Hacker attack on solar systems: Germany was just a push of a button away from the super blackout

This is the solar park at Brückengraben near Anrode in Thuringia. It has a peak output of 800 kilowatts. This would mean it could supply around 250 households. But it is far too small to influence the state of the power grid.

However, there are many such and similar systems in Germany. The systems shown here have something in common: They use a component from the Chinese manufacturer Sungrow.

There are almost 250,000 such Sungrow systems throughout Germany with a total peak output of 7.8 gigawatts. So almost 10,000 times as much as the individual solar park. That's more than enough to throw the power grid out of sync.