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Publication date | 20/07/2020 |
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Host publication | Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2020 |
Pages | 333-339 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (electronic) | 9781728149646 |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Name | IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) |
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Volume | 2020-July |
ISSN (Print) | 1935-4576 |
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.