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Towards a Systematic Approach for Smart Grid Hazard Analysis and Experiment Specification.

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  • Paul Smith
  • Ewa Piatkowska
  • Edmund Widl
  • Filip Pröstl Andrén
  • Thomas I. Strasser
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Publication date20/07/2020
Host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2020
Pages333-339
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)9781728149646
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameIEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
Volume2020-July
ISSN (Print)1935-4576

Abstract

The transition to the smart grid introduces complexity to the design and operation of electric power systems. This complexity has the potential to result in safety-related losses that are caused, for example, by unforeseen interactions between systems and cyber-Attacks. Consequently, it is important to identify potential losses and their root causes, ideally during system design. This is non-Trivial and requires a systematic approach. Furthermore, due to complexity, it may not possible to reason about the circumstances that could lead to a loss; in this case, experiments are required. In this work, we present how two complementary deductive approaches can be usefully integrated to address these concerns: Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a systems approach to identifying safety-related hazard scenarios; and the ERIGrid Holistic Test Description (HTD) provides a structured approach to refine and document experiments. The intention of combining these approaches is to enable a systematic approach to hazard analysis whose findings can be experimentally tested. We demonstrate the use of this approach with a reactive power voltage control case study for a low voltage distribution network.

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