Denmark finds ‘suspicious' components in key infrastructure imports
It has raised concerns about the potential for remote disruption of the power supply or digital espionage, coming a week after the US claimed to have identified 'kill switches' in a consignment of solar panels and batteries from China.
So far the Danish authorities have been tight-lipped about the nature and apparent purpose of the extra electronics, as well as which country they had come from.
• Chinese 'kill switches' found hidden in US solar farms
Green Power Denmark, an umbrella group for 1,500 Danish renewable technology companies, said the components from 'the East' had been
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