Smart grids offer a cost-effective approach to fair and equitable power provisioning in urban areas. Applying smart grids to rural and remote areas that have no and/or intermittent access to national power networks, can be both expensive and logistically challenging. Smart micro-grids offer a suitable alternative but much be architected to protect against energy theft and privacy violation attacks. Protecting against both aspects is important in guaranteeing grid usability, trust, and reliability which are needed to ensure grid stability.
For economic reasons, such smart micro-grid architectures are designed to rely on distributed energy sources coordinated via a communication network based on low cost processing power poor computational devices. As such, the micro-grid is reliant on an amorphous distributed model of users who agree to cooperate to share electricity. The absence of a central trusted grid monitoring and management facility therefore requires a shift in conceptualization from the standard grid model.
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Posted 31-08-2016 on 08:41:15 AEDT