Project: Improvivng the robustness of urban electricity networks

Acronym	IRENE (Reference Number: 4211064)
Duration	01/05/2014 - 31/10/2016
Project Topic	In the smart city of tomorrow, energy generation and consumption will differ significantly from what we know today. Energy distribution system operators both existing and new, will be enabled to balance demand and supply by using smart grid technology. Much energy demand (heating, cooling and electricity) will be supplied by decentralized renewable energy and most of the new buildings will be able to produce and even store energy. IRENE aims at using evaluating how a decentralized energy generation in urban areas can allocate energy to supply critical infrastructures, should long term power outages occur. Its focus is on power outages caused by cyber-attacks and how dependability of urban electricity grids and their ICT infrastructure can be improved to overcome and mitigate these attacks through both social and technical means. The main goals are: • Design means to stop cascading energy system/energy dependent system failures by utilizing: islanding of both grid and ICT infrastructure (continuing operation autonomously) • Perform a quantitative model-based evaluation of developed example scenarios to evaluate security and dependability of the Smart Grids and connected infrastructures • Develop methods and policies for rating infrastructures criticality, minimum operational power requirements and dependencies, and smart grid configuration • Provide an analysis framework by which to evaluate the robustness of a given city scenario for different attacks.
Network	JPI Urban Europe
Call	JPI Urban Europe 2nd Call

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
4211064	FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien GmbH	Coordinator	Austria
4211214	Università degli Studi di Firenze - Department of Mathematics and Informatics	Partner	Italy
4211693	Ethos Vo Ltd	Partner	United Kingdom
4212430	University of Twente - CTIT	Partner	Netherlands
4220023	Queen Mary University of London - School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science	Partner	United Kingdom