Been down this rabbit hole myself after the 2019 blackouts across the north west. Started keeping a rough log of major grid failures alongside news cycles and the correlation is uncomfortable at best.
Worth noting a few things from a technical standpoint:
Power infrastructure failures don't happen in a vacuum - they require either catastrophic mismanagement or deliberate interference, Modern SCADA systems controlling the grid are notoriously vulnerable, as demonstrated repeatedly in academic literature, The timing windows between outages and subsequent announcements (usually 48-72 hours) is suspiciously consistent
What I can't square is who benefits from the distraction. Media attention fragments during blackouts - emergency coverage dominates, and anything dropped into that noise gets buried. Classic signal/noise manipulation.
The 2003 Northeast American blackout preceding certain Patriot Act extensions is probably the most documented example if you want a starting point for research. Closer to home, some of the Scottish grid issues in 2021 lined up oddly with certain Brexit-adjacent policy shifts that barely registered publicly.
I'm not saying it's coordinated - I'm saying the pattern warrants serious scrutiny rather than dismissal.
Has anyone actually mapped these incidents properly with timestamps? I've done rough comparisons but nothing rigorous. Would be genuinely interested if someone with better data tools than me has run actual correlation analysis rather than anecdotal observation.
What regions are people seeing this in most consistently?