Fast control of power grids using streaming protocol

A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:

• generating a complete message that includes one or more measurements for one or more electrical resources of an electrical power grid and that includes a synchronized timestamp for the measurements;
• causing the complete message to be transmitted, via a public communication network and according to a streaming protocol, as one or more outbound streaming data packets that correspond to the complete message and that each include the synchronized timestamp;
• receiving an assembled inbound complete message that includes the synchronized timestamp and one or more control parameters,
• wherein the assembled inbound complete message is assembled, according to the streaming data protocol, from inbound streaming data packets that are transmitted via the public communication network responsive to a parent controller determining the one or more control parameters based on an assembly of the outbound streaming data packets, and
• wherein the assembled inbound complete message includes the synchronized timestamp in response to the outbound streaming data packets, based on which the one or more control parameters are determined, each also including the synchronized timestamp;
• generating, based on the control parameters and the synchronized timestamp of the assembled inbound complete message, one or more control actions to achieve the control parameters, the one or more control actions including a control action for an automatically controllable resource of the one or more electrical resources;
• and
• sending the control action to the automatically controllable resource.

A system, comprising:

• memory storing instructions;
• one or more processors operable to execute the instructions to:
• receive, through a public communication network, inbound streaming data packets transmitted over the public communication network according to a streaming data protocol,
• wherein the inbound streaming data packets include a set of inbound data packets that correspond to, and were transmitted through the public communication network responsive to, a complete inbound message from a resource of an electrical power grid;
• assemble, according to the streaming data protocol, the inbound streaming data packets into one or more inbound complete messages, wherein in assembling the streaming data packets into one or more inbound complete messages one or more of the processors are to:
• assemble the set of inbound data packets into the inbound complete message;
• communicate the one or more inbound complete messages to a controller;
• receive, from the controller, power setpoint data that is generated by the controller based at least in part on the one or more complete messages;
• generate, according to the streaming protocol, one or more outbound streaming data packets that correspond to the power setpoint data;
• and
• transmit the one or more outbound streaming data packets through the public communication network, wherein transmitting the one or more outbound streaming data packets through the public communication network causes adjustment of the electrical resource and/or causes adjustment of one or more additional electrical resources of the electrical power grid.