Category Archives: Infraestructuras críticas

XXX Curso Internacional de Defensa

El próximo 26 de septiembre tengo el honor de impartir la conferencia titulada Desafíos a la seguridad de las nuevas fuentes de energía en el XXX Curso Internacional de Defensa. Se unen en esta ponencia mis dos temas de investigación: la seguridad y la transición energética. El curso tendrá lugar en Jaca (Huesca) del 25 al 29 de septiembre y será inaugurado por Josep Borrel, Alto Representante de la Unión Europea para Asuntos Exteriores y Política de Seguridad.

Programa completo en: https://ejercito.defensa.gob.es/unidades/Zaragoza/agm/Catedra/2023/XXX_CID.html

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Final report – Project REDCRIT

We have developed the research project REDCRIT between 2017 and 2019 to assess the vulnerability of gas and electricity transmission infrastructures in Spain.

FINAL PROJECT REPORT – DOWNLOAD HERE

PROJECT TITLE: Scale-free networks for analysis of vulnerability and resilience of interdependent infrastructures

(http://redcrit.unizar.es)

Granted by: Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad. Proyecto ENE2016-77172-R

IEEE Smart Grid October 2018 – Robustness Assessment of Interdependent Gas and Electric Power Transmission Systems Against Cyber Threats

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Newsletter October 2018

Robustness Assessment of Interdependent Gas and Electric Power Transmission Systems Against Cyber Threats

By Jose M. Yusta and Jesus Beyza

In 2018 hackers gained access to the control centers of US electric utilities, allowing them to control the status of switches and affect the power flow. IEEE PES Task Force on Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures has addressed graph theory as an emerging technology on the vulnerability assessment of cascading failures. In this exact sense, we develop a robustness assessment of highly interdependent gas and electric power transmission systems applying a cascading failure methodology based on graph theory in complex networks. A real 400-kV electricity transmission network and an 80-bar natural gas transmission network have been jointly evaluated by means of a graph composed of 2031 nodes and 2154 links. The deliberate disintegration of the tightly coupled networks would only require eliminating approximately 1% of the nodes, confirming the weakness of the energy infrastructures against new cyber threats.

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Conference IEEE Andescon 2018, Cali (Colombia)

It has been a great experience attending the conference IEEE Andescon 2018, Cali (Colombia) from 22 to 24th August 2018, as invited speaker in the two following activities:

Tutorial course: “Techniques for Evaluating Reliability, Robustness and Resilience in Power Systems” http://ieee-andescon.org/tutorials.html

Keynote speaker: “Vulnerability of energy infrastructures: new challenges, new solutions”  http://ieee-andescon.org/keynotes.html

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