Sentences with phrase «regional transmission system operators»

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In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

In the January ruling, FERC ordered PJM and the rest of the country's independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to respond to a list of 14 questions about how to define and measure grid resilience, with the goal of determining what, if any, additional steps might be needed outside of existing market rules to prevent or recover from disasters.

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has reported that energy storage can offer up to 13 different services to stakeholders, including customers, utilities, independent system operators and regional transmission organizations.

Or there could be two regional transmission operators: a CAISO - oriented system including much of the Pacific Northwest, and a Mountain West system encompassing much of the Rocky Mountain West.

Grid operators — known as independent system operators (ISOs) or regional transmission organizations — hold auctions to procure future energy resources at the wholesale level.

FERC instead directed the regional transmission organisations and independent system operators - the bodies that operate the USA's power grid - to assess the resilience of the electricity grid and to recommend additional actions to mitigate any identified issues.

We also handle complicated business, regulatory, and operational issues inherent in sales, spin - offs, and transfers of control to regional transmission operators of existing transmission facilities and systems.