BREITBART NEWS; Brussels is moving to block European Union funding going to clean energy projects that use Chinese solar panel equipment over the potential cybersecurity risks it poses to Europe’s power grid. The agreement would set the stage for more detailed nuclear negotiations, the site added.

The EU decision calls for a gradual replacement of Chinese-made solar power inverters  — a computer-driven “brain” used in solar power generation — from EU-funded projects. European Commission spokesperson Siobhan McGarry said the EU has decided to take “concrete action right now” against potential critical infrastructure risks coming from solar panel equipment built by Chinese giant Huawei.

Europe’s efforts to rely more and more on “green” renewable sources of energy — such as solar power — in favour of nuclear power and gas as part of its “Energy Security” paradigm has, paradoxically, left it susceptible to potential cybersecurity threats coming from the Chinese Communist Party regime, as China is the global hegemon producer of solar panels and inverter equipment.

Huawei, a company extensively linked and essentially run by the Chinese communist regime, is among China’s top solar providers. Huawei and some of its products have been outright banned by the U.S., the UK, and Canada over the glaring security risks of using equipment made by a An unnamed EU official spoke out to say “serious economic and cybersecurity risks” have been identified, an assessment that Euronews reported was drawn on both classified and non-classified information from multiple EU member states.

While the solar panel itself is a relatively benign piece of equipment, the digitally controlled inverters which convert the direct current (DC) electricity generated by the panels into usable alternating current (AC) for transmission and the power grid are a much different, potentially highly dangerous case.