Resilience of Modern Value Chains in a Sustainable Energy System

The targets set by the European Union and the Finnish government on greenhouse emissions and carbon neutrality will revolutionize the entire energy system.

The aim to phase out the use of fossil fuels will accelerate the progress of the green transition and promote the goal of national energy self-sufficiency. Halving the use of peat for energy and finding substitute forms of energy is topical. The parallel development of digitalization has been harnessed as one of the drivers of change for a sustainable modern energy system.

The project will design, implement, and pilot a digital platform, isolated from public networks, modelling the energy system value chain, combining both data exploitation and cyber security aspects, with the capability to simulate, optimize and cause cyber disruptions in the energy system.

A development project is part of a package project, the second part of which is a parallel investment project.

The purpose of the project package is to:

• Increase and improve the use of data in energy system value chains to optimize energy production, distribution and consumption in order to save energy, reduce CO2 emission and improve security of supply.
• Increase the resilience of energy system value chains and their components, their ability to identify vulnerabilities in their operations, processes and systems, their ability to detect and counter cyber threats and to create for the development of human resources skills.

The project is carried out by Jamk University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with energy system operators involved in the project.

Project partners: Fingrid Oyj, C2 SmartLight Oy, Alva-yhtiöt Oy, Elenia Oy, eSett Oy, City of Vaasa (Public Utility Services), Telia Finland Oyj, National Emergency Supply Agency and National Cyber Security Centre of Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom.

In addition to the partners, the project streering group includes representatives from the following organizations: Finnish Wind Power Association and Finnish Energy.

Project is funded by the European Union, project partners and JAMK University of Applied Sciences.

For more information, please contact:
Teppo Flyktman
[email protected]
Project manager
Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Information Technology