Special Issue "The Future of Cyber Security in Smart Grids"

Dear Colleagues,

Smart Grids are smart electrical networks that use digital technologies to service the power grid by enabling fine-grain data collection, management, and analytics. Digital technologies can support the decarbonization and decentralization of Smart Grids, and provide communication, interconnection, and interdependency between various critical infrastructures, increase grid visibility, enable proactive maintenance, and manage demand and supply. However, these digital technologies can introduce complex cybersecurity challenges in Smart Grids. For example, home appliances and products that were traditionally offline, are becoming online, so we need to protect these devices, applications, and data against cyber-attack and data privacy threats. These cyber-attacks have negative impacts of varying severity on Smart Grids, such as causing cascading failure, affecting the capability of the energy system to deliver a reliable service, manipulating the market, and misguiding the billing systems.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the latest understanding and development on cyber security challenges in future smart grids and to demonstrate solutions to mitigate the potential cyber threats and data privacy risks that smart technologies can introduce. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary work to be submitted.

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to cyber security in smart grids, data privacy in smart grids, cyber-physical systems, cyber mitigation techniques for energy systems, EV charging stations, smart metering, communication protocols, communication networks, peer-to-peer energy trading, transactive energy and community/collective self-consumption.

Dr. Zoya Pourmirza
Dr. Mustafa A. Mustafa
Dr. Roberto Metere
Guest Editors

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• cyber security in smart grids
• data privacy in smart grids
• cyber physical systems
• EV charging stations
• smart metering
• communication protocols
• communication networks
• peer-to-peer energy trading
• transactive energy
• community/collective self-consumption