Presentation in PriTEM workshop, March 22-23, 2023, by Shiliang Zhang from IFI, UiO
Abstract: Privacy is a determinant in smart grid and smart meter roll-out. Well-preserved privacy promotes consumer confidence and underpins a level-playing field for energy market participants. This presentation considers legislative privacy that provides the most concrete basis for the privacy protection of smart meter data. We review how EU legislative privacy has evolved over the past years and characterize the legislative process into stages. For each stage, we analyze the relevant regulatory documents, the raised legal privacy concepts, measures, and rules. This analysis aims to provide insights and reflections on privacy protection for smart meter data from a regulation's perspective, and to articulate the learned lessons that might be transposed to the future energy market, e.g., peer-to-peer energy trading and beyond.
Bio of Shiliang Zhang: Shiliang received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University and worked as a postdoc researcher in Chalmers University of Technology, in the field of privacy-preserving approaches in vehicle networks. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Informatics, UiO, with his main research interests in privacy preservation, machine learning, and their applications in transactive energy management systems.