Impacts of the EU inverter ban

The European Commission (EC) is restricting European Union funding to solar projects using Chinese-made inverters, due to the perceived risks of cyberattacks and blackouts. But are European suppliers ready to scale up production and challenge China’s monopoly? Andreas Walstad reports.

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Andreas Walstad

25 Jun 2026

Photo: Lauri Veerde, CC-BY-SA 4.0

The European Commission (EC) is restricting European Union funding to solar projects using Chinese-made inverters, due to the perceived risks of cyberattacks and blackouts. But are European suppliers ready to scale up production and challenge China’s monopoly? Andreas Walstad reports. The EC has explicitly identified solar inverters from Chinese suppliers as a high-risk dependency due …

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