China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been conducting a large-scale bibliometric study on publicly available Chinese academic literature related to hacking and crashing Western power grids. In this article, I’m sharing the main findings of that study.

EDIT (20.6.2025, 8:54 CET): All of the Chinese academic articles I examined are scientific, peer-reviewed articles published in impact-factor journals (mostly Western publishers), which go through independent review by at least three independent reviewers before being published. In this case, it is not possible for something to be presented by Chinese merely to incite fear or to confuse us— impacted technical scientific literature simply does not work that way.