SESAME - Securing the European Electricity Supply Against Malicious and accidental Threats

Project Description

Project Description
The project objective is:

1. To develop risk assessment tools for identifying weaknesses in power distribution grids and power production plants.
2. To develop tools for protecting these critical infrastructures from cascade effects and from deliberate acts of terrorism and sabotage.
3. To perform a contingency analysis of the distribution grids and to plan the automatic smart restoration and reconfiguration in the event of a failure in parts of the grid.

The project is divided into the following activities or Work Packages (WP):

• WP1: Vulnerability Identification & Management.
• WP 2: Impact Assessment.
• WP 3: Technology Transfer & Policy Support.
• WP 4: System Specification of Decision Support System.
• WP 5: Assembling of DSS – Software Development.
• WP 6: Trial Application 1 – Authority Perspective.
• WP 7: Trial Application 2 – TSO Perspective.
• WP 8: Project Management.
• WP 9: Dissemination.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

Indra is the project´s technological partner and is responsible for the following activities:

• WP4 - System Specification of Decision Support System. Indra participates in the design of this Decision Support System.
• WP5-Assembling of DSS – Software Development. Indra leads this activity in which the system that houses the models and algorithms developed in previous activities is built.
• WP9-Dissemination. Indra participates in this activity of disseminating the project results.

Universities and Technological Centres

Technologies used

In order to build the Decision Support System, we will base ourselves on a project that is already operational at some of our customers and which must be developed to cover the project needs. Initially, the .NET architecture will be used.

More information

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no FP7-216696