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The federal opposition seems to think it has discovered a \u201cgotcha\u201d to argue against the proliferation of rooftop solar PV \u2013 and against Australia\u2019s renewable energy target: Chinese hardware.<\/p>\n

Senator James Paterson is leading the charge, fresh from his success in persuading the government to discard Chinese CCTV cameras (here at tech publication iTnews<\/a>) and calling for the same to happen<\/a> to 3000+ DJI drones owned by government agencies (disclosure: the author writes for iTnews).<\/p>\n

Now, Paterson has the solar business in his sights, taking to News Limited outlets to tell the world that Chinese solar inverters could be used to bring down Australia\u2019s grid.<\/p>\n

This Sky News video<\/a> posted to YouTube says almost all you need to know about the senator\u2019s campaign in the chyron: \u201cChinese spy concerns in solar power market\u201d.<\/p>\n

To quote Senator Paterson from the video:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are inverters that are internet-connected, and their role is to connect the solar panels on the roof of your home or business to the grid and make it work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem that we have is that the smart inverters \u2026 are predominantly made by Chinese companies, including companies like Huawei.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The senator believes there\u2019s a \u201ccritical mass\u201d of devices at which they become \u201ca significant proportion of our electricity grid\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat could be disrupted by an external party, by a signals intelligence agency like the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s cyberspace force or the Ministry of State Security cyber hacking unit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How Great a Risk?<\/h2>\n

China-baiting has proven fruitful for conservative politicians worldwide ever since they began campaigning against Huawei from supplying major telecommunications projects like 5G networks and the NBN.<\/p>\n

In this case, the China-baiting appears to have at its heart the opportunity to attack the government over its ‘82% by 2030’ renewable energy target, because the target will bring more Chinese kit into Australia\u2019s solar PV supply, increasing our exposure to whatever the Chinese Communist Party has in mind.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to think that attacking the renewables target, rather than a genuine understanding of the cyber security risks, is the point of the coalition\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

And it would be a travesty if renewable energy targets became hostage, yet again, to political point-scoring.<\/p>\n

So how genuine are the risks?<\/p>\n

Regular readers will know that I believe the solar PV industry needs to take cybersecurity seriously and that security vulnerabilities have been found<\/a> (and fixed) in inverter products.<\/p>\n

However, the risk of a critical security vulnerability \u2013 such as an unsecured login to an inverter \u2013 isn\u2019t dependent on a product\u2019s country of manufacture. Any internet-exposed device with a vulnerability can be exploited by any attacker that finds it.<\/p>\n

Senator Paterson appears to be hinting that the Chinese vendors are building secret backdoors into their products \u2013 that one day ten thousand Huawei inverters<\/a> (or Growatt<\/a> or Solax<\/a> or Sungrow<\/a> or any of many) will be taken over by state-backed Chinese hackers to bring down the grid.<\/p>\n

At the very least, Senator Paterson is assuming that there is no way to stop this happening.<\/p>\n

And that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

For one thing, grid-connected, internet-connected inverters don\u2019t exist in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re part of a Virtual Power Plant<\/a>, they\u2019ll be controlled by a third party who manages the import and export of grid electricity from the battery. If they are part of a Flexible Exports<\/a> program (currently mandatory in SA and optional in QLD) a third party will control how much solar can be exported to the grid.<\/p>\n

These programs are not managed by a consumer who doesn\u2019t understand cyber security \u2013 they should be in the hands of organisations with cyber security expertise familiar with the Australian Signals Directorate\u2019s Essential Eight<\/a> cyber security control list, and its Australian Information Security Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the very least, organisations controlling fleets of inverters can ensure that smart inverters communicate with the network management centre over an encrypted channel and don\u2019t make connections to or from Chinese network addresses.<\/p>\n

And if the organization controlling thousands of inverters through the cloud is one of the big genetailers (AGL, Origin, Energy Australia, etc.), they’ll be in the hands of companies that already invest millions in security and are subject to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That Act was initiated by the previous government \u2013 the one of which Senator Paterson was a part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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