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 IEEE-USA supports passage of
federal legislation empowering the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to
create a self-regulating reliability organization, the Electric
Reliability Organization (ERO) with authority to set and enforce mandatory
standards for reliability of the North American electric system.
At present, the North American
Electric Reliability Council (NERC) develops standards, guidelines, and
criteria for assuring transmission system security and reliability.
Electric company compliance with NERC standards, is voluntary and is not
subject to government oversight.
IEEE-USA also supports federal
R&D investments in electric transmission and distribution related to
improving the capacity and reliability of the electric grid.
IEEE-USA Position
Statements
IEEE-USA Press Releases
IEEE-USA Testimonies and Communications
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Coalition letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee expressing
concerns regarding limitations on
reliability
funding in draft energy bill. 25 Feb. 2005)
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T&D Coalition Letter to Congress and
Administration urging restoration of funding for transmission
research (18 Feb. 2004)
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Responses to Questions Posed by the House
Energy & Commerce Committee on Causes of the Northeast
Blackout of August 2003.
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Coalition (NERC)
Letter to House & Senate Energy Chairs on Electric
Reliability Legislation (27 Aug. 2003)
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Coalition (NERC)
Letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee supporting
the electricity reliability title
of the Senate energy bill (S. 14). (25 July 2003)
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Coalition (NERC)
letter to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
expressing support for electricity
reliability provisions contained in the Chairman's Mark (April 24)
of the Senate's comprehensive energy legislation. (29 April 2003)
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Letter to the
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources endorsing provisions
(Title XI, Subtitle A) creating a self-governing
electricity reliability organization contained in the Chairman's
Mark (April 24) of the Senate Energy Bill. (28 April 2003)
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Letter to
House/Senate Energy Conferees requesting support for inclusion of the
Senate electric power
reliability title (Title II, Sec. 206) in final energy legislation.
(10 Oct. 2002)
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Letter to House and
Senate Energy conferees urging inclusion of electric
power reliability provisions (Senate Title II, Sec. 206) in the
compromise language of the Energy Policy Act of 2002 (H.R. 4) (15 July
2002)
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Coalition (NERC)
Letter to Sen. Bingaman and Rep. Tauzin expressing support for the electric
power reliability provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2002 (H.R.
4)(23 May 2002)
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Letters to Sens.
Bingaman, Domenici, Murkowski and Reid urging continued support for the electric
power reliability amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2002 (H.R.
4) (22 May 2002)
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Letter
to the Senate leadership and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee supporting the Thomas
energy reliability amendment to the Senate energy bill (S.517). (14
March 2002)
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Summary
Report of the IEEE-USA Workshop on the Role
of the Government in Restructuring the Electric Power Industry: A
Technology Policy Perspective (June 1997)
Legislative Outlook
Forthcoming.
How You Can Help
Contact your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and
urge them to pass the Energy Policy Act (H.R. 6) with strong provisions to
ensure the future reliability of the North American electric power
system. Use the recent Northeast Blackout as an example of why it is
critical that Congress act on electric reliability now.
You can use IEEE-USA's
Legislative
Action Center to send messages, or join the CARE
Team to help us on this and other issues by volunteering as a
grassroots advocate.
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Key
Legislation
Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6)
Related
News
“Competitive
Power Markets Produce $15 Billion in Savings” EPSA follow-up on
their news briefing on the monetary benefits of competitive
electricity (12 July 2005)
DOE announces new Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability (9 June 2005)
Barton Applauds Senate Committee Approval of Bipartisan Energy Bill
(26 May 2005)
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approves bipartisan
energy bill by 21 to 1 vote. (26 May 2005)
Electricity Reliability
Updates
Challenges to Enhancing Electric Reliability
Through Advanced Nuclear Power (12 July 2005)
Ensuring the Reliability of the
Nation's Electricity System (8 June 2005)
Congressional
Hearings
Ensuring the Reliability of the Nation's Electricity System,
Hearing of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy &
Resources (8 June 2005)
Blackout
2003: How Did It Happen and Why?, Hearing of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee (3-4 Sept. 2003)
Hearing of the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Electricity
(27 March 2003)
Hearing of the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the Financial
Condition of the Electricity Market (4 March 2003)
Hearing of the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Standard
Electricity Market Design (17 Sept. 2002)
Documents
Related to Electricity
published by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Resource
Links IEEE-USA
Energy Policy Committee
Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee
House Energy and Commerce
Committee IEEE
Power Engineering Society North
American Electric Reliability Council Edison
Electric Institute Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission U.S.
Department of Energy
Blackout
of August 2003
NOAA
Images of NE Blackout
Final Report of the
U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (April 2004)
U.S.-Canada
Power System Outage Task Force - Interim
Report (Nov. 2003)
Blackout
2003: How Did It Happen and Why?, Hearing of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee (3 Sept. 2003)
North American
Electric Reliability Council's Blackout
Investigation (NERC)
Edison Electric
Institute on Power
Outages
IEEE Media
Alert on Blackout 2003
Special
Report: Background to the Blackout, IEEE Spectrum
(Aug. 2003)
Power
System Basics, IEEE Power & Energy magazine (Jan-Feb.
2003)
Explaining
Power System Operation to Non-Engineers, IEEE Power
Engineering Review (April 2002)
Power
Sector Reform: Blackouts Before Policy, IEEE Spectrum
(May 2002)
Visualizing
the Electric Grid, IEEE Spectrum (Feb. 2001)
Restructuring
the Thin-Stretched Grid, IEEE Spectrum (June 2000)
Towards
Self-Healing Energy Infrastructure Systems, Massoud Amin, IEEE
Computer Applications in Power (January 2001).
Control
of Power Systems (IEEE Control Systems Society)
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