Cyber Resilient Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (XFACTS)
- Hitachi Energy, Raleigh, NC (United States); Hitachi Energy Research
- ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States)
This report summarizes the activities conducted under the DOE-OE funded project DEOE0000897, Cyber Attack Resilient Flexible AC Systems – XFACTS. Hitachi Energy (HE), in collaboration with ABB Inc. (ABB), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Iowa State University (ISU), and University of Idaho (UI) pursued the development of a system of defense for Flexible Alternating current Transmission Systems against cyber-attacks (XFACTS). A FACTS substation enhanced with XFACTS defense mechanisms will be capable of mitigating cyberattacks especially those that seek to control electrical parameters like voltage or current and interrupt the power flow in AC lines. It empowers existing FACTS controllers and associated intelligent electronic devices to detect and mitigate malicious intents to depress system voltages, destabilize power flows, trip AC circuit breakers, corrupt currents, and voltages, even if the malicious commands and the measurements have correct syntax. The XFACTS functions utilize the physics of active power electronic systems, control and protection, electric power engineering principles, and state estimation to bring more in-depth cyber defense closer to the protected FACTS substation devices.
- Research Organization:
- ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
- Contributing Organization:
- University of Illinois; University of Idaho; Iowa State University; Bonneville Power Administration
- DOE Contract Number:
- OE0000897
- OSTI ID:
- 1873108
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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