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On the Feasibility of Market Manipulation and Energy Storage Arbitrage via Load-Altering Attacks

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  • Juan Ospina

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)

  • David M. Fobes

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)

  • Russell Bent

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)

Abstract

Around the globe, electric power networks are transforming into complex cyber–physical energy systems (CPES) due to the accelerating integration of both information and communication technologies (ICT) and distributed energy resources. While this integration improves power grid operations, the growing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) controllers and high-wattage appliances being connected to the electric grid is creating new attack vectors, largely inherited from the IoT ecosystem, that could lead to disruptions and potentially energy market manipulation via coordinated load-altering attacks (LAAs). In this article, we explore the feasibility and effects of a realistic LAA targeted at IoT high-wattage loads connected at the distribution system level, designed to manipulate local energy markets and perform energy storage (ES) arbitrage. Realistic integrated transmission and distribution (T&D) systems are used to demonstrate the effects that LAAs have on locational marginal prices at the transmission level and in distribution systems adjacent to the targeted network.

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  • Juan Ospina & David M. Fobes & Russell Bent, 2023. "On the Feasibility of Market Manipulation and Energy Storage Arbitrage via Load-Altering Attacks," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(4), pages 1-16, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:4:p:1670-:d:1060873
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