The operation of thousands of wind turbines is further restricted due to a disruption in the satellite connection.

At the large German wind turbine manufacturer Enercon, 5,800 systems in Central Europe are affected, as the company announced in Aurich on Wednesday.

Enercon is working flat out on a solution.

The remote monitoring and control of the systems with a total output of eleven gigawatts has only been possible to a limited extent since Thursday (February 24) - that was the day of the Russian attack on Ukraine.

However, the systems are in operation and producing energy.

Until the problem is solved, they should run in automatic mode and regulate themselves independently.

The Green European politician Niklas Nienaß linked the disruption to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"An attack by Russian hackers on a satellite network that controls the systems could be to blame," said Nienass in Brussels.

Disruption affects 30,000 satellite terminals

The disruption affects the communication channel of the service to the systems.

In the event of a problem, the fault could not be remedied remotely, a team would have to drive to the plant.

According to Enercon, the grid operators have unrestricted access to the systems in order to control their behavior in the power grid.

Since the systems are part of the critical infrastructure, Enercon reported the incident to the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The company is in close contact with the authority, it said.

Enercon is trying to end the disruption with the providers of the satellite communications network.

At the same time, alternative communication connections are to be set up, according to a statement on Tuesday.

According to Enercon, around 30,000 satellite terminals used by companies and organizations across Europe are affected by the disruption.

Green politician Nienaß warned: "The incident shows that elementary areas of our society are now dependent on satellite technology." This critical infrastructure in Europe must be better protected." If Russian hackers were behind the disruption, "then they certainly didn't want German wind turbines attack, but paralyze the Ukrainian internet service".

But the German systems were just hanging along with it.