• 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.