• improved resiliency against malicious attacks through better physical security and state of the art cybersecurity to maintain data integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity, and to facilitate nonrepudiation even in the presence of adversaries in parts of the system;
• integration of renewable resources including solar and wind at levels from consumer premises to centralized plants to advance global energy sustainability;
• integration of all types of energy storage and other re-
sources such as plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) to counter the variability of renewable resources (e.g., wind, Fig. 1) and demand;
• two way communication between the consumer and utility
so that end users can actively participate and tailor their energy consumption based on individual preferences (price, environmental concerns, etc.);
• improved market efficiency via innovative bundled products of energy, ancillary services, risks, etc., made avail- able to consumers and other market participants;
• higher quality of service free of voltage sags and spikes
as well as other disturbances and interruptions to power an increasingly digital economy.