Cyber-Physical Event Emulation-Based Transmission-and-Distribution Co-Simulation for Situational Awareness of Grid Anomalies (SAGA)

Xin Fang, Mengmeng Cai, Anthony Florita

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Abstract

Energy management of transmission and distribution networks (TD) is becoming more challenging with the accelerated adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs)-such as distributed photovoltaic generation and battery energy storage systems (BESS)-on the electric grid. To better analyze the impacts of DERs on both transmission and distribution systems, a comprehensive TD co-simulation platform is developed. Further, with DERs more actively participating in system operation-e.g., by providing real-time grid services-their cyber vulnerability needs to be better understood to maintain system reliability. This paper discusses a cyber-physical events emulation-based TD co-simulation platform to perform comprehensive cyber events emulations, physical simulation, and analysis of interdependent impacts. Results from the case studies-which show how cyber events on a synthetic distribution network can impact operations on the transmission and distribution network-validate that the proposed TD cosimulation platform can perform cyber-physical events emulation and produce response in near realtime; therefore, with extensive simulation using the proposed co-simulation platform, the system operators can accumulate adequate training data for system situational awareness of grid anomalies.

Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2021 - Washington, United States
Duration: 26 Jul 202129 Jul 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period26/07/2129/07/21

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-78189 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-6A40-82275

Keywords

  • anomalies detection
  • Cyber-physical system
  • situational awareness
  • transmission-and-distribution co-simulation

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