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

摘要：为期两天的研讨会的目标是定义未来能源系统的愿景，并确定网络技术在塑造其性能方面的关键作用。本次研讨会的挑战议程是概念化框架，以解决困扰电力系统的设计、规划和操作问题。其结果是一个既可靠又高效的基础设施。同样的框架将有助于保护电力系统免受恶意攻击，即使其安全。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参与者达成的共同愿景。这种新颖的框架需要：(1)将电力系统建模为一个单一的技术、经济和政策动态过程；(2)在控制工程和系统理论方面取得进展，以分析利益的相互依赖性，并从技术、经济和政策信号中设计出接近最优的反馈，其中最优性是根据效率和可靠性来衡量的；(3)基于it的控制算法实现，运行在技术、经济和政策上。经济和政策反馈到高度分布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。挑战在于概念化如何将广义系统理论与IT和关键基础设施的具体建模相结合，从而有可能成为灵活健壮的电力系统的支柱。本次研讨会的成果将作为一份特别报告进行组织并提供，供学术界、工业界和政府使用，以开展使当今电网具备网络能力的未来工作。因此，教育和研究工作将更加符合未来的需要。特别是，这些材料将提供给那些在电力系统领域从事培养未来领导人的大学。我们将讨论教育的需要，以落实所提出的愿景。人们的期望是，讲习班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。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.