With Chinese inverters on solar panels in the US, could we be giving access to China for potential sabotage?
CHAMBERSBURG – Solar panels have become the newest thing in getting electricity from the sun in recent years.
We are starting to see them in a variety of spots around the world.
Recent reports showed power inverters from China are used in a number of the solar panels that have been installed – and there were radio devices discovered in some of them.
The inverters bring electricity into the grid.
Michele Jansen of NewsTalk 103.7FM pointed out, “They are really thinking now they could sabotage solar panel fields, the grid itself. Europe’s in bigger trouble than we are. They’re thinking that the outage in Italy and Portugal could have possibly been because of testing being able to wipe out the solar fields, because they have a lot more than we do. They say 78% of all inverters installed in Europe in 2023 came from Chinese vendors. I’m going to keep saying this until I’m blue in the face. Josh Shapiro needs to change that deal he just made with PJM. People forget the reason the prices were going to go up is because of all the demands for sustainable renewable energy, which does not and cannot give us the energy that now we know AI is going to demand. That’s why the whole electric vehicle thing is going off the grid here, going off the rails here, and why we need to have Josh Shapiro renew that deal he made with them. We do not need more connections from the solar panel fields onto our grid. We really need to shore it up and make it strong, not only for the power that we’re going to need in the near future, that the government is going to be mandating for AI and the industry will be coming in for, but to make sure that we have security, national security, I’m sorry all you people who bought the nonsense of the solar panel fields and what we’re putting on top of school buildings now, that’s all going to become just garbage, and unfortunately, dangerous garbage, as it has plenty of dangerous chemicals in those solar panels themselves. We can’t afford to take the chance of ruining our grid because you were promised some kind of sustainable energy here.”
Attorney Clint Barkdoll said, “As I recall, Reuters broke that story a few weeks ago about these inverters, whether it’s on your house, or big commercial type solar arrays that you see out when you’re driving. There were national security experts in that report, saying they were concerned that Chinese actors could interfere and sabotage these systems that would then knock out parts of the grid, if not all of the grid. They were encouraging people to check your inverter. If you have one of these Chinese products, and odds are you do, you might want to look at swapping them out, or have someone look at it. The tidbit in that story was some people got those inverters and started to disassemble them, and it was when they disassembled them, they found all of these parts inside that had nothing to do with converting the energy from the panel to the grid and that’s when they started to realize many of these were embedded with products to do surveillance or to do other things that could knock out or disrupt electricity.”
