Duke Energy announced that it has disconnected Chinese-manufactured batteries from Camp Lejeune after lawmakers raised concerns to the Pentagon about security.
Duke Energy told Military.com that it disconnected the lithium batteries produced by the company CATL from the North Carolina installation’s energy infrastructure after “some concerns about this project” were raised.
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), a company directly funded and supported by the Chinese Communist Party, continues to pose national security risks to the United States. This past spring, CATL batteries were installed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, wrote.
Rubio and other senators sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, demanding the U.S. Department of Defense immediately reverse the decision to install CATL batteries at Camp Lejeune. The letter called for a full assessment of whether CATL systems have been installed at other U.S. military bases.
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