The EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse Device, Is a Good Idea

This is something that you will hear about increasingly. As long as those substations remain things with essentially no kind of protection, the assumption is, hey, everybody living here needs energy. So who would be enough of a jerk to attack it? What good would it do? It would help maybe distract local law enforcement for long enough in one area and then pull a pretty successful heist. Without providing solid proof, I am virtually certain that intelligence agencies and state actors have deployed similar tactics in the past.