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ICT-enabled smart grid devices, potentially introduce new cyber vulnerabilities that weaken the resilience of the electric grid. Using real and simulated PV inverters, this work demonstrates how cyber-attacks on IEC 61850 communications to field devices can force an unstable state, causing voltage oscillations or overvoltage situations in a distribution grid. An automated resilience mechanism is therefore presented, combining intrusion detection and decentralised resilient controllers, which is demonstrated to assure stable operation of an energy system by counteracting cyber-attacks targeting embedded PV inverters.
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Kang, B. et al. (2020). Intrusion Resilience for PV Inverters in a Distribution Grid Use-Case Featuring Dynamic Voltage Control. In: Nadjm-Tehrani, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11777. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37670-3_8
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