Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 5/16/2025
China will use “any means necessary to spy on, steal from, or strangle our nation.”Legal Insurrection readers will recall that a sudden and unprecedented power outage struck the entire Iberian Peninsula in late April, plunging nearly all of Spain and Portugal into darkness for several hours.
The blackout, one of the largest in recent European history, also briefly affected parts of southern France and Andorra. Essential services, public transportation, telecommunications, and financial systems were severely disrupted. At least eight deaths have been linked to outage-related incidents.
While the cause was not related to a cyber-attack, such a security breach was an early consideration. There are reasons to be worried about solar power systems being hacked.
Recent investigations by U.S. energy officials have uncovered undocumented communication devices, referred to as “rogue” devices, embedded within some Chinese-made solar power inverters and related equipment.
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/u-s-officials-identify-rogue-communication-devices-in-china-built-solar-power-units/
