On false data injection attack against Multistep Electricity Price in electricity market in smart grid

The concept of Multistep Electricity Price (MEP) policy has been introduced by many countries to promote energy saving, load balance and fairness in electricity consumption. However, with the development of smart grid, how to determine the electricity quantity and price scaled to multiple steps has not been fully investigated. To address this issue, in this paper we study a two-dimensional MEP model to formally analyze and determine the desirable electricity quantity and price in multiple steps. In this model, the step is scaled by both electricity quantity and the time when the electricity is used. Based on the proposed MEP model, we further investigate the vulnerability of the electricity market operation and investigate false data injection attacks against electricity price and charges to consumers. Through simulation study, our data show that the proposed MEP models can achieve the fairness in electricity consumption, balance in load between peak time and non-peak time and improvement of resource utilization. Our data also indicates that false data injection attacks can only partially compromise prices in the MEP model, leading to a limited impact on users' charges.