Prof. Mohamed serves as a guest editor for MDPI Energies Special Issue “On the Interdependence between the Power Grid and Other Critical Infrastructures”.
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies entitled “On the Interdependence between the Power Grid and Other Critical Infrastructures”.
Improving on the protection and resilience of critical infrastructures (CIs) against natural disasters and manmade threats is an imperative global goal. CIs are intrinsically interdependent; therefore, the well-being of a CI may heavily rely on, and impact, the well-being of another. Examples of the rising interdependencies include the followings: (1) with the introduction of new technologies, e.g., distributed energy resources (DERs), smart inverters, microgrids, dispatchable loads, and EVs, the power grid will rely on information and communication technologies (ICT) for monitoring and control; whereas, the ICT network will rely on the power grid for electricity supply; (2) with the expected increase in the number of EVs on the roads in the near future, the mobility of people will become heavily reliant on the availability of the power grid. In order to meet the anticipated substantial demand due to EVs, the power grid will either have to go through a series of wide-scale infrastructure upgrades, which would be cost prohibitive, or rely on smart charging, which creates a new level of increased interdependence between the power grid, ICT and transportation networks. Other examples include interdependence between the power grid and water, food, and gas networks.
The particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Interdependence between the power grid and telecommunication, natural gas and oil, banking and finance, transportation, water supply systems, government services, and emergency service
- Food, Energy, Water Nexus
- Novel modeling approaches for critical infrastructure interdependencies
- Cyber-physical modeling of interdependent smart grid and telecommunications, and smart grid and e-transportation
- Applications of complex network analysis and graph theory in interdependent critical infrastructures
- Mitigation strategies for critical infrastructure interdependencies, e.g., applications of artificial intelligence for interdependency mitigation
- Cyber-physical hardware/software testbed setups for CI interdependency research
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed
Guest Editor