Affiliation:
1. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
2. IEMS Group Ltd., Kitchener, ON N2G 1H6, Canada
Abstract
Advances in energy generation and distribution technology have created the need for new power management paradigms. Transactive energy markets are integrated software and hardware systems that enable optimized energy management and direct trading between prosumers. This literature review covers unresolved security and privacy vulnerabilities in the proposed implementations of such markets. We first performed a coarse search for such implementations. We then combed the resulting literature for references to privacy concerns, security vulnerabilities, and attacks that their system was either vulnerable to or sought to address. We did so with a particular focus on threats that were not mitigated by the use of blockchain technology, a commonly employed solution. Based on evidence from 28 peer-reviewed papers, we synthesized 14 categories of concerns and their proposed solutions. We found that there are some concerns that have been widely addressed, such as protecting trading history when using a public blockchain. Conversely, there were serious threats that are not sufficiently being considered. While a lack of real-world deployment has limited information about which attacks are most likely or feasible, there are clear areas of priority that we recommend to address going forward, including market attacks, false data injection attacks, single points of failure, energy usage data leakage, and privacy.
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction