This chapter provides summary of the achieved Project objectives related to the scientific goals, national institutions and industry participation, training, infrastructure enhancement and international cooperation.
Scientific goals
The list of Project goals which are successfully achieved are as follows:
• Study and assessment of the current status of SCADA issues related to the emergent phenomena in power systems (emphases on Italy and Croatia);
• Assessment of priorities in future needs for new SCADA testbed architectures;
• Analyzing a novel architecture for SCADA interactions modeled for increased reliability and security, based on cooperative agent negotiation and physical integration;
• Procurement and installation of working laboratory for testbed research and development;
• Testbed subsystems development and functional integration;
• Dissemination of project results to the students, researches, industry and international scientific community.
There are also goals to be completed in the near and longer term future:
• Analyzing and proposing a novel architecture for SCADA interaction modeling based on cooperative agent negotiation with formal and empirical proof of the improvements in reliability and security;
• Developing a common understanding of industrial needs and requirements regarding the reliability and security of new power systems, accompanied by a raising awareness program reaching all end-users;
• Identifying and disseminating best practice, possibly in a joint endeavor between manufacturers and end users, resulting in a joint capability and technology taxonomy for reliability and security;
• Development and deployment of a SCADA testbed platform as a complete platform for simulation and analysis of emergent phenomena in power systems.
Participation by other national institutions/industries
Many institutions were contacted and involved in the project at various stages, through direct contributions in know-how, providing feedback on questions or data for exploratory purposes.
Participation is more developed with the following institutions: United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Croatia office; Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Zagreb (FER), J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek (ETFOS); Croatian power company (HEP); Croatian Ministry of economy, labor and entrepreneurship (MINGORP); Adnet Ltd.; Solvis Ltd.;.
The following institutions are going to participate more in the future: Končar KET Ltd.; Croatian Energy Regulatory Agency (HERA); Institute for research and development of defense systems;
Training and international co-operation
Training goals were achieved with selected focused trainings and combined programs available at scientific conferences of interest.
• CRM Asia (LL), 2-10, May 2010
• PSAM10 (ZS), Seattle, WA, USA, 6-12, Jun 2010
• IEEE PES GM (LL), MN, USA, 24-29, Jun 2010
• Global Clean Energy Forum (LL), Sep 30- Oct 01 2010
• IEEE PES ISGT (ZS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 - 13, Oct 2010
• Logica Comp. Center for Smart Technology (LL), London, UK, 2-7, Nov 2010.
• AnyLogic Training (ZS, BM, IS), Paris, FR, 1-3, Nov 2010.
• MIT Energy Conference (LL), Boston, MA, USA, Feb 25- Mar 07, 2011
• IEEE PSCE 2011 (ZS), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 20-23, March 2011.
• IAEA workshop on NPP risk monitors (ZS), 11-16, April 2011, Prague, Czech Rep.
• Eurelectric Conference on sustainable city electricity (LL), 12, May 2011
• IEEE PES CC Meeting, Trondheim (ZS), 2011, 18-19, May 2011
• Managing SCADA Security Risks (LL), 25-26, May 2011.
• IEEE NPEC Meeting (ZS), Dana Point, CA, USA, 25-27, July 2011
• IEEE SGC (ZS), Brussels, Belgium, 17-20, October 2011
• Smart City Expo & World Congress (ZS), Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
• IEEE NPEC Meeting & DistribuTECH Conf. (ZS), 21 – 29, Jan. 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA
• 'Ensuring IT Security for Energy Infrastructure' (LL), May 24 – 25, 2012, Berlin, DE
• ANS Annual Meeting (ZS), June 22 – 28, 2012, Chicago, IL, USA
• 'Black Hat USA 2012' and 'Defcon 2012' (LL), 21 – 29, July 2012, Las Vegas, UA
• EC JRC-IET, Petten, NL (BM, NH) 16-22, January 2013.
International cooperation is established with following organizations: European Commission Joint Research Center Institute for Energy and Transport, IEEE PES and IEEE NPEC.
Enhancement of scientific infrastructure
The list of major software tools is as follows: PowerWorld 15 with educ. license, AnyLogic 6 (international educ. and research license), Algor Simulation pro. 2011 edu. license, ANSYS GAMBIT/Tgrid Research license for 2012 and 2013, GOTHIC Numerical Applications 2013, Server data acquisition & proc. (TB), and PLC Solar application (RE3).
Computers funded from the Project are as follows: server IBM X3550M3, 4 desktop PCs, 6 laptops and one tablet.
Equipment is used to create measurements and distributed generation systems as follows: SG1, measurement & control (PQube and other components), RE1, Solar system connected to the grid (1.2 kW), RE2, hybrid distributed generation connected to grid with energy storage (400 W solar & 600 W wind), RE3, solar characterization system (five stations with complete measurements for six panels).
