Smart Micro-Grid Systems Security and Privacy

This book is centered on Smart grids and micro-grids, as a cost-effectivemethod of ensuring fair and equitable access to power in urban areas. Italso considers scenarios where deploying smart grids can be both cost-prohibitivelyexpensive and logistically challenging. Deploying smart microgridsinstead, offers a reliable power solution but, as is the case in smartgrids, a key issue is guaranteeing usability, trust, and reliability whileprotecting against energy theft. This book considers aspects such as stateestimation, capacity planning, demand forecasting, price signals, anddemand management with respect to energy theft. Straight-forwardapproaches to provoking energy theft on smart grids and micro-gridsinclude mis-recordings power consumption/generation information andexposures of personally identifiable information or sensitive information.Attack models based on mis-recorded generation and/or consumption dataand exposure of personally identifiable information, are also studied. Ineach case, countermeasures are proposed to circumvent the power theftattacks raised. Researchers in Smart Micro-grids security, cyber-physicalsystems, and critical infrastructure will want to purchase this book as a reference.Professionals, Researchers, Academics and students working in securitygeneral and Security of Critical Infrastructure, Privacy, and Data Sharingwill also want to purchase this book as a reference.