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Smart Grid for the Smart City
Modern cities are embracing cutting-edge technologies to improve the services they offer to the citizens from traffic control to the reduction of greenhouse gases and energy provisioning. In this chapter, we look at the energy sector advocating how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and signal processing techniques can be integrated into next generation power grids for an increased effectiveness in terms of: electrical stability, distribution, improved communication security, energy production, and utilization. In particular, we deliberate about the use of these techniques within new demand response paradigms, where communities of prosumers (e.g., households, generating part of their electricity consumption) contribute to the satisfaction of the energy demand through load balancing and peak shaving. Our discussion also covers the use of big data analytics for demand response and serious games as a tool to promote energy-efficient behaviors from end users
Research and Technology
Langley Research Center is engaged in the basic an applied research necessary for the advancement of aeronautics and space flight, generating advanced concepts for the accomplishment of related national goals, and provding research advice, technological support, and assistance to other NASA installations, other government agencies, and industry. Highlights of major accomplishments and applications are presented
Threat Scenarios and Monitoring Requirements for Cyber-Physical Systems of Flexibility Markets
The ongoing integration of renewable generation and distributed energy
resources introduces new challenges to distribution network operation. Due to
the increasing volatility and uncertainty, distribution system operators (DSOs)
are seeking concepts to enable more active management and control. Flexibility
markets (FMs) offer a platform for economically efficient trading of
electricity flexibility between DSOs and other participants. The integration of
cyber, physical and market domains of multiple participants makes FMs a system
of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). While cross-domain integration sets the
foundation for efficient deployment of flexibility, it introduces new physical
and cyber vulnerabilities to participants. This work systematically formulates
threat scenarios for the CPSs of FMs, revealing several remaining security
challenges across all domains. Based on the threat scenarios, unresolved
monitoring requirements for secure participation of DSOs in FMs are identified,
providing the basis for future works that address these gaps with new technical
concepts.Comment: Published in the proceedings of the 2022 IEEE PES Generation,
Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition - Latin America (IEEE
PES GTD Latin America
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