In his Daily Wire op-ed, Staate Armor Founder & CEO Michael Lucci argues that America’s rapid push toward “green” energy has created a dangerous national security vulnerability by embedding Chinese-linked technology deep inside the U.S. power grid. He cites reports showing that Chinese-made solar inverters and battery systems, many tied to the Chinese Communist Party and the military, are widely used in critical infrastructure and could be exploited for surveillance, disruption, or sabotage during a crisis.
In his op-ed, Lucci writes:
“A new report from Strider Intelligence revealed that solar inverters feeding electricity into the U.S. power grid are overwhelmingly manufactured by Chinese companies tied to Beijing’s government and military. These devices are connected to the same networks that power America’s hospitals and defense installations, keep communications and water systems running, drive manufacturing and transportation, underpin the financial sector, and enable emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing.
The Chinese inverters are present at a scale far larger than previously understood. Nearly every utility surveyed by Strider, representing roughly 12% of national electricity generation, relies on Chinese inverters.
As Strider warns, without decisive intervention, “the Chinese government, through its control over [government-linked] firms and data networks, could exploit this access to manipulate or disrupt the U.S. grid in a crisis.” Because these inverters occupy critical control points and can be controlled remotely, they give Beijing a degree of proximity no foreign adversary should ever possess inside American infrastructure.”
Read the full version of Lucci’s op-ed at the Daily Wire.
