Recently, Australian Senator James Paterson once again stirred up a dispute with China, this time focusing on the inverter.
According to a report by foreign media SOLARQUOTES on July 25, Australian Senator James Paterson (James Paterson) is taking the lead in launching this action. He has just successfully persuaded the government to abandon China's closed-circuit television cameras (cameras of Chinese brands such as Haikangwei and Dahua). And called on government agencies to do the same for the more than 3,000 DJI drones they own.
Now Mr Paterson has set his sights on the solar business, declaring that solar inverters from Chinese companies could be used to take down Australia's power grid .
In an interview with local media, Patterson said, "These are inverters connected to the Internet, and their role is to connect solar panels on the roof of a home or business to the grid and make them work.." The problem we face is that smart inverters..
The senator believes there could be a threat of a "critical mass" of equipment reaching "an important part of our power grid.".
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Paterson even accused Chinese companies of building secret backdoors into their products – and one day threatening Australia's grid security.
At the very least, he sees no way to prevent this from happening.
SOLARQUOT ES believes that at a time when attacking China to achieve certain goals has become a "trend", it is easier to think that the focus of the campaign is to attack renewable energy targets rather than to really understand the risks of cyber security. It would be a farce
if renewable energy targets were once again held hostage to political blackmail.
In practice, the risk of a critical security breach (such as an unsafe inverter) does not depend on the country in which the product is manufactured. All vulnerable Internet devices can be exploited by any attacker who discovers them.
On the one hand, grid-connected inverters do not exist in a vacuum.
If they are part of a virtual power plant, they will be controlled by a third party that manages the import and export of battery grid power. If they are part of grid exports (currently mandatory in South Australia and optional in Queensland), a third party will control how much solar can be exported to the grid.
These controls are not administered by consumers who do not understand cyber security-they are controlled by professional organisations within Australia.
Currently, the organization that controls the inverter group can ensure that the smart inverter communicates with the network management center through an encrypted channel and does not establish a connection beyond that. On
July 28, Goodway , an inverter manufacturer , said in an e-mail to RenewEconomy that "Goodway.." With a strong commitment to data security and adherence to the highest cyber security standards in our products and operations, given recent concerns about security risks associated with smart inverters and Chinese ownership in Australia's energy sector, we assure our customers, partners and consumers that we are committed to We take these issues extremely seriously.
"Transparency and compliance are at the core of our corporate values.". We comply with all applicable laws and regulations in China and other countries where our products are distributed. "Our company operates independently from external influences, and we can assure our customers that our smart inverters are manufactured with the highest data security standards in mind," the statement said. Where do
absurd remarks come from? According to US media OILPRICE, Paul N. Stockton, a senior researcher at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, who attended a congressional hearing on July 18, declared
at a House Energy and Commerce hearing that. "Chinese manufacturers are important producers of inverters, and their inverters have been deployed throughout the United States", and the dependence of the United States on Chinese inverters may endanger grid security.
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