US Executive Order On Energy Grid Supply Chain Security

What happened

On August 26, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to ban or restrict the acquisition (one company buying another) and installation of high-risk foreign-produced equipment in the U.S. Compliance with trade restrictions is no longer about proving where a device was built, but about how the product works.

The post US Executive Order On Energy Grid Supply Chain Security appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering . The order affects equipment, hardware, software and firmware used in generation, transmission or control facilities operating at 69 kilovolts or above: large transformers, grid-tied inverters, circuit breakers, battery energy storage systems, SCADA software and industrial control systems among them. Equipment used exclusively in local low-voltage distribution falls outside it, such as standard residential solar inverters and commercial distribution below 69 kV.