Integrated Power and Transportation Systems Targeted by False Data Injection Cyberattacks in a Smart Distribution Network

Abstract

In smart distribution systems, electric vehicles (EVs) play a significant role due to their ability to serve as flexible loads (leading to demand response) or mobile distributed storage assets (facilitating the flexible production). However, rapid improvement of smart grid structure along with ongoing development of electric transportation systems via EVs result in several challenges, including but not limited to a higher vulnerability of the network to malicious cyberattacks. This chapter scrutinizes an organized attack framework, where an adversary targets EV aggregators by launching a false data injection (FDI) cyberattack, resulting in system congestions and potentially cascading power outages. More importantly, a remedial action scheme (RAS) based on coordination of distribution-level market operators (DMOs) and distributed generation aggregators is proposed in order to alleviate the impacts of the indicated attack using a secondary distribution-level electricity market. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is validated on the IEEE 33-bus distribution system, modified to contain distributed generation retailers and EV aggregators.