Objective:

• Help remove the lack of situation awareness in the electric power grid, which has been a major contributor to most or all recent major blackouts

Technologies:

• Flexible, robust, and secure middleware to deliver operational data (augment & replace SCADA).

• Efficient support for multicast (1:many), phasor measurement units, different network underlying technologies, rate filtering

• Support for changing routing tables quickly and data load shedding in a contingency.

Uniqueness:

• A new and novel kind of publish-subscribe middleware that has a highly manageable infrastructure data delivery plane with a hierarchical management for policy control

• Designed specifically for the power grid’s requirements, in PNNL & INL starting July 07

PIs: Dave Bakken, Carl Hauser (CS); Anjan Bose (EE)

• PNNL POCs Jeff Dagle (power), Ross Guttromson (EIOC), Dr. Deb Frincke (security)

Sponsors: DoE, NIST, DHS, Avista, NSF