EU to cut funding for Chinese inverters as quiet offensive replaces grandstanding 👍
At a top-level meeting of her 26 department chiefs in March, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quietly approved a plan to stop EU funds from going to clean technology projects containing Chinese inverters.
Inverters are the essential power electronics at the heart of solar and wind systems. Industry groups estimate that Chinese companies led by Huawei Technologies control more than 220 gigawatts of Europe’s installed solar capacity via the devices.
Why is it good news? Cyber-security and backdoors are one reason[^2], European inverter manufacturers struggling to compete with cheap imports from China, which are cheap thanks to use of forced labour, cheap energy, state subsidies, low import tariffs.
[^1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350056/eu-cut-funding-chinese-inverters-quiet-offensive-replaces-grandstanding
[^2]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
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