really bring the renewable energy that we want to see take over the energy system on the electric power research institute did a study that estimated that seventeen to. twenty four billion dollars would be needed annually over the next twenty years in order to really upgrade to the smart grid of the twenty first century but what's good about this is if we can find that money and we should be able to because really it's only what half a percent of the federal budget each year. we are not only going to make our communities more resilient but the same types of technologies will also allow more renewable energy to come online and so we're talking about things like demand response the a colder grid integration in improving the redundancies to make sure and making transmission lines be able to travel be able to push electricity faster from place to place one of the you mentioned three things what do those mean sure well demand response is about recognizing when you have discrepancies in between where power is being produced and where it's needed and being able to use smart technologies of the twenty first centu

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. >> rich loaden is with electric power research institute and says the execution and the attack is unprecedentunpreceden. >> they knew what to cut, where to cut it, they knew what equipment to go after, and they also knew how to get out of there before the police and fire came. >> pse&g declined to respond to comments, saying the incident was still under investigation. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> police busted a major auto theft ring today. officers from several agencies descended on the 36th avenue business this morning. investigators say the body shop was being used to take apart stolen cars, a chop shop basically. inside they found vehicles, auto parts, and even boats. 23 people were detained, seven on felony warrants. another four were arrested on weapons charges and possession of stolen property. animal control also took away a pit bull and two pit bull puppies, as you can see. police say they've been planning this raid for a couple of months. >>> a new twist tonight in a san jose murder case. police have dropped a murder charge against one teenager and are now charging his twin brother with the crime

>> if you look at the past year, basically electric power research institute has shown over the last decade there have been a privately 2500 attacks on power lines and substations around the world. there are 250 attacks per year in the grand scheme of all the u.s. transformers, less than 0.4%. the industry is very focused on making sure that even if they are attacked like in the case of the substation, they are able to be resilient restore power quickly. in this case even though it was a highly sophisticated attack coordinated on knowledge of fiber-optic cables, even with that level of sophistication, no power was ever loss in this incident so that does show you the industry is losing leanings resiliency. jenna: even with the mass blackouts we have seen in the past like in 2003 2003 west of blackouts on the east coast caused in part by a tree branch, was not even anything that was a serious attack. we're talking the way some of these companies can prepare if they are attacked, so what about prevention, where are we on that? >> we have all experienced different parts of the country wh