Modeling the grid as a customer-driven system: emerging challenges and opportunities for self-healing infrastructures

Summary form only given, as follows. The Consortium for the Intelligent Management of the Electric Power Grid (CIMEG) is developing a new theoretical approach to modeling the deregulated power grid as a customer-driven system. The approach is demonstrated through TELOS, an agent-based anticipatory system that is under development in the service areas of ComEd and TVA. When the grid is viewed through the temporal behavior of customers several possibilities for defensive and ameliorative strategies become easy to implement in an efficient and reliable manner. Yet, new modeling, identification and prediction challenges emerge. The authors present new contributions and give a status report on the CIMEG´s accomplishments and work in progress