[quietsegfault]

My solar production data is fed to my ISO so I can sell clean energy vouchers. My solar installer just called me the other day asking if I had a tree shading a panel, because production on that panel was low. There are plenty of reasons to have internet connected solar equipment.

[egorfine]

Outbound connection to your provider with stats? Good.

Random connection to any IP especially on China territory? Absolutely not.

[inigyou]

But that IP is your provider, and the data being sent is stats.