Security policy for low-voltage smart grids

Smart Grid is both a concept and a way to mitigate infrastructural deficiencies and counteract the effects of the growing demand for electrical energy. One of the ways ensuring an increase in power grid’s management efficiency is utilization of the latest communication solutions by use of IT technologies. Such solutions ensure reduced energy consumption and evened 24-hour loads, decreased losses and – thanks to automated energy balancing – increased transfer security. Such solutions will directly translate into increased efficiency of the entire power grid. The present article contains an introduction to smart power grids, perspectives for their development in Poland, as well as an extended discussion of related issues concerning security on the organizational level.