Turing Registry

Turing Registry · TR-06544

BALANCEGUARD

Electrical grid balancing. Operated by Upper Valley Power Cooperative.

Summary

Balances supply and demand across a distribution network serving about 895 thousand customers in Barbrook Bay.

License conditions

  1. May not disconnect customers who depend on medical equipment.
  2. 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.

  3. Renewal filed and approved.

  4. Renewal filed and approved.

  5. Renewal filed and approved.

  6. Review opened after an unplanned outage affecting 33 thousand customers.

Also filed by Upper Valley Power Cooperative