Thursday 26 August 2004

Organiser

Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, Sweden,
rune.gustavsson@bth.se

Overview

Out society depend increasingly on reliable and sustainable
infrastructure. Due to globalisation and deregulations those
infrastructures are becoming more and more
interdependent and intervened. A good example of this
interdependency is the emerging embedding of Information
and Communication Infrastructures into power nets.
Existing power nets have proved to be vulnerable, as
exemplified by large and costly power blackouts in Europe
and USA. Power blackouts also cause breakdowns of
information networks. Conversely, we have indications that
malicious Internet code (virus or Trojans) might have
caused, or contributed to, power blackouts. Finally, such
infrastructures are open with changing boundaries and with
requirements of setting up and maintaining missions on the
fly. Not the least, the behavior of the systems has to be
trustworthy for parties involved.
The presentations are based on, and extend, the European
project CRISP (ENK8-CT-2002-00673 Distributed
Intelligence in Critical Infrastructures for Sustainable Power)
in which all authors participate.

Programme

10h30 - 12h: Power Grid as a critical infrastructure

Power networks as a critical infrastructure - Nouredine Hadjsaid (INP Grenoble France)

  Distribution generation as a stabilization factor of power grids - Christophe Andrieu (Schneider Electric, France)

13h30 - 15h: Critical interdependencies between power nets and information nets - The virtual utility

The role of supporting information infrastructures of a virtual utility - Rune Gustavsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Challenges of future virtual power grids - Nouredine Hadjsaid (INP Grenoble France)