Cybersecurity for connected energy hubs.
aXite contributes to Cyber-Secure Energy Hubs, a collaborative project co-funded by the European Union and Kansen voor West. In Scheveningen, aXite is creating a digital twin of the Slim Strandnet to test cybersecurity measures separately from the operational energy system.
Cyber-Secure Energy Hubs.
Facts as registered for the project. They describe the project, not an outcome.
- Status
- Project in progress
- Project
- Cyberveilige Energiehubs / Cyber-Secure Energy Hubs
- Programme
- Kansen voor West III
- Reference
- KVW3-00535
- Registered project period
- 10 November 2025 to 31 December 2028
- This is the registered project period. It is not an operational acceptance date.
- Location
- Living Lab Scheveningen, The Hague
- aXite contribution
- Digital twinning and cybersecurity testing
Connected hubs exchange data.
Local energy hubs exchange digital information to coordinate generation, storage and consumption. The same connections that make coordination possible also carry risk: every link between systems is something that has to be secured.
Testing security measures on the operating system itself is not always an option. For that reason, aXite creates a separate copy of the Slim Strandnet, a digital twin, to investigate vulnerabilities and test measures away from the operational system.
Who is involved, and what is separate.
Roles
- Kansen voor West
- The funding programme that co-funds the project together with the European Union. It is not a customer or an operator.
- European Union
- Co-financier of the project. It does not certify the work or the installation.
- Slim Strandnet
- The energy installation in Scheveningen that the digital twin is based on.
- Scheveningen
- The project location, within the Living Lab Scheveningen in The Hague.
- Security Delta (HSD)
- The security ecosystem and project partner. Security Delta, TU Delft and Living Lab Scheveningen are among the participating organisations.
- aXite
- Contributes the digital twin of the Slim Strandnet and the cybersecurity testing around it.
Two separate scopes
Endpoint protection and the isolated test environment are separate scopes. They are described separately here and on their own pages.
Endpoint protection
AX-Box Gatekeeper and AX-Energy Protect
Protection placed at the connected energy endpoint, at the boundary of the asset.
Energy grid endpoint protectionIsolated test environment
AX-Cyberrange
A separate environment, built around a digital twin, where cybersecurity measures can be tested without touching the operational system.
AX-Cyberrange
Project sources.
Published accounts of the project. They describe the project and its partners. They are not independent performance validation.
Cyberveilige Energiehubs
Programme register · Kansen voor West III
The project entry in the Kansen voor West III project register.
Open the programme register entryLiving Lab Scheveningen tests how to keep local energy systems digitally secure
Municipal project account · Gemeente Den Haag
The municipality of The Hague describes the living lab and the project in Scheveningen.
Read the municipal project accountCyber-Secure Energy Hubs
Project programme · Security Delta (HSD)
The project programme page on the Security Delta website.
Open the project programme pageCyber-Secure Energy Hubs partners meet at Living Lab Scheveningen
Project update · Security Delta (HSD) · 24 September 2026
A project update from a meeting of the participating organisations at the living lab.
Read the project update
Related solutions, or talk to us.
For energy grid endpoints and for isolated testing. Scope is agreed per project.