Development of the Intercontrol Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) [power system control]

After a three-year research and development project that included a collaborative effort by EPRI and 20 electric utilities and vendors in the USA, two electric utilities conducted full-scale demonstrations of a proposed international standard, UCA compliant protocol for communicating between power system control centers. The recently developed Intercontrol Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) was implemented and tested at Western Area Power Administration's (WAPA) Loveland area office and at Ohio Edison (OE) company. A third node at the vendor, Harris Controls, allowed demonstration of routing and networking capabilities.