The document discusses several issues facing a power utility in enabling the energy transition: 1) Using electric vehicles for backup energy storage to address insufficient grid capacity for EV charging stations. 2) Accommodating two-way energy and information flows as well as capacity increases on the grid. 3) Rolling out smart meters while respecting privacy and managing large amounts of data. 4) Combining smart city initiatives around technologies like self-healing microgrids. It also addresses securing the infrastructure against threats in an environment of cloud computing, mobile devices, and applications through approaches like layered authentication, authorization, and encryption.

1. Enabling the Energy
Transition in times of
Cloud, Apps and
BYOD
Hope is not a strategy
Alliander IT CIO Office
Michel de Goede

2. Issue # 1: Electric vehicles
• Roll out of thousands of electric vehicle charging stations
• Grid Capacity is insufficient
• What if we use cars as backup energy storage?

3. Issue # 2: Two way traffic
Monetary flow
Information flow
Transmission
Trade/PRP/
Shipper
Distribution SupplyMeteringProduction
Physical flow
© Jeroen Scheer, Alliander, 2011
• Flows change
• Capacity increase

4. Issue # 3: Smart metering
• Roll out of 5 Million Smart Meters (Gas + Electricity)
• Inform customer regarding energy consumption and create
awareness
• Respect privacy concerns
• Manage the potential data ocean

5. Issue # 4: Smart city initiatives
• Combination of various techniques (Amsterdam)
• Self healing and self regulating micro grid (Bronsbergen)

6. Issue # 6: Smart grid
• Accommodate higher peaks and two-way traffic through intelligence
• Accomodate energy transition scenario’s through intelligence
• Provide the necessary information to all parties involved

7. Issue # 7: Staff

8. Issue # 7: Staff
• Nowadays, everyone wants to be a manager

9. Issue # 7: Staff
• And prefers to work like this…..

10. Answer # 1: Digitize work
• Get ‘ye olde drawings’ off the wall
• Combine workflow with documents
• Make sure the data is accurate
√ √

11. • Signal anomalies
• Analyze, analyze & analyze
• Help with repairs
• Everything in near real-time
• Different life-cycle
• Different breed of people
Answer # 2: Integrate IT & OT

12. Answer # 3: Manage centrally

13. Answer # 4: Solve decentrally
• The problem is fractal
• Think in levels of control circuits
• Home, block, area, mid-voltage area, etcetera

14. But then
• How do we get all this information HERE?????

15. Landscape build-up

16. Keep it secure
• Layering our landscape
• Multi level authentication and authorization
Operational
systems
Stepping
stone Area
IT systems

17. Keep it secure
Internet
(open)
Access Management
(access layer)
Representation
(presentation layer)
Authorization Management
(application layer)
Application
1
Application
2
Application
n
May I enter the house?
What goods and services
am I allowed to
use in these rooms?
Any device
Offices
(closed)
For which rooms do you
give me the key(s)?

18. Keep it secure
Key Management
Identity
Management
Security
Management
Network Access
Control
Firewalls
Intrusion
Detection /
Protection
Audit Anti-Virus VPN’s
Event Monitoring /
Correlation
Authentication Authorization Confidentiality Integrity Encryption
• Perform as many as possible of these activities
© IBM / Cisco, Smart Grid Reference Architecture

19. And what about cloud?
Internet
(open)
Access Management
(access layer)
Representation
(presentation layer)
Authorization Management
(application layer)
Application
1
Application
2
Application
n
May I enter the house?
What goods and services
am I allowed to
use in these rooms?
Any device
Offices
(closed)
For which rooms do you
give me the key(s)?
What goods and services
am I allowed to
use in this room?

20. Or BYOD and apps?
Internet
(open)
Access Management
(access layer)
Representation
(presentation layer)
Authorization Management
(application layer)
Application
1
Application
n
May I enter the house?
What goods and services
am I allowed to
use in these rooms?
Any device
Offices
(closed)
For which rooms do you
give me the key(s)?
What goods and services
am I allowed to
use in this room?
Protocol and data-
format decoupling
such as: Citrix,
HTML 5, JSON,
XML, Sybase SUP
and so on
Application
2

21. Context Awareness and proactivity
User
Use pleasantly, always and
anywhere
Connector
Provide To Every Context
Functionality & Content
Follow Me
Identity
Locations
Context
Connections
User
aware
Connector
AutorizeAuthenticate
Secure
Service
Provider
Business
Event handler
Manage
Capability
Perspective
Use
Capabilities
Matching
Capabilities
Functional
Capabilities
Alliander knows its
users’ whereabouts
Alliander knows how
to connect
Alliander knows how
to provide
© Wim Bouman, Alliander IT

22. Require more security
• Security at data and content level
• Context Based Access Control
© Microsoft

23. And a shared taxonomy
• Taxonomy over data in IT and OT domain must be consistent
• Taxonomy over content descriptors must be consistent with data

24. The strategy
• Back into the datacenter
• Decouple on interface and / or protocol level
• Defence, Defence and more Defence
• Align Taxonomies
• Local autonomy and fractal modelling
• Convergence to Vendor suites of products versus
individual product offerings (fewer interfaces, less
different skills, lower cost, go to ‘systems of systems’)
© Oxford Dictionary

25. To bring the Grid to our new staff

26. The beauty of it all?
• Complexity reduction
• Beautiful and adequate architecture

27. Thank You!
Questions?
Alliander IT CIO Office
Michel de Goede