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OP, I wish you would stop spreading rumors. As others have pointed out, there's no real evidence these allegations are credible.
For more context, nearly all modern solar equipment and energy storage devices (like Tesla Powerwalls) come with cellular equipment for firmware updates and production monitoring when there isn't a better connection available. It's just how it's done nowadays, it's not inherentely nefarious.
Now for some critical thinking. What does China really gain from taking out PV power sources? Those power sources are only producing power less than half the time people need it. Wouldn't it be better to attack the 24/7 baseload power producers like a gas powerplant? If you take out the PV that gas plant will compensate, just like it does when it's cloudy. For this reason there's little point to attacking the auxillary, intermittent power sources.
The "theory" is that they'd shut off multiple big solar farms during peak, to damage the grid. But it's literally just propaganda.
The personal-use solar inverters that let you check power generation from your phone, let you turn them off from your phone as well. And some people and groups have tried to shift that narrative to "ermegerd remote killswitches in industrial scale inverters". But those aren't hooked up to the internet and they're usually in grounded metal boxes. You can't easily get an outside signal to them.