Just Published: Resilience and Security Recommendations for Power Systems with Distributed Energy Resources (DER)

IEC TC 57 just published a Proposal of an IEC Technical Report (57/1514/DC) on

Resilience and Security Recommendations for Power Systems with Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Cyber-Physical Systems (proposed IEC TR 62351-12)

Comments are expected by 2015-01-16

While recognizing that the resilience of the power system to anomalous conditions has many components and extends far beyond the impacts of DER systems, the focus of this document is the role of DER systems in grid Resilience, including:

• DER System Resilience: The cyber security and engineering strategies for designing and installing DER systems to provide DER resilience to anomalous power system events and cyber attacks.
• Grid Resilience for Planning with Significant Numbers of DER Interconnections: The cyber security and engineering strategies for promoting grid resilience by studying the impact of and planning for interconnecting DER systems with the grid to promote grid resilience.
• Grid Resilience for Operations with Significant Capacity of DER Generation and Storage: The cyber security and engineering strategies for operating the grid with significantly large numbers and capacities of DER systems that can impact grid reliability and security.

It is highly recommended to review this document during the draft stage. It is more convenient to revise the draft now … than waiting until the document has been published as a final document. The content is very important for the future of power systems.

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