Cybersecurity for Resilient Energy Communities of the Future
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Linköpings universitet - Linköpings tekniska högskola Inst f datavetenskap IDA |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 7 957 123 |
| Project duration | November 2023 - June 2026 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Advanced digitalization - Enabling technologies |
| Call | Cyber security for industrial advanced digitalization 2023 |
Important results from the project
The project largely achieved its goals by developing guidelines for secure energy communities. Results include collaboration models, technical reference architectures, attack scenarios, anomaly-based detection, privacy-preserving monitoring, and methods for combined safety and cybersecurity risk assessment. The project also contributed to the follow-up project RECAP: Resilient Energy Communities with Advanced Protection (financed by the Swedish Energy Agency).
Expected long term effects
In the long term, the results can support safer digitalisation of Swedish energy systems and strengthen Swedish industry’s ability to develop, procure, and offer secure flexibility services, battery storage, and energy communities. This can support the climate transition by enabling wider use of renewable energy and distributed resources.
Approach and implementation
The project was carried out through use-case analysis, stakeholder and collaboration analysis, technical modelling, simulation, development of threat and risk assessment methods, workshops, and scientific publication. The work focused on commercial flexibility, cloud-controlled battery storage, cyber-physical attack scenarios, anomaly-based intrusion detection, and methods for connecting functional safety and cybersecurity.