Protect Our Power

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Protect Our Power was formed in 2016 as an independent, non-profit advocacy and educational organization focused solely on driving increased resilience of the U.S. electric grid to attacks.

Protect Our Power was formed in 2016 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan advocacy and educational organization focused solely on driving increased resilience of the U.S. electric grid.

We have built a well-respected, credible team of experts who work with, not for, key stakeholders in industry, the Administration, Congress, and state and federal regulators. Our Advisory Panel members include former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, former CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, and former Coast Guard Vice-Admiral John Shkor, as well as top-level experts from the power, financial and security industries, academia, and former state and federal energy regulators.

Protect Our Power has become an influential, aggressive voice driving state and federal agencies and the U.S. Congress to develop more effective policies to substantially improve our ability to repel attacks on the electric grid and make our nation and economy more secure. We further believe that America’s business leaders need to take an aggressive role on this issue because they are on the front lines, with their companies and employees among the most vulnerable to grid disruptions.

Protect Our Power works to bring together the many disparate elements that make up the electric grid — the thousands of private, public, and cooperative generators, transmission, distribution and equipment supply companies, and state and federal regulators — to achieve a singular result: Ensuring the continuous delivery of a highly reliable and affordable supply of electricity despite the real and escalating level of cyber and physical attacks and natural disasters.