Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 11, 2025
Other Voices: Wary of unreliable energy
I just came across two news articles regarding wind turbines: “Solar Tech: China’s Trojan Horse” and “A new IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition.'”
The first article reported on the fact that “some of China’s solar inverters in the U.S. can be controlled from China via rogue communications equipment.” This means that the CCP or even hackers could remotely disrupt or turn off power supplies, which would result in power losses, blackouts or a damaged energy infrastructure.
Because China is the world’s largest exporter of power inverters, the threat is real. These devices connect wind turbines and solar panels to the power grids.
The second article covered the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal. “Preliminary forensics make clear that overenthusiastic deployment of unreliable solar and wind power” is what put 55 million people in darkness for days.
Reliability is more certainly accomplished by coal, gas and nuclear power supplies. I, for one, am not ready to depend on such unreliable sources of energy as wind and solar, especially with all the other negatives they entail.
Carolee Radline, Kane
