Modeling Load Redistribution Attacks in Integrated Electricity-Gas Systems

Abstract: We investigate load redistribution (LR) attacks on integrated electricity-gas systems (IEGSs) and proposes a bilevel mixed-integer model to identify the most severe LR attack from an economic perspective. Under a mild assumption, we prove that the proposed model does not exclude any possible upper-level attack. A modified reformulation and decomposition (R&D) algorithm is developed to solve this model in a master-subproblem framework. Particularly, we design a subproblem to address infeasibility issues in the master problem. Accordingly, two types of cuts are added to the master problem for ensuring algorithm feasibility and solution optimality.