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An Overview of the Functions of Smart Grids Associated with Virtual Power Plants Including Cybersecurity Measures

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Technological Innovation for Connected Cyber Physical Spaces (DoCEIS 2023)

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The use of renewable energy is on the rise and is expanding ever so greatly in this modern age of technology. However, it comes with a new set of challenges to properly integrate these renewable energy-based power plants thus forming a virtual power plant safely and reliably into the power grid in which a smart grid plays an effective role. The main focus of this paper is to review the functions a modern-day smart grid plays in the integration of distributed energy resources to the grid to form a virtual power plant including cybersecurity measures. It also addresses a basic example of the detection of a cyber-attack caused into the grid assuming it to be manipulated by a hacker together with a novel solution and later validated by performing simulation.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955614.

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    Anas Abdullah Alvi, Enrique Romero-Cadaval & Eva González-Romera

  2. Energy Products and Services, Badajoz, Spain

    Jamil Hassan

  3. Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology, 12616, Tallinn, Estonia

    Dmitri Vinnikov

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Alvi, A.A., Romero-Cadaval, E., González-Romera, E., Hassan, J., Vinnikov, D. (2023). An Overview of the Functions of Smart Grids Associated with Virtual Power Plants Including Cybersecurity Measures. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Ferrada, F. (eds) Technological Innovation for Connected Cyber Physical Spaces. DoCEIS 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 678. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36007-7_7

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