Turing Registry

Turing Registry · TR-10758

VECTOR BALANCE

Electrical grid balancing. Operated by Pinewood Energy.

Summary

Balances supply and demand across a distribution network serving about 380 thousand customers in East Ironworth.

License conditions

  1. Hands control back to human operators within five seconds of any fault.
  2. 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. Sensor outage of 16 hours. The plant ran under manual control throughout.

Also filed by Pinewood Energy