The US Federal Highway Administration (FHA) has warned that cellular radios were found in non-specified foreign inverters and batteries used in PV Highway Infrastructure, according to Reuters. PV -Magazine Talks with cyber security expert Uri Sadot about the risks.
The FHA of the US Department of Transport has issued a warning that hidden cellular radios have been found in non-specified foreign inverters and batteries used in PV Highway Infrastructure, according to a recent report from Reuters, who had cited a four-page security note.
“American officials say on solar energy-powered highway infrastructure, including chargers, weather stations along the road and traffic cameras must be scanned for the presence of rogue appliances-as hidden radio-separated in batteries and inverters,” stated the item of Reuters, without details.
“This internal advice that was sent within the US Department of Transport on 20 August still does not provide a clear direction about which equipment is suspected, and whether something has been found, which seems to be a matter of a high public interest for me PV -Magazine.
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Sadot said that to arrange large amounts of PV capacity remotely, the manufacturers of original equipment do not need Rogue devices because residential and light commercial inverters have already been designed to be maintained remotely via the internet. He noted that there are few regulatory measures that tackle this in the United States or Europe, apart from actions in countries such as Lithuania, Iran, China and Taiwan.
“China has perhaps taken the most effective and early measures, with its 2019 MLPS 2.0 regulations that determine serious restrictions to foreign parties that want to install remotely controllable distributed energy sources on its schedule, including PV-Omsorers, heat pumps and EV-charger infrastructure, which must be managed by a chaines-cure.” “India has also started taking dramatic, fast steps with the recent reporting requirements for the government for inverters and distributed generation sites, but we have not seen much in the United States, while there is now an accelerated PV risk assessment in Europe, whose effectiveness has to be defined.”
Sadot described the Reuters article as ‘frustrating vague’.
“It is almost six months since the original article by Reuters was published, and we still have to see a ‘smoking gun’ in the form of a public, well-documented exit of an inverter that contains illegal communication devices. So the burden of proof has not yet been achieved,” he said.
He referred to another article by Reuters from May, in which it is said that inexplicable communication devices were found in some Chinese inverters in the United States.
At the time, the agency reported that American energy officials reassured the risk of Chinese devices, referring to two public sources. The number of devices surveyed was not announced. Reuters It also claimed that one source revealed that non -papier communication devices were found in some batteries of multiple Chinese suppliers.
At the end of May, SolarPower Europe insisted on the European Union to implement strict cyber security instructions for solar power rackage, after findings of components without papers in energy equipment imported into Denmark.
This week the Cszechies Cyber Security Office said that Chinese solar plants in small power plants form a potential safety threat. The briefing of the national cyber and information security agency of the country said there are risks with regard to data protection and, in extreme cases, external manipulation. It also said that inverters can be vulnerable to cyber threats through the collection and abuse of user data, as well as the possibility of malignant applications or firmware updates.
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