The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has responded to senators’ request that FERC ban Huawei inverters in the interest of cybersecurity.
“My colleagues and I at the Commission will continue to work with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and our federal partners including the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security to assess the threat posed by Huawei and take additional action as appropriate,” writes Commissioner Neil Chatterjee in the letter addressed to Senator James Risch (R-ID).
A group of 10 senators sent a letter to Commissioner Chatterjee in December asking him to ban Huawei solar inverters, writing, “Huawei-produced inverters connected to the U.S. energy grid could leave it vulnerable to foreign surveillance and interference, and could potentially give Beijing access to meddle with portions of America’s electricity supply.”
The Financial Times reported Huawei shut down its U.S. solar inverter operations in June 2019 after facing criticism from the Trump administration and Congress.
“A group of 10 senators sent a letter to Commissioner Chatterjee in December asking him to ban Huawei solar inverters, writing, “Huawei-produced inverters connected to the U.S. energy grid could leave it vulnerable to foreign surveillance and interference, and could potentially give Beijing access to meddle with portions of America’s electricity supply.”
Yeah, let’s get REAL here, China has the market on most electronics and chip sets manufactured. The China 2025 ‘program’ is pushing for 75% manufacture of all electronics products sold in the World. Apple has Foxconn building I phones, LENOVO was once IBM laptops and on and on. IF Huawei is a concern, what about all of the other technology being produced by China right now? It would be fairly simple matter to insert a “back door” communications circuit in every communications chip made while doing the mask for the chip manufacturing line. Key on a chip’s MAC address and stream data any time one wants. We have already had a “conversation” on smart phones being “locked down” to the point of the manufacturers not being able to “break into the phones”. Law enforcement says they “need” to be able to “unlock” any phone to gather information in criminal cases. It’s the old, “If you don’t have anything to hide, there’s nothing to worry about”. Apparently there is plenty to worry about.