The new Conference publication by CERTH and CIRCE, entitled “Power System Resilience Enhancement and Restoration Strategies” has been presented in the 25th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), held in Chania Crete, in July 2025.
The motivation behind this research is the fact that the ongoing energy transition promotes digitized and decentralized systems which can be vulnerable to cyber and physical disruptions. Therefore, it is critical to have a plan against such threats.
In this context, the CERTH-CIRCE cooperative paper, which will also be published IEEE’s website, presents a multi-layered approach for power system resilience enhancement and restoration, comprising:
- CERTH/ITI’s real-time cyber monitoring tool, eSIEM, which collects data and calculates each asset’s health, also utilizing vulnerabilities databases, hypothesis reports and past mitigations action databases.
- CIRCE’s oscillation dumping controller, for high voltage applications, which, according to PowerFactory simulations, can eliminate coordinated attacks that would propagate in the entire power system and challenge its stability, even causing a blackout, and
- CERTH/CPERI’s black start optimization algorithm, in case a blackout happens, for medium voltage applications, considering a back-up generator, photovoltaics, a battery, critical and regular loads. The optimizer is verified with PowerFactory, proving the effectiveness of the proposed solution.
The Figure of the black start process, developed by the first author, Alexandros Kanousis, shows the steps towards power system restoration, with special focus on system stability as well as the optimal utilisation of photovoltaic production.
The authors of the research paper are Alexandros Kanousis, Maria Fotopoulou, Marta Bernal Sancho, Gonzalo Martin Sanchez Escriche, Georgios Rizos, Paschalis Gkaidatzis, Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Dimosthenis Ioannidis, and Dimitrios Tzovaras, and this study is a result of their cooperation in eFORT, especially at the stage of developing the algorithms that underpinned the project’s solutions implementation.
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