Computer Science

CLC number: TP391

Energy Internet and Its Trusted Protection Architecture

¹ China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China
² School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China

^† To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: 2016102110052@whu.edu.cn

Received: 23 December 2021

Abstract

Through the combination of new energy and Internet technology, the Energy Internet deeply integrates various complex network systems such as power, transportation and natural gas, aiming to change the energy utilization model and promote the sustainable development of economy and society. The Energy Internet takes the power grid as the "Backbone Network" , integrating the autonomous units of distributed energy, and integrating information and energy through the open-peer information and energy integration architecture. Information interaction scenarios of the Energy Internet information interaction scenarios include "human-object" , "human-human" and "object-object" . In this new interconnection mechanism environment, the lack of any security defenses may leave the Energy Internet exposed to the risk of information leakage, theft and loss, resulting in immeasurable losses. From "human-object" , "object-object" and "human-human" interaction scenarios, the paper puts forward fine-grained access control mechanism, trusted computing environment building in IoT devices and trusted communication channel construction, and designs a trusted protection architecture for the Energy Internet to ensure the data security throughout its life cycle. We verify that the proposed architecture can provide trusted environment for the Energy Internet.