Project description
Empowering resilience of energy systems
The Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES) is a complex yet critical infrastructure that is also vulnerable to cyberattacks. Protecting these systems is vital for the smooth operation of sectors like transportation, communication, industry, finance, disaster, response, water and energy. In this context, the EU-funded ELECTRON project will address the need to shield against a variety of threats – from cybersecurity incidents and privacy violations to electricity disturbances and severe human errors caused by a lack of relevant training. Specifically, the project will develop a new-generation EPES platform capable of empowering the resilience of energy systems through risk assessment, anomaly detection/prevention, failure mitigation and energy restoration.
Objective
In the era of hyper-connected digital economies, the smart technologies play a vital role in the operation of the Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES), transforming it into a new, decentralised model with multiple benefits, such as distributed generation, pervasive control, remote monitoring, and self-healing. However, the growing number of cybersecurity incidents in EPES promotes the need for shielding against a variety of threats, ranging from cyberattacks, dynamic and evolving Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), and privacy violations, to electricity disturbances and severe human errors caused by lack of relevant training. The diverse threats that modern EPES are facing require novel and holistic solutions that employ cutting-edge technologies to detect and mitigate threats, while continuously assessing the dynamic EPES environment, ensuring compliance with the latest cybersecurity standards and training the EPES personnel to appropriately respond to cybersecurity incidents and mitigate the human-error factor. Considering these, ELECTRON aims at delivering a new-generation EPES platform, capable of empowering the resilience of energy systems against cyber, privacy, and data attacks through four main pillars (risk assessment and certification, anomaly detection and prevention, failure mitigation and energy restoration, and addressing internal threats and gaps through AR-VR-based personnel training and certification), while fostering the cyber protection standardisation and certification via three novel authorities, namely the cybersecurity lighthouse, the cybersecurity training and certification authority, and the energy trading centre.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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Participants (37)
501 00 KOZANI
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92190 Meudon
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92500 Rueil Malmaison
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08019 Barcelona
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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104 32 Athina
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10443 Athens
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415 28 Goteborg
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07350 Havrylivka
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76014 Ivano-Frankivsk
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03164 Kyiv
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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7491 Trondheim
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11632 Athina
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5616 LZ Eindhoven
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2003 Nicosia
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50142 Firenze
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41300 LA RINCONADA SEVILLA
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8008 Strassen
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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1101 NICOSIA
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1678 Nicosia
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49527 Petach Tikva
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1080 Bruxelles / Brussel
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30003 Murcia
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41092 Sevilla
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28046 Madrid
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060011 Bucuresti
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010621 Bucuresti
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030786 BUCURESTI SECTOR 3
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060042 Bucharest
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41092 Sevilla
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1253 Luxembourg
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92190 Meudon
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501 00 KOZANI
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1010 Baku
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