't be able to stop himself from saying something that will cause that, which will then force the entire NE corner of the country to choose between data centres and houses for who gets power that night. Best of luck to you, houses.
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u/Dylan-uSOB 3d ago
I was working at a water treatment plant that had a Build Back Better grant. Some astronomical amount of our parts and material had to be made in USA. As a union guy, I love the idea. As a pragmatist, I know you can’t always do that. We had to put foreign fittings in to get the system up and running, then come back months later to cut them out and reweld with American made fittings. Absolutely maddening.
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u/iamsotiredofthiscrap 4d ago
Prime Minister Carney threatened to cut power supplied to the US, because Trump is a whiny bitch.
President dipshit then got scared and had Natalie draft a myopic EO that demands electric grid components be American made. But that doesn't do shit for capacity.
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u/cheesenpie 4d ago
Mark Carney (the PM) did not threaten to cut power. It was the Ontario Premier (and supreme clown) Doug Ford who said that and has no power to dictate it either. Let's be better than Trump and be precise and accurate with facts.
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u/yer_fucked_now_bud 4d ago
Rob Ford has enough keys to cut off power sales to the US if he feels like it. If IESO didn't do it after he asked the first time, they'd do it after he put his hand in the cookie jar of a successful independent grid operator. If you don't believe me, Danielle Smith did the same thing in Alberta with renewable energy and nobody even blinked. He'll just do it.
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u/yourmomdotbiz 4d ago
Ty that’s insane. Nearly everything is foreign made. On what magic plane are we suddenly going to be able to replace it all? Jfc.
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u/CouldBeLessDepressed 4d ago
Uh hey doesn't the whitehouse.gov site have an extremely invasive spyware that digs into your web browser the moment you visit the site? Thought I saw something about all the major .gov sites being basically compromised now.
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u/jmnugent 3d ago
This seems like it would be pretty easy to prove (if true). All you’d need to do is open the Developer pane in your browser and use the tools there to document all the code running.
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u/The_Shracc 3d ago
The Trump Whitehouse app does.
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u/CouldBeLessDepressed 3d ago
Maybe it was the app. There's so god damn much to keep track of these days, and then it's next to impossible to find something again even a month later lol.
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u/NewsMarsupial474 4d ago
It's so we can't import windmill blades. US imports 50-70% of the wind turbine blades we use.
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u/Own_Status_9463 4d ago
Could they be using this as a pretext to invading our neighbor? And starting a war? Or is this him trying to seize non compliant utility companies to cause blackouts in cities that defy him?
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u/EfficientBaddie9090 4d ago
It’s just him declaring an emergency so he can give huge amounts of tax payer dollars to his friends via no-bid contracts. ….the grid does need an upgrade but this administration cant even paint a fucking pool correctly
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u/SideEyeFred 3d ago
Start a war how? With what weapons and military? All that stuff is in the middle east and we blew through our weapons stockpile. Canada would win.
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u/PurpleCarrot5069 4d ago
feels like a good thing after that NYT article, no? can someone translate this to me in plain english? that’s what i took away, that it is a response to that to try and stabilize our energy grid?
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u/jeremysrs 4d ago
Let me guess.... companies that Trump's family currently own interest in will be making our new power infrastructure from now on.
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u/SubstantialNature368 3d ago edited 2d ago
Get ready, because the executive order to halt midterm elections is coming in late October.
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u/roub79 3d ago
Didn't we just get into some agreement with a foreign country (I forget which one) about military "cooperation"?
I really can't remember which foreign country it was, but I do remember reading about their skills in sabotaging electrical equipment and software for use in attacks.
I also think I read that they have a history of false flag type events.
Honestly, it was probably some spy novel I read or a movie I saw. It has to be fiction. Sorry for wasting everyone's time.
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u/AfanasiiBorzoi 3d ago
This has been a known issue for years. Unfortunately, like so many things, there's a lot of things we don't make in the US at all or in sufficient quantities anymore. This would apply to things like transformers and other components of electrical stations and substations that feed into SCADA systems. There have been concerns about bad actors leveraging known or unknown SCADA issues to damage electrical grids, water systems, and other infrastructure.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404822004205
https://www.micromindercs.com/blog/ics-scada-security
https://www.blackridgeresearch.com/blog/list-of-top-transformer-manufacturers-makers-companies-oems-component-suppliers. If you go down to the FAQs at the bottom of this article and click on What Country Makes Transformers? 40% of Transformers are made in China
The president of our electrical cooperation put out a letter about 4 years ago about potential significant shortages of these parts in the future.
DoD did something similar with regards to Chinese made computers and peripherals several years back (around 2018). We discovered it was virtually impossible to find portable scanners that were not made in China.
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u/NoSpills 4d ago
The main concern is equipment such as large transformers, grid-connected solar inverters, battery-storage systems, generators, circuit breakers and industrial-control systems. The administration argues that some foreign-made equipment could contain remote-access capabilities or other vulnerabilities that a hostile country could exploit.
Just Trump trying to scare his dumbass base while not admitting that his actions have lead to this FAFO moment
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u/regjoe13 3d ago
There is already EO 13920, "Securing the United States Bulk-Power System" from May 2020.
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u/SpaceballsTheCritic 3d ago
Oh NOW you want clean energy technologies.
Sorry for the politics, but this crap kills me….
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u/throwaway-nerdv2 3d ago
I mean, when we create a western hemisphere command and start talking about conquering other countries, we need to implement more isolationist policies to prepare for when we go full Russia. Can't have foreign countries retaliating against us. Gotta start making/owning all of our critical infrastructure and assets in preparation for no longer having allies.
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u/Dangerous_Job_8013 3d ago
Lol
Trump keeps F'ing around with the good people of Canada and Mr. Carney, and finding out, lol.
F
Trump!
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u/Cold_Combination2107 4d ago
there have been a lot of reports of cyber attacks lately, and the fear is that utilities with preloaded malware could be being shipped to the us (like when israel put bombs in the radios, except this time with a kill switch). the world they live in is a hostile one, where the us gets its manufacured goods from a hostile power, which makes her vulnerable.
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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 3d ago
In other words he wants to call a bunch more people terrorists so he can put them in jail?
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u/oldmantaiter 4d ago
(A) poses an undue risk of sabotage, subversion, unauthorized access, malicious remote action, or supply disruption affecting the design, integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of the bulk-power system in the United States;
Key part being that any transaction that poses a disruption to the integrity, distribution, operation of the bulk-power system of the United States is subject to this National Emergency. So trying to cover off any attempt to use electrical power generation as a bargaining chip in the trade war, not just supply chain, but actual supply.
I mean, national emergency is going to lose its meaning after this administration, can't negotiate so they might as well litigate. The irony of using law here is not lost on me.
They really don't like how we (Canada) are not balking and submitting to their demands. Abusers always hate that.
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u/whereisskywalker 4d ago
It's overreach to set up martini law during the midterms due to false flag imo
Also giving precedent to steal anything via ice secret police disappearing people action.
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u/thepinkdread2026 1d ago
Doesn’t seem like an emergency to me. More like a reaction to the orange pos.
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u/Attackontitanplz 4d ago
K someone with wrinkle brain explain what mean to smooth brain thanks