Abstract

With the structural change in the electrical energysupply, supply-related processes and procedures areincreasingly being modified. Due to the gradualdecentralization of electrical energy generation and the networkexpansion required for this, new requirements are being placedon the electrotechnical processes and the information andcommunication technology processes. A currently promisingconcept for solving these challenges in favor of transmissionoperators and distribution system operators is the integration ofa so-called virtual power plant. Virtual power plants act as anintegral part of the future electrical supply system between thecritical infrastructure and the distribution network operatorsas well as transmission system operators in the field of remotemonitoring and remote control of decentralized energygeneration systems. With the classification of a virtual powerplant as a critical infrastructure, the importance of theseentities as an active member of the German electrical energysystem in the interest of compliance with electrical andinformation technology security is explicitly emphasized. As acritical infrastructure, virtual power plants are committed toachieving a minimum level of information security. Chapter6.1.3 of DIN EN ISO/IEC TR 27019:2020 recommends thatvirtual power plants maintain contacts with certain ComputerEmergency Response Team organizations. However, it turnsout that there is currently no organizational model for acomputer emergency response team that focuses on virtualpower plants in targeting its target group. Thus, the main goalof the present elaboration is the completion of a scientificallybased approach, which deals with the efficiency of a possiblesolution to the problem of designing integrative securityprocesses for the provision of Computer Emergency ResponseTeam services, which is growing out of practical relevance to besolved in virtual power plants. The assumption here is thatthere is a need for research at this point about the challenges ofthe energy transition that have not yet been clearly presented.