From Smart Grid to Energy Internet Recent Advances in Security and Resilience

The security and resiliency of energy internet (EI) present significant challenges on how to control and maintain access to critical system resources and services at the physical layer of EI as well as on how to ensure the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information exchanged at the cyber and business layers. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, 5G communication, blockchain technologies, P2P trading, industrial and consumer IoT, transportation electrification, and high-penetration of DERs, require creating new approaches, mechanisms, toolsets, and recommended practices to make sense from the multi-layer interaction of commands and data and better characterize the flexibility and adaptation of EI in the face of high-impact security and resiliency events. Consequently, cyber discovery, vulnerability assessment, rapid risk mitigation, and resilient control of modern large-scale EI systems should consider the interdependence between the cyber, physical, and business layers of EI. In this proposed panel, current state-of-the-art methods of development in security and resiliency into the EI domain and how EI multi-network/multi-levels/multi-layers affect the interdependencies of the Energy and Internet pillars of EI will be presented. We will bring together experts from academia, national labs, and utilities and have them presenting their perspectives and works on the topic’s emerging needs. The panel is aimed at engineers, scientists, researchers, educators, students, industrial utility experts, and other stakeholders who are engaged in PES community, research and education.