Integrated energy cyber–physical system fusion modeling and operation state analysis under the cooperative attack

Abstract

With the increasingly close coupling between the cyber system and the physical system, cyber attacks have a significant impact on the physical system by attacking the cyber system. As a cyber–physical system with multiple energy sources, integrated energy cyber–physical system (IECPS) is facing the risk of cyber attacks. However, the research on IECPS is still in the direction of operation optimization at the physical level, which cannot meet the requirements of system security and stability analysis under cyber cooperative attacks. Firstly, this paper analyzes the interaction mechanism between the energy network composed of electricity, heat and gas and the cyber network in IECPS, and put forward a layered modeling method of IECPS to analyze the influence of abnormal information flow caused by cyber attacks on energy flow. Secondly, based on the energy circuit method (ECM), a hybrid calculation method of IECPS energy-information flow is proposed to solve the model. Then, the load shedding state of IECPS and the tampering process of system control commands after the fake data injection attack are analyzed by using the proposed calculation method. Finally, the simulation analysis is carried out in an integrated energy system composed of IEEE 39-node power grid, 6-node heating network and 7-node gas network. The results show that, compared with the traditional Newton–Raphson method, the proposed IECPS hybrid calculation method can better obtain the change results of energy flow in the steady-state scenario and the cyber cooperative attack scenario, and identify the high-risk branches in the system, which is of great significance to the safe and stable operation of the energy system.