Featured in The Quality Issue – 04-2019

“Distributed energy resources are the solution”

As new features and capabilities are added, inverters are increasingly becoming understood to be the ‘intelligence’ behind a rooftop PV array. But does that introduce security concerns? The issue has certainly come in for some attention, with a group of U.S. politicians calling for more scrutiny into the security implications of solar inverters, but the issue may be overblown, responds Thomas Tansy, the Chair of the SunSpec Alliance.

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Christian Roselund

02 Apr 2019

Thomas Tansy, the chair of SunSpec Alliance. | Image: SunSpec Alliance

Is it possible an inverter manufacturer could insert a “kill switch” to remotely deactivate a number of inverters at will?There’s no mechanical kill switch as far as I understand. Within the context of smart inverter technology, there are various functions for limiting real power and steering real power. That’s part of the standard function set. …

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