A former technical manager employed by the wind farm operator Nordex has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service by a Dutch court. The sentence follows the discovery that the employee had used company infrastructure to power a clandestine cryptocurrency mining operation across two renewable energy sites. The rogue employee, a man in his forties, exploited his privileged access to the company’s internal systems between August and November 2022.
According to court proceedings in Assen,
