Advanced cloud computing in smart power grid

Increasing complexity of power grid and its management, increase in demand and service quality expectations such as greater grid reliability, efficiency and security concerns have stimulated to Smart Grids that use bi-directional communication with the consumer to enable an information-driven approach to distributed energy management. Smart metering is one of the smart grid applications. The main problem with "smart meter" adoption is that trust is lacking in the actual "smart meters". Clouds computing offer features well suited for Smart Grid software platforms in computation storage, combining of information, analysis, and applications, such as elastic resources and shared services. However, the security and privacy concerns inherent in an information rich Smart Grid environment are further exacerbated by their deployment on Clouds. This paper focuses on proposing the Trustworthy Clouds or TCLOUDS on the smart power grid that will prove the simplest way such energy-preserving systems could be migrated to a cloud infrastructure while enhancing their resistance, privacy protection and tolerance, from both hackers and hardware issues.