Achieving net-zero carbon emissions necessitates the major transformation of electrical grids into smart grids. In this context, urban districts play a crucial role in the flexible balancing of electricity demand and supply, which involves solving ...

In the event of failures, it is essential that the distribution network can autonomously adjust its topology structure to satisfy the power supply requirements. Therefore, how to reconstruct the distribution network is crucial for the development ...

Substations are critical components of the smart grid since compromising them can lead to significant consequences, such as blackouts. Threat modeling aims to model different ways critical networks, such as substations, can be attacked. Attack ...

In the field of energy systems, the "WCCI(CEC)/GECCO 2024 Competition Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Optimal PV System Allocation" serves as a platform for evaluating and comparing various metaheuristic algorithms tailored to address ...

The smart grid has now been fully implemented with a robust defense system that is built on the primary security principles of “security zoning, network specialization, horizontal isolation, and vertical authentication.” The secure cryptographic module ...

The rapid increase in reliability, security, timeliness, and efficiency of power communication services puts forward higher requirements for the integrity of power grid fusion communication systems. The individual needs of different services make the ...

Extreme weather events and fast-paced adoption of green energy technologies have led to new challenges in demand-side management, maintaining grid reliability, and fulfilling variable consumer demands One of the effective ways to address these ...

Since the energy domain is in a transformative shift towards sustainability, the integration of new technologies and smart systems into traditional power grids has emerged. As an effective approach, Petri Nets (PN) have been applied to model and analyze ...

This paper aims to enhance the detection of power quality disturbances (PQDs) in smart grid (SG) systems using four deep learning (DL) models: Vgg19, ResNet50, MobileNetV3-L, and ViT-H. We have developed a method to convert 1D PQD signals into 2D ...

With the phasor measurement units (PMUs) being widely utilized in power systems, a large amount of data can be stored. If transient stability assessment (TSA) method based on the deep learning model is trained by this dataset, it requires high computation ...

The confluence of the internet of things (IoT) with smart grids has ushered in a paradigm shift in energy management, promising unparalleled efficiency, economic robustness and unwavering reliability. However, this integrative evolution has concurrently ...

The decentralization of modern power grid systems in this new era of advanced communication and information technology to enhance efficacy and efficiency has created a new class of privacy challenges which requires innovative approaches. In recent times,...

Modern smart grids utilize advanced sensors and digital communication to manage the flow of electricity from generation source to consumption points. They also employ anomaly detection units and phasor measurement units (PMUs) for security and monitoring ...

Abstract. Internet of Things (IoT) plays an important role in smart grids. Software-Defined Internet of Things (SD-IoT) employs the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as the network architecture of IoT in smart grids. Hence, in smart grids, SD-IoT can ...

Smart grid communication networks are facing the increasing challenge of heterogeneous facilities and diverse communication requirements. Traditional communication technologies without the ability to adapt cannot meet these requirements. A data-driven ...

The modern electric power grid, known as the Smart Grid, has fast transformed the isolated and centrally controlled power system to a fast and massively connected cyber-physical system that benefits from the revolutions happening in communications (such ...

Smart grid is a revolutionary concept that came to renew the way the power systems are thought. However, for these systems to be possible it is necessary and recommended that the consumers have the right technology integrated in their houses, in ...

In this paper, we put forward a novel DER aggregation framework, encompassing a multiagent architecture and various types of mechanisms for the effective management and efficient integration of DERs in the Grid. One critical component of our architecture ...

This paper studies the statistical observability of the power grid with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission while satisfying the QoS requirement, which is characterized by effective capacity. The problem is to maximize the observability ...

This paper studies the observability of the power grid with wireless fading channels under statistical QoS requirement, which is characterized by effective capacity targeting the strict latency constraints of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). We ...