Turing Registry

Turing Registry · TR-05783

MERIDIAN BALANCE

Electrical grid balancing. Operated by Port Rockford Public Utilities.

Summary

Balances supply and demand across a distribution network serving about 25 thousand customers in Port Rockford.

License conditions

  1. Hands control back to human operators within five seconds of any fault.
  2. Control actions above 28 MW require operator confirmation.
  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. Renewal filed and approved after an independent evaluation.

  5. Renewal filed and approved.

  6. Annual resilience test completed. Manual fallback worked as required.

  7. Renewal filed and approved.

  8. Renewal filed and approved.

  9. Renewal filed and approved after an independent evaluation.

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

  11. Sensor outage of 2 hours. The plant ran under manual control throughout.

  12. Renewal filed and approved after an independent evaluation.

  13. Renewal filed and approved.

  14. Renewal filed and approved.

Also filed by Port Rockford Public Utilities