Solar Equipment Vulnerable to Cyberattack, Power Outage: Report (1)

With the growth of internet-connected solar power systems across the U.S. comes a greater risk of cybersecurity attacks on the electric grid, a report published Nov. 1 claimed.

The biggest potential problem is that a cyberhacker could access thousands of solar electricity system inverters and shut down the electricity provided to the grid, says the report by Ridge Global LLC, a consulting firm founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.

And the threat to solar-power systems could grow as U.S. solar power capacity could more than double in the next five years, according to projections.

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