Victoria O’Brien presented two invited guest lectures entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for universities in the Northeast United States. The first lecture took place on November 13, 2024, at the City College of New York (CCNY) during a graduate-level Renewable Energy course. This lecture discussed a novel approach for detecting cyberattacks in battery sensors using a combination of battery modeling, state estimation, and statistics. During her visit, Victoria also had the opportunity to network with graduate students, discuss potential collaborations with CCNY professors, and tour the college’s facilities and labs.
The second lecture was held on November 14, 2024, at Columbia University, presented to a graduate-level Energy Storage for the Electric Grid course. This session provided a more in-depth exploration of general cybersecurity topics as well as cybersecurity specifically applied to battery energy storage systems. Key topics included a crash course on cybersecurity, cybersecurity threats in the energy and storage sectors, approaches for detecting cyberattacks in battery sensors, and the future of cybersecurity for energy storage systems.
These lectures at Columbia University and CCNY were excellent opportunities to highlight the cutting-edge cybersecurity work that Sandia National Laboratories is applying to grid-scale battery systems. They also played a critical role in fostering collaborations with students and faculty at both institutions.
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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity (OE), Energy Storage Division.
Sandia National Laboratories is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525.