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