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Communication and Network Security Requirements for Smart Grid

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Smart Grid Applications and Developments

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To relieve the problems of climate change due to global warming, increased renewable energy generation based on wind and solar has been advocated in the power grid. Due to the intermittent nature of such generation, and the requirement of real-time power balance between generation and consumption, increased renewable energy generation may cause instability in the power grid. The smart grid is an attempt to deploy information and communication technologies (ICT) on the power grid to solve the instability problem due to renewable energy sources. The smart grid also enables customer participation in such applications as differential pricing and demand response and promises improved grid operating efficiencies, self-healing capabilities, and resiliencies against cyber attacks. In this chapter, we discuss the communication and network security requirements for smart grid.

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Acknowledgment

This chapter republishes three figures from the paper “Communication-oriented smart grid framework” by Wen, M.H.F.; Ka-Cheong Leung; Li, V.O.K., Proc. IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Brussels, Belgium, Oct 2011. Permission for reusing the figures has been granted by IEEE.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Victor O. K. Li

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  1. Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

    Daphne Mah

  2. The Kadoorie Institute, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Peter Hills

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Victor O.K. Li

  4. Paris School of International Affairs and Centre d’Etudes Europeennes, Tsinghua University, Paris, France

    Richard Balme

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Li, V.O.K. (2014). Communication and Network Security Requirements for Smart Grid. In: Mah, D., Hills, P., Li, V., Balme, R. (eds) Smart Grid Applications and Developments. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6281-0_6

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