Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 52831

Solar Power and Wind Power: Security

Tabled: 16 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Sir Julian Lewis

ConservativeNew Forest East

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to investigate the security of UK (a) solar and (b) wind farms to ensure that there are no kill switches in Chinese-made inverter units installed in their structur

Answer

Michael Shanks
The Department works continually with Ofgem and the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure that regulations continue to capture the most critical operators of energy generation systems. Distributed and smaller-scale generation are key components of a sm...

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