Biography
Biography: Prashant Pillai
Abstract
Smart Grid technology facilitates the integration of storage and renewables with the grid to ensure sustainability of electricity supply, mitigate rising power outages and help meet the rapidly rising demand for clean energy in urban and rural areas. Reliable, fast and secure communication infrastructure is required to attain these benefits of smart grids. Several communication architectures and protocols have been defined for efficient smart grid communications using terrestrial telecommunication technologies. ETSI Open Smart Grid Protocol, DNP-3, IEC 61850, etc, define the communications between devices in transmission, distribution and substation automation systems. IEC 62351 defines cyber security for the communication protocols defined by the previous four sets. This talk will also introduce the security and QoS requirements for smart grid communications and present the integration of Satellites with terrestrial communications for the purpose of connecting virtual power plants. Key security vulnerabilities, types of attacks and arising security challenges will be detailed. The talk will also present a comparison of some of the proposed security solutions and show the weakness in these. Finally the talk will present some novel cyber security mechanisms to provide efficient security in a modern power system.