Satellite cyber attack paralyzes 11GW of German wind turbines

The communication channels affected are also used by photovoltaic systems.From pv magazine Germany. German wind turbine operators have reportedly been confronted with a fault in the satellite connection of their systems. Dominik Bertrams, MD of wind farm operator Tobi Windenergie Verwaltungs GmbH, yesterday announced on Twitter the remote monitoring and control of thousands of wind turbines had failed. With the outage having occurred between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Thursday - when the Russian army invaded Ukraine - Bertrams suspected a cyber attack by Russian hackers. The reason for the failure has ...

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