The smart electricity grids have been evolving to a more complex cyber-physical ecosystem of infrastructures with integrated communication networks, new carbon-free sources of power generation, advanced monitoring and control systems, and a myriad of emerging modern physical hardware technologies. With the unprecedented complexity and heterogeneity in dynamic smart grid networks comes additional vulnerability to emerging threats such as cyber attacks. Rapid development and deployment of advanced network monitoring and communication systems on one hand, and the growing interdependence of the electric power grids to a multitude of lifeline critical infrastructures on the other, calls for holistic defense strategies to safeguard the power grids against cyber adversaries. In order to improve the resilience of the power grid against adversarial attacks and cyber intrusions, advancements should be sought on detection techniques, protection plans, and mitigation practices in all electricity generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. This survey discusses such major directions and recent advancements from a lens of different detection techniques, equipment protection plans, and mitigation strategies to enhance the energy delivery infrastructure resilience and operational endurance against cyber attacks. This undertaking is essential since even modest improvements in resilience of the power grid against cyber threats could lead to sizeable monetary savings and an enriched overall social welfare. INDEX TERMS Cyber physical systems (CPS), cyber attack, intrusion detection system (IDS), false data injection attack (FDIA), energy management system (EMS), power grid resilience.

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Modern power delivery systems are rapidly evolving with high proliferation of power-electronic (PE)interfaced distributed energy resources (DERs). Compared to the conventional sources of generation, the PE-interfaced DERs, e.g., solar and wind resources, are attributed substantially different characteristics such as lower overload capability and limited frequency response patterns. This paper focuses on effective management and control mechanisms for PE-interfaced DERs in power distribution systems with high penetration of renewables, particularly under fault, voltage-sag, load variations, and other prevailing conditions in the grid. Aiming at the solutions to enhance the system performance resilience, we introduce an advanced model predictive control (MPC) based scheme to control the DER units, minimize the impact of transients and disruptions, speed up the response and recovery of particular metrics and parameters, and maintain an acceptable operation condition. The performance of the suggested control scheme is tested on a modified IEEE 34-bus test feeder, where the proposed solution demonstrates its effectiveness to minimize the system transient during faults, with an enhanced grid-edge and system-wide resilience characteristics in voltage profiles.

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