A Proposal for a Workshop on Designing Cyber for Future Energy Systems. To be Held in Washington DC, November 19-20, 2008

这是为期两天的研讨会的目标，以确定未来能源系统的愿景，并确定网络技术在塑造其性能的关键作用。本提案的智力价值本次研讨会的挑战是解决困扰电力系统的设计、规划和运行问题的概念化框架议程。其结果是一个既可靠又高效的基础设施。相同的框架对于在恶意攻击下保护电力系统将是有用的，即，使他们安全。研讨会必须反映当前正在进行的研究的自然进展和研讨会与会者达成的共同愿景。这种新的框架需要：（1）将电力系统建模为单一的技术、经济和政策动态过程，（2）控制工程和系统理论的进步，以分析利益的相互依赖性，并从技术、经济和政策信号设计接近最优的反馈，其中最优性是根据效率和可靠性来衡量的，以及（3）基于IT的控制算法的实现，经济和政策反馈到高度分布式和灵活的传感器和执行器。设想的方法必须将人类决策者视为系统的一部分。挑战在于如何将广义系统理论与IT和关键基础设施的特定建模相结合，使其有潜力成为灵活可靠的电力系统的支柱。拟议活动的更广泛影响本次研讨会的结果将被组织并作为特别报告提供给学术界使用，工业界和政府为追求未来的工作，使今天的电网与网络。因此，教育和研究工作将更加符合未来的需求。特别是，这些材料将提供给那些致力于培养电力能源系统领域未来领导者的大学。将讨论教育需求，作为实现所提出愿景的一种手段。期望研讨会的材料将成为急需的技术转让的基础，特别是将网络技术部署到下一代电力系统中。预计将出现的压倒一切的概念是，网络技术对于实施成本、环境影响和安全方面的权衡解决方案至关重要。

AbstractIt is the objective of the two-day workshop to define a vision for future energy systems and to identify the key role of cyber technologies in shaping their performance. THE INTELLECTUAL MERIT OF THIS PROPOSALThis workshop is challenged with an agenda of conceptualizing frameworks to solving the design, planning and operating problems that plague electric power systems. The result is an infrastructure that functions both reliably and efficiently. The same frameworks would be useful for protecting electric power systems under malicious attacks, i.e., making them secure. The workshop must reflect a natural progression of the current ongoing research and the joint vision arrived by the workshop participants. Such novel frameworks require: (1) modeling of an electric power system as a single technical, economic and policy dynamic process, (2) advances in control engineering and systems theory to analyze the interdependencies of interest and to design near optimal feedback from the technical, economic and policy signals, in which optimality is measured in terms of efficiency and reliability, and (3) IT-based implementations of control algorithms operating on technical, economic and policy feedback to highly distributed and flexible sensors and actuators. The envisioned approaches must consider human decision makers as part of the system. The challenge is to conceptualize how generalized systems theory, combined with IT and the specific modeling of critical infrastructures has the potential to become a backbone of a flexible robust electric power system.BROADER IMPACT OF THE PROPOSED ACTIVITY The results of this workshop will be organized and made available as a Special Report to be used by academia, industry and government for pursuing future work in enabling today's electric power grids with cyber. As a result, both educational and research efforts will be more aligned with the future needs. In particular, the material will be made available to universities which are engaged in preparing future leaders in the area of electric energy systems. The educational needs will be discussed as a means toward implementing the vision put forward.The expectation is that the workshop material would form the basis for badly needed technology transfer, in particular the deployment of cyber technologies into next generation electric power systems. The over-riding concept expected to emerge is that cyber technologies are essential for implementing tradeoff solutions with regard to cost, environmental impact and security.