Risk and Security Practices: Experiences from the E-LAND Project

Abstract

The increasing availability of renewable energy sources and the high expectations from end-users regarding energy dependability has forced a re-thinking of how the full potential of energy supplies can be released. E-LAND is a European project which concept is to develop a service bus application enabling energy islands to optimize the management of energy production and consumption, which focuses on communities of end-users’ needs instead of addressing the system operators’ requirements. In this new organization of the energy market, the risk ownership on devices and energy costs are shared by the energy islands, the grid owner and the energy supplier. To support the energy islands in their new role, the E-LAND final product must not add risk in the management of energy. Thereby, a risk assessment is performed to ensure that the concept, the solution, and the application to be delivered in E-LAND are safe, secure, and reliable. This paper describes the project risk management for the E-LAND project and gives examples of future potential users, best practices on how to access, communicate and manage project risks with multi-disciplinary and international partners. As the E-LAND solution needs to collect data from the users, this article also addresses the risk regarding privacy/security, how this particular risk is understood and communicated through mitigations to ensure that the final product is in agreement with the standards.