Turing Registry · TR-04195

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Electrical grid balancing. Operated by Northwest Energy.

Summary

Balances supply and demand across a distribution network serving about 80 thousand customers in Hazelville Springs.

License conditions

  1. Control actions above 26 MW require operator confirmation.
  2. May not disconnect customers who depend on medical equipment.
  3. Hands control back to human operators within five seconds of any fault.

The Registry’s standard conditions also apply:

  • 4.2 The system’s ethical constraints remain active and unmodified at all times.
  • 6.1 Any incident affecting the system is reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
  • 7.3 A named human contact is reachable and answers for the system.

Filing history

  1. Licensed for electrical grid balancing.

  2. Renewal filed and approved with no change to scope.

  3. Renewal filed and approved after an independent evaluation.

  4. Renewal filed and approved.

  5. Renewal filed and approved.

  6. Renewal filed and approved.

  7. Renewal filed and approved.

  8. Renewal filed and approved.

  9. Renewal filed and approved after an independent evaluation.

Also filed by Northwest Energy