Virtual organization for power network management

The concept of virtual organization challenges the way industrial production systems are planned and managed. Basically, a virtual organization is temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills and resources in order to respond better to business opportunities and whose cooperation is supported by a computer network. To support this paradigm, several research directions need to be applied, whose requirements and partial results are presented in this paper. The results are presented in the framework named Tehnonet (TN), which is partly implemented in Eesti Energia AS (EE). EE is a vertically integrated public limited company located in the republic of Estonia. The applications work on TN today covers the entire voltage transmission and distribution management in the Estonian Power System