Test Bed definition
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ComEd created its Test Bed and associated objectives pursuant to subsection 16-108.8 of the Public Utilities Act (“Act”).
The Test Bed is designed to help validate business models or services by permitting demonstration of specific functional aspects of the technology and/or verification that services/business models provide the intended results.
ComEd’s Smart Grid Test Bed (“Test Bed”) mission is to facilitate and provide open and unbiased live-grid opportunities for testing, demonstration, and promotion of innovative smart grid programs, technologies, business models, services, products, and other smart grid-related activities that may benefit ComEd’s customers.
The Test Bed is not intended to provide a lab where investigational ideas are tested out; those facilities exist and such tests are not appropriate for a live environment.
ComEd protects the safety and security of its distribution grid and grid operations through the Test Bed Idea (“Idea”) selection process and through management of Test Bed Demonstration (“Demonstration”) projects.ComEd’s Test Bed vision is focused on providing innovative ways to demonstrate, in an open and unbiased manner, how working technology operates in a live utility scale environment.
ComEd’s Test Bed will allow third parties to use ComEd’s system to test programs, technologies, business models, and other Smart Grid- related activities, provided those third parties qualify to use the AMI system.
The Test Bed, for example, provides third-parties vendors with access to the AMI network, provided those third-party vendors qualify to use the Test Bed.
The Test Bed is designed to let outside parties test new technologies and services that leverage the AMI network to deliver value to customers without cost to the customer for that development.
The Test Bed allows approved Submitters, subject to appropriate protections, to connect technology to the utility grid for the purpose of demonstrating that the technology functions as designed.
The Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (CAT-B) continues to provide unprecedented risk reduction at this stage in a major weapon system not seen in any legacy program.