Information systems supporting electric energy deregulation North America

Author

González-Pérez, Carlos

Author_Institution

Open Access Technol. Int. Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

25-25 July 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. With the consolidation of the deregulation of the wholesale electric power industry in the United States, several computer systems have been developed to support it. This presentation provides an overview of the major systems in place to support the deregulation of the wholesale electric energy industry in the US and Canada. Emphasis is placed on how the data and information flows among these different systems, as well as on the technology and network security measures to provide a reliable and secure data communication transfer.

Keywords

business data processing; electricity supply industry deregulation; power engineering computing; Canada; Information flows; USA; computer systems; congestion management; data flows; information sharing; information systems support; open market business practices; security measures; transmission system reliability; wholesale electric power industry deregulation; Computer industry; Consumer electronics; Frame relay; Information systems; Internet; Management information systems; North America; Power system management; Reliability; Tagging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2002 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7518-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESS.2002.1043478

Filename

1043478