1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a federation device, grid control-based signals over a computer network that have been redirected to the federation device instead of one or more grid-related devices that control the flow of alternating current (AC) electrical power in a utility grid; applying, by the federation device, one or more utility grid control policies to the one or more grid control-based signals; federating, by the federation device, conflicting grid control-based signals in the received grid control-based signals into one or more federated control-based signals by selecting a particular one of the conflicting grid control-based signals as the federated control-based signal based on the applied one or more utility grid control policies; and propagating, by the federation device, the one or more federated control-based signals to the one or more grid-related devices.