Sustained System Oscillation by Malicious Cyber Attacks on Distributed Energy Resources

Rojan Bhattarai; Sheikh Jakir Hossain; Junjian Qi; Jianhui Wang; Sukumar Kamalasadan

doi:10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585866

Sustained System Oscillation by Malicious Cyber Attacks on Distributed Energy Resources

Rojan Bhattarai
, Sheikh Jakir Hossain
, Junjian Qi
, Jianhui Wang
, Sukumar Kamalasadan

Energy & Environmental Science & Technology

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Abstract

In conventional power grids, the power system stabilizer (PSS) is designed to damp low-frequency oscillations. With the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER), the power system dynamics is continuously changing and the damping control design for PSS should be reconsidered. This paper demonstrates a cyber attack scenario in which the design flaws of the PSS are exploited and the power output of the DER is manipulated to cause sustained oscillations or even system instability. Test results on the Kundur two-area system with aggregated DER have shown that the proposed attack scenario can cause high-amplitude sustained oscillations. As a sustained oscillation mitigation methodology, dissipative energy flow (DEF) based technique has been implemented to detect the source of forced oscillation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538677032
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585866
State	Published - Dec 21 2018
Event	2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018 - Portland, United States Duration: Aug 5 2018 → Aug 10 2018

Publication series

Name	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Volume	2018-August
ISSN (Print)	1944-9925
ISSN (Electronic)	1944-9933

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Conference	2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	08/5/18 → 08/10/18

Keywords

Cyber attack
Cybersecurity
Distributed energy resources (DER)
Power system stabilizer (PSS)
Stability
Sustained oscillation.

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Bhattarai, R., Hossain, S. J., Qi, J., Wang, J., & Kamalasadan, S. (2018). Sustained System Oscillation by Malicious Cyber Attacks on Distributed Energy Resources. In 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018 Article 8585866 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2018-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585866

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Bhattarai, R, Hossain, SJ, Qi, J, Wang, J & Kamalasadan, S 2018, Sustained System Oscillation by Malicious Cyber Attacks on Distributed Energy Resources. in 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018., 8585866, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, vol. 2018-August, IEEE Computer Society, 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018, Portland, United States, 08/5/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585866

Sustained System Oscillation by Malicious Cyber Attacks on Distributed Energy Resources. / Bhattarai, Rojan; Hossain, Sheikh Jakir; Qi, Junjian et al.
2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018. IEEE Computer Society, 2018. 8585866 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2018-August).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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