Cyber-Secure Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
ApplyProject Description
This research project aims to contribute towards a resilient and secure power system employing power electronics for renewable energy sources (RES) integration. The goal is to examine the security implications of integrity and availability attacks in power transmission and distribution systems, and examine the performance and economic impact on real-time energy market operations. Risk assessment methodologies will quantify attack resources under certain level of adversarial knowledge. The objective is to enhance system cyber-(resiliency, security), while addressing disruptive cyber-physical events and preventing these effects from escalating into major failures and hence causing cascading blackout scenarios.
Program -
Electrical Engineering
Division -
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
Faculty Lab Link -
https://sentry.kaust.edu.sa/
Field of Study -
Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science
About the
Researcher
Charalambos Konstantinou
Desired Project Deliverables
1. Improve an existing power system benchmark to support certain RES and their corresponding controllers.
2. Impact evaluation of attacks at the various connection points.
3. Examine effects of attacks on market operations.
4. Identify methods to improve system performance.