Cybersecurity in Smart Grids

Cybersecurity Strategies for Smart Grids

Today, the development of information and communications technologies have changed the utility landscape dramatically. In particular, electricity distribution networks rely heavily on a multitude of intelligent systems and devices that communicate among each other in much more advanced ways than in the past. As the Smart Grid is becoming nowadays a critical component in the electricity delivery...

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment in Smart Grids

Smart grids will make extensive use of information and communication technology (ICT) to enable the integration of renewable energy sources. Consequently, future power grids come with a much larger cyber-attack surface, which makes cybersecurity risk assessment a major concern. Due to their cyber-physical nature, risk assessment in smart grids is a challenging task. Moreover, the complex mix of...

Cybersecurity in the Smart Grid

In the past, the easiest way to attack the electrical grid would have been to physically access and destroy components. However, with the introduction of the smart grid and its increased dependence on information and communication technologies (ICT), the future grid may be vulnerable to pernicious cyber attacks performed remotely. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we are studying the properties of the en...

Smart Grids

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We build a system dynamics model to evaluate the potential dynamics of consumer adoption of “Smart Energy Behaviour”. Within this term we include different levels of: i) shift in electricity consumption towards less costly-less polluting and congestioning hours; ii) the reduction of mainly wasteful electricity consumption, that maintains similar levels of comfort; iii) the enrolment in demand r...