Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM, Dutch and Euractiv, English). And this wasn’t the first time either something like this has happened (PV Magazine).
As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with their feedback, valuable insights and knowledge! This post was machine translated (not too well) from the original Dutch version, which was also more focused on The Netherlands.
The issue is that all these installations use solar inverters from a handful of big manufacturers, most of whom push their customers into using their cloud systems.
I agree that this is an issue, but the concerns over an attack seem far less deadly for a distributed generation technique like solar.
The issue is that all these installations use solar inverters from a handful of big manufacturers, most of whom push their customers into using their cloud systems.
Jup. That’s the part where it is fucked up. At this point it should be open source due to it controlling critical infrastructure.