Impact analysis of transient stability due to cyber attack on FACTS devices

Author

Bo Chen ; Butler-Purry, Karen L. ; Kundur, Deepa

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) and digital computer controllers are increasingly integrated into the smart grid. This introduces cyberse-curity vulnerabilities which may cause system stability problems. In this paper, the modification attack on SVC and STATCOM in IEEE 39 bus system is simulated with DSATools^TM. Then the impact on the system transient stability is studied. The results show that some modification cyber attacks can make the system angle or voltage unstable under the proposed attack scenarios.

Keywords

flexible AC transmission systems; power system measurement; power system security; power system transient stability; smart power grids; static VAr compensators; DSAToolsTM; FACTS devices; IEEE 39 bus system; STATCOM; SVC; cyber attack; digital computer controllers; impact analysis; information and communication technologies; smart grid; system transient stability; Automatic voltage control; Power system stability; Reactive power; Smart grids; Stability criteria; Static VAr compensators; FACTS; STATCOM; SVC; cyber attack; cyber security; smart grids; transient stability; voltage support device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2013

Conference_Location

Manhattan, KS

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.2013.6666849

Filename

6666849