VeN2uS: VerNetzte NetzschUtzSysteme - Adaptiv und Vernetzt

Subproject: Reliable and Secure Communication

Motivation

Due to renewable energies, the power grid topology is facing a radical change. In conventional power grids, a relatively low number of power plants generates energy regulated upon current needs. However, the integration of decentralized energy resources (DER), e.g., solar cells or wind power, creates new feed-in points at the transmission grid level, and their produced energy is highly volatile as it depends on outer influences, e.g., the weather. Hence, DERs can cause back-feeding into the superordinate grid level whenever energy production and consumption in subparts of the grid are unbalanced. As a result, network topology changes are already necessary several times a day and are expected to be required even more often in the future. If uncontrollable conditions for the existing protection concept are detected in the course of these topology changes, immediate action must be taken and the DER must be disconnected.

Project Objective

The objective of the VeN²uS research project is to develop and implement an adaptive and networked grid protection system that adapts the protection parameters in the event of power flow shifts and topology changes and ensures safe operation. For this purpose, an adaptive grid protection algorithm is first developed and verified. In parallel, resilient and reliable communication and protection test concepts are developed. Subsequently, the development paths are merged, i.e., the adaptive and interconnected network protection system is verified by demonstration in the laboratory and (for the first time in Germany) also in field trials.

COMSYS’ Objective

COMSYS aims to research communication mechanisms that achieve high resilience against failures and meet the latency requirements of adaptive network protection. In addition, COMSYS explores how to simultaneously achieve high-level hardware-based communication security necessary for critical network protection functionality. As a result, we target reliable and secure communication for the exchange of network protection data.

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Consortium

The VeN2uS Consortium consists of several German partners with expertise in various areas of smart grids and secure communication.

  • Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG
  • LEW Verteilnetz GmbH
  • Siemens AG
  • SAE IT-systems GmbH & Co. KG
  • PSI Software AG
  • OMICRON electronics Deutschland GmbH
  • amperias GmbH
  • IAEW – RWTH Aachen University
  • COMSYS – RWTH Aachen University
  • EES – Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • IEET – Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)


Publications

Ina Berenice Fink, Markus Dahlmanns, Gerrit Erichsen, Klaus Wehrle. Resilient Control Center to Substation Device Communication. Proceedings of the CIRED Chicago Workshop 2024 on Resilience of Electric Distribution Systems, Nov 7 - Nov 8, 2024, Chicago, IL, United States. November 2024.
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Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Gerrit Erichsen, Guosong Lin, Thomas Hammer, Burkhard Borkenhagen, Sebastian Schneider, Christof Maahsen, Klaus Wehrle. Reliable and Secure Control Center to Station Device Communication. Proceedings of the CIRED workshop on Increasing Distribution Network Hosting Capacity 2024, Jun 19 - Jun 20, 2024, Vienna, Austria. June 2024.
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Ina Berenice Fink, Markus Dahlmanns, Klaus Wehrle. Poster: Resiliente Kommunikation für die Fernwirktechnik in digitalen Umspannwerken. VDE ETG/FNN-Tutorial 2024 Schutz- und Leittechnik, Mar 5 - Mar 6, 2024, Leipzig, Germany. March 2024.
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Markus Dahlmanns, Andreas Wark, Carl-Heinz Genzel, Klaus Wehrle. Poster: Trusted Execution Environment-basierte Sicherheit für digitale Umspannwerke. VDE ETG/FNN-Tutorial 2024 Schutz- und Leittechnik, Mar 5 - Mar 6, 2024, Leipzig, Germany. March 2024.
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Markus Dahlmanns, Constantin Sander, Robin Decker, Klaus Wehrle. Secrets Revealed in Container Images: An Internet-wide Study on Occurrence and Impact. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS ‘23), Jul 10 - Jul 14, 2023, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. July 2023.
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Tobias Lorz, Johann Jaeger, Antigona Selimaj, Immanuel Hacker, Andreas Ulbig, Jan-Peter Heckel, Christian Becker, Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Klaus Wehrle, Gerrit Erichsen, Michael Schindler, Rainer Luxenburger, Guosong Lin. Interconnected grid protection systems - reference grid for testing an adaptive protection scheme. 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023), Jun 12 - Jun 15, 2023, Rome, Italy. January 2023.
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Matthias Lorenz, Tobias Markus Pletzer, Malte Schuhmacher, Torsten Sowa, Michael Dahms, Simon Stock, Davood Babazadeh, Christian Becker, Johann Jaeger, Tobias Lorz, Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Klaus Wehrle, Andreas Ulbig, Philipp Linnartz, Antigona Selimaj, Thomas Offergeld. Interconnected network protection systems - the basis for the reliable and safe operation of distribution grids with a high penetration of renewable energies and electric vehicle. Proceedings of the CIRED workshop on E-mobility and power distribution systems 2022, Jun 2 - Jun 3, 2022, Porto, Portugal. January 2022.
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