Autonomic computing is a bio-inspired vision elaborated to manage the increasing complexity of contemporary heterogeneous, large scale, dynamic computer systems. This paper presents a series of scenarios relative to micro smart grids – district-size “smart” electricity networks. These scenarios involve situations where autonomic management approaches could provide promising solutions. They ther...

Smart Grids are becoming a reality all over the world. Nowadays, the research efforts for the introduction and deployment of these grids are mainly focused on the development of the field of Smart Metering. This emerging application requires the use of technologies to access the significant number of points of supply (PoS) existing in the grid, covering the Low Voltage (LV) segment with the low...

This paper proposes an Optimal Power Flow (OPF) algorithm by Direct Load Control (DLC) programs to optimize the operational cost of smart grids considering various scenarios based on different constraints. The cost function includes active power production cost of available power sources and a novel flexible load curtailment cost associated with DLC programs. The load curtailment cost is based ...

Nowadays, the smart grid is a very important topic within the energy domain. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines the smart grid as the modernization process from the current power grid to the power grid of the future. Whereas monitoring, protection and automatic optimization play key roles along the whole energy value chain (central and distributed generation , ...

Here, we overview the Energies journal special issue that is dedicated to topic of “Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes and Grids” (https://www [...]

Due to the massive increase of green energy, today’s power grids are in an ongoing transformation to smart grids. While traditionally ICT technologies were utilized to control and monitor only a limited amount of grid systems down to the station level, they will reach billions of customers in near future. One of the downsides of this development is the exposure of previously locked down communi...

Smart grids utilize Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to increase efficiency and reliability, by managing dynamics in power grids. However, ICT opens additional vulnerabilities affecting critical infrastructures, by increasing their attack surface. According to Igure et al. [1] legacy control systems experience an increasing number of attacks, as they were developed for good performa...

An attack graph is a beneficial tool to network defenders, demonstrating the routes that an attacker can utilize acquire entry target network. Cyber-attacks endanger security of smart grids as result presence vulnerabilities in diversified structural units establishing it. This paper introduces new built using Python language and Jupyter Notebook enumerate for grid. The grid formally presented ...