Virtual Power Plant Management in Smart Grids with XMPP Based IEC 61850 Communication

Furquan Nadeem, Mohd Asim Aftab, S.M. Suhail Hussain, Ikbal Ali, Prashant Kumar Tiwari, Arup Kumar Goswami and Taha Selim Ustun
Additional contact information
Furquan Nadeem: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar 788010, India
Mohd Asim Aftab: Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110025, India
S.M. Suhail Hussain: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama 963-0215, Japan
Ikbal Ali: Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110025, India
Prashant Kumar Tiwari: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar 788010, India
Arup Kumar Goswami: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar 788010, India
Taha Selim Ustun: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama 963-0215, Japan

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-20

Abstract: Communication plays a key role in the effective management of virtual power plants (VPPs). For effective and stable operation of VPPs, a reliable, secure, and standardized communication infrastructure is required. In the literature, efforts were made to develop this based on industry standards, such as the IEC 60870-5-104, OpenADR 2.0b and IEC 61850. Due to its global acceptance and strong object-oriented information models, IEC 61850 standard-based communication is preferred for smart grid operations, including VPPs. However, communication models based on IEC 61850 present cybersecurity and scalability challenges. To address this issue, this paper presents an eXtensible Message Presence Protocol (XMPP)-based IEC 61850 communication for VPPs. Firstly, a full mapping of IEC 61850 messages for VPP energy management is carried out. Secondly, XMPP-based single- and multiple-domain communications are demonstrated. Finally, a federation concept has been added to facilitate communication in multi-domain communication networks. These models show that a standard communication model can be implemented with IEC 61850 and XMPP, not only for VPPs but other wide-area communication implementations in smart grids. This not only facilitates plug-and-play (PnP) with easy component additions but secures smart grid communication against cyber-attacks.

Keywords: virtual power plant; cybersecurity; scalability; IEC 61850 communication; energy management; eXtensible Message Presence Protocol (XMPP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/12/2398/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/12/2398/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:12:p:2398-:d:241981

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().