European Requirements for R

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European Requirements for RD in Information
Infrastructure Dependability Interdependency of
ICT and Electric Systems.Vulnerability and
dependability issues
Bruxelles, Sept. 19, 2002
DDSI, AMSD, ACIP Workshop

• Angelo Invernizzi, CESI S.p.A
• Technical Scientific Promotion

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The electric system as the most crucial
infrastructure

• Electricity supply is substantial to economic and
  social life
• Many other infrastructures depend on electricity
• transports
• health care systems
• information and communication

Information Communication Technology is the
base of many functions performed by Electric
Systems
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A changing electricity market (to comply with EU
directive 96/92 on market liberalisation)

• Open market and competition will push to use
  electric grid transmission capacity to the limit
• National and cross-border energy transactions
  will exponentially grow (see next slide)
• Open market, technology advancement, sustainable
  development requirements are moving electric
  systems towards the Distributed Utility concept
  (see next slide)

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The UCTE System 2100 Twh delivered to 400 ML
people
UCTE - Union for the Co-ordination of
Transmission of Electricity
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Towards the distributed utility concept
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The changes in Electrical System are growing the
interdependency with ICT infrastructures An
open, flexible and distributed ICT infrastructure
is required

• Five areas
• monitoring and control of the whole system in a
  national and continental scale
• monitoring and control of generation,
  transmission, and distribution plants
• energy trade
• customer/supplier relations
• operation of active distribution networks

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THE NEXT CONTROL SYSTEM
RTUs (field) Remote Terminal Units
Transmission Grid OwnersTC
 
Remote Consolle
22 SIA-R
3 Grid Teleoperation Centres
National Control Centre
ICCP WAN
3 Integrated Control Centres
Producer Monitoring and Control
Power Producers
SIA-C/R Central/regional nodes of the
telecommunication network
System Operator
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ICT to support intelligent, decentralised energy
supply
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Electrical system vs. ICT a growing
interdependency

• The electric systems will rely more and more on
  open communication networks and off-the-shelf
  systems
• enormous advantages vis-a-vis cost reduction,
  flexibility, interoperability, standardisation
• growing vulnerability to malicious attacks and
  accidental faults
• many off-the-shelf computing systems are not
  designed for safe applications

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Growing security requirements for electric
systems call for

• development of innovative hardware and software
  systems for
• monitoring and off / on-line security assessment
  of electric systems, at a national or continental
  scale
• secure and safe operation of active distribution
  networks with high penetration of distributed
  resources
• providing advanced service to the customers

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Growing security requirements for electric
systems call for (cont)

• development of
• novel architectures,
• testing procedures,
• standards and rules,
• dependability assessment methodologies
• of distributed monitoring and control systems

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from Dependability to Survivability
As regards information and communication
technologies it is needed to proceed

• dependability trust on the system capacity to
  provide the service it is designed for
• survivability capability to fulfill its mission
  in the presence of attacks failures and accidents

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RD priorities

• Survivability analysis methodologies based on
  modeling and simulation
• Self-healing architectures and technologies
• Testing specifications, methodologies and
  infrastructures

Methods to guarantee dependability and
survivability are to be adapted to open,
interdependent and multi-jurisdictional
infrastructures
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Multi-operator interoperability requirements

• Growing needs for cross sector and intra-sector
  information sharing move to the definition of
  organisational and technical standards i.e.
• standardisation of communication, command and
  control protocols
• specifications of application and equipment
  interfaces
• standardisation of specifications

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Collaboration among EU countries is a must

• Electric system structure and the relevant design
  and operation criteria are already based on
  common standards
• Growing integration of European Electric Systems
  is expected in the short term
• External factors (i.e., market pressure, business
  opportunities, changes in the technical
  environment) are a common denominator acting in
  all the EU countries

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• The same factors push to co-ordinate at an
  international level RD programs.

• Actions to be pursued could be
• exchange of information,
• comparison of objectives and results of RD
• programs,
• joint RD projects on specific issues

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