This project is a collaboration between MIT and Lehigh University to include fundamental risk tools from economics to balance uncertain supply and demand in the electricity sector and improve adoption of renewable energy sources.

The main objective of this project is to formalize ground-breaking general principles in support of investment planning and operating protocols for the changing electric energy systems. This is crucial for assessing effects of candidate hardware and software technologies and for creating an environment in which flexible technologies are utilized by complementing each others' performance and by jointly meeting societal needs.

This project will develop and demonstrate an active defense mechanism of cyber-resilient PV distribution system operation using a dynamic watermarking technique to monitor cybersecurity. The technique involves injecting a probe signal onto the grid to authenticate grid actions.