Dusseldorf Imagine everything is dark. The Internet is paralyzed, the railways don’t run, the cell phones go out after a few hours and when the tank is empty there is no more fuel – a horror scenario. Millions of people fear a blackout, i.e. a large-scale power failure.
The writer Marc Elsberg made this fear a best seller. Now the book has started as a series – and more topical than ever before. For four years Elsberg researched every detail in order to describe the disaster as realistically as possible, drawing attention to a topic that many were not even aware of before: our power grid is becoming more and more fragile. And increasingly more vulnerable due to the digital control.
So will we soon be in the dark when too many electric cars are connected to the grid at once? How realistic is such a blackout really? And how safe is the power grid from hackers? These are the questions the new issue of Handelsblatt Green deals with in conversation with author Marc Elsberg and Matthias Boxberger, head of the Eon network operator Hansewerk.
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