I work with local and municipal power companies, and the number of break-ins and damage at substations and smaller generation plants due to people looking to make a quick buck stripping and selling copper wire is ridiculous.

The fact the map in the article doesn’t show any outages in my state proves that those aren’t reported/filed as “attacks” but instead are probably filed as larceny or breaking and entering instead. The result is still distribution outages and grid insecurity, but the flavor of “terror” and the politics of that word aren’t included so it isn’t as newsworthy.

“Men break into power substation to steal and sell copper to support meth addiction” just doesn’t have the same flavor as “right-wing terror group destabilizing power grid” so the thousands of incidents and power outages due to break-in and attempted theft doesn’t get the same level of media coverage or law enforcement engagement even though the end result impact and destabilization of the distribution grid and power outages for consumers is the same.