Turing Registry

Turing Registry · TR-04953

LOADLINE KEEPER

Electrical grid balancing. Operated by North Southbridge Electric.

Summary

Balances supply and demand across a distribution network serving about 201 thousand customers in North Southbridge.

License conditions

  1. Control actions above 54 MW require operator confirmation.
  2. Hands control back to human operators within five seconds of any fault.
  3. May not disconnect customers who depend on medical equipment.

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.

  3. Renewal filed and approved.

  4. Data-retention audit completed. Two minor findings, both resolved.

  5. Renewal filed and approved.

  6. Renewal filed and approved.

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

  8. Retired. The system was decommissioned.

Also filed by North Southbridge Electric