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Reminds me of this from 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Indeed - as a Bay area resident who drives into the central valley at least once a year and passes that substation, that incident is one of my favorite mysteries to ponder on the hours long drive.
As a kid I read the Cherub series (imagine a school of Alex Rider kids), and one of their missions was to pen test a Air Traffic Control station without causing any lasting damage. The metcalf incident strongly reminds me of this, leading me to believe it was likely done by Homeland Security, or the FBI to prove how vulnerable the electric grid is.
Maybe the work of some of these fine folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorgram

One pertinent reference: https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Critica...

I wonder why the word "terrorist" is missing in the headline, given that that's exactly how this should be characterized.
What’s the harm in waiting more than 27 hours after an event occurred before we start calling it terrorism?

It’s being investigated, news agencies are reporting on it, and as soon as they have actual evidence that it is terrorism I am sure that they will start using that word.

No they won't. Whenever in the US a white nationalist group does anything violent, it is never labeled as what it is: domestic terrorism. Or terrorism.
Nah they'll say it's a mentally ill lone wolf.

America only hates brown terrorists

Which terrorist group do you think is behind this kind of wintertime energy grid sabotage?
My country defines terrorism as follows:

"""

A terrorist act is an act or a threat to commit an act that is done with the intention of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause and intimidating the public or coercing or influencing the government by intimidation; and

1. Causes death or serious harm or endangers life

2. Causes serious damage to property

3. Creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or

4. Seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts or destroys critical infrastructure such as a telecommunications or electricity network

"""

I would assume the USA definition is broadly similar.

It doesn't need to be al-Qaida or ISIS running about to be a terror attack, sabotaging the power grid to shut down a drag show would clearly fit the definition.

Per the article, I'd assume the one that destroyed the generators to shut down a drag show.
This one:

One of the leading protesters, Emily Grace Rainey, claimed on social media that sheriff's deputies questioned her about the outages after she posted that she knew why it had occurred, WRAL reported Sunday morning.

    "I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage," Rainey, who rose to local prominence protesting COVID-19 restrictions, wrote on Facebook. "I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters."
In 2021, Rainey also resigned from her position as a psychological operations officer in the Army, after the Army investigated her for leading a group of people from Moore County to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol

Rainey claims to be the head of the Moore County Citizens for Freedom (MCCF). The group is a "nonpartisan network of Moore County Citizens dedicated to the promotion of conservative values in Moore County, NC, through education and activism," according to its Facebook page.