US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.
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Reuters reported the presence of undocumented and “rogue” communication devices in a number of Chinese-made solar inverters. These could potentially introduce unregulated and undocumented remote communication channels to the inverters, by which an actor could remotely bypass the cybersecurity firewalls that utility companies use to prevent direct communication back to China.
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Not naming the manufacturers is very disappointing
Ok, what are European vendors for inverters? I really want solar, but I would prefer local vendors.
Fronius, SMA, Victron.
The unfortunate bit is that apparently e.g. Huawei inverters are extremely reliable, whereas e.g. cheaper SMA models are not.
Fronius is Austrian and there are a few others but none producing microinverters that I’m aware of. If you are doing an install with no shading issues during the day, regular inverters are preferable though since the costs are cheaper and there’s no DC-AC-DC loss if you include a battery backup.
Hmmm. Unnamed “people” of some unnamed US spook organization find rogue devices in an undisclosed number of Chinese solar inverters and batteries of not named brands which alerts Europe. Smells fishy.
Hmmm. Unnamed “people” of some unnamed US spook organization find rogue devices in an undisclosed number of Chinese solar inverters and batteries of not named brands which alerts Europe. Smells fishy.
100% after no evidence ever emerged about the supermicro motherboards with supposed spy chips on them… and everyone that actually bought them called bullshit, we should maintain a healthy degree of scepticism.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… but really any evidence would be nice.
fuck china, taiwan ftw :D
Spain reconsiders possibility of hackers causing blackouts
The possibility of the blackouts being caused by a cyberattack was immediately considered, though the grid operators in Spain and Portugal both said at the time there was no evidence of hacking, a point that was echoed by authorities and politicians.
Now, reports suggest Spanish authorities are investigating whether smaller power generators were a weak link that was exploited by cyber criminals to target the electricity grid, according to the Financial Times …
[The original FT article is behind a paywall.]
