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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of natural gas, oil, and electricity. FERC also regulates natural gas and hydropower projects. |
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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a self-regulatory organization with eight regional reliability councils from all segments of the electric industry including investor-owned utilities; federal power agencies; rural electric cooperatives; state, municipal and provincial utilities; independent power producers; power marketers; and end-use customers. NERC's mission is to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America is reliable, adequate and secure. |
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ReliabilityFirst (RFC), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, is a not-for-profit company whose mission is to preserve and enhance electric service reliability and security for the interconnected electric systems within its territory. ReliabilityFirst's primary responsibilities include developing and monitoring compliance to reliability standards for all owners, operators and users of the bulk electric system within the region. |
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The Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, is a voluntary association committed to safeguarding reliability of the bulk electric power system in the north central region of North America. The essential purposes of the MRO are: (1) the development and implementation of regional and NERC reliability standards, and (2) determining compliance with those standards, including enforcement mechanisms. The MRO also provides other services consistent with its reliability charter. |
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The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. |
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The mission of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, is to direct and ensure reliable and cost-effective operation of the electric grid and to enable fair and efficient market-driven solutions to meet customers' electric service needs. ERCOT helps participants first enter the Texas electricity market smoothly with training and education, and later ERCOT assists with qualifications, certifications and registrations. |
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The Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, ensures and enhances the reliability and adequacy of bulk electricity supply in Florida, now and into the future. Its members include investor-owned utilities, cooperative utilities, municipal utilities, federal power agency, power marketers, and independent power producers. |
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| www.modernizethegrid.com | A special Web site established by ITC Holdings that looks at the numerous challenges to modernizing America’s high-voltage electric transmission system. Includes background information on various aspects of the transmission modernization challenge, along with links to recent media coverage and other resources. |
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The Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. (NPCC Inc.), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, promotes the reliable and efficient operation of the international, interconnected bulk power systems in Northeastern North America through the establishment of regionally-specific criteria, coordination of system planning, design and operations, assessment of reliability and monitoring and enforcement of compliance with such criteria, and other applicable criteria. In the development of reliability criteria, NPCC Inc., to the extent possible, facilitates attainment of fair, effective and efficient competitive electric markets. |
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| www.pserc.org | Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) draws on university capabilities to address emerging needs as the electric power industry evolves from a vertically integrated utility model to one where multiple players provide unbundled services using market-oriented decision-making. The industry’s latest challenges call for new strategies, technologies, analytical capabilities and tools, and operating practices, along with sound public policy guidance. |
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The SERC Reliability Corporation (SERC), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, is responsible for promoting, coordinating, and ensuring the reliability and adequacy of the bulk power supply systems in the area served by the member systems. SERC promotes the development of reliability and adequacy arrangements among the systems; participates in the establishment of reliability standards; administers a regional compliance and enforcement program to achieve the reliability benefits of coordinated planning and operations; and provides a mechanism to resolve disputes on reliability issues. |
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The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, helps its members work together to keep the lights on… today and in the future. It serves more than 4.5 million customers covering a geographic area of 255,000 square miles across eight states, containing a population of over 18 million people. SPP's membership consists of investor-owned utilities, municipal systems, generation and transmission cooperatives, state authorities, independent power producers, power marketers, and an independent transmission coordinator. |
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The Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC), one of NERC's eight Regional Reliability Councils, is responsible for coordinating and promoting electric system reliability. In addition to promoting a reliable electric power system in the Western Interconnection, WECC will support efficient competitive power markets, assure open and non-discriminatory transmission access among members, provide a forum for resolving transmission access disputes, and provide an environment for coordinating the operating and planning activities of its members as set forth in the WECC bylaws. |
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The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. is the nation's first Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and is responsible for monitoring the electric transmission system that delivers power from generating plants to wholesale power transmitters. The Midwest ISO's role is to ensure equal access to the transmission system and to maintain or improve electric system reliability in the Midwest. |
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PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia |
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The Western Governors' Association is an independent, nonprofit organization representing the governors of 19 states and three U.S.-Flag islands in the Pacific. Through their Association, the Western governors identify and address key policy and governance issues in natural resources, the environment, human services, economic development, international relations and public management |
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The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, NARUC, is a non-profit organization whose members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. NARUC's member agencies regulate telecommunications, energy, and water utilities. NARUC represents the interests of State public utility commissions before the three branches of the Federal government. |
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Transmission Access Policy Study Group is an informal association of transmission-dependent electric utilities located in more than 33 states. |
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ISO-NE manages regional electricity demand and ensures stable electric supply in New England. |
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