09 February 2005 The Honorable Daniel Akaka Dear Senator Akaka: I am writing on behalf of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-United States of America (IEEE-USA) to ask your support in passing legislation needed to ensure the continued reliability of the electricity supply in the United States and throughout North America. Reliable electric power is critical to our economy, the environment, and to national security. Your action is urgently needed this year to provide a mechanism to ensure the continued reliability of our electric power system through a set of enforceable minimum reliability standards. During the last Congress, both the House and Senate passed energy bills with complementary provisions (H.R. 6) that would create an Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) for this purpose. The proposed ERO will give the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) or a successor organization the necessary authority to maintain the reliability of the complete interconnected North American electric system, based on decades of actual experience in planning and operating the interconnected grid. IEEE-USA continues to support the reliability language that passed last year and strongly urges both houses to pass an energy bill with last year's reliability provisions intact. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE created in 1973 to advance the public good and promote the careers and public policy interests of the more than 220,000 technology professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE, which is the world's largest technical professional society. We thank you for your consideration. If we can be of any assistance, please contact Bill Williams at 202 785-0017, ext 8331. Sincerely Gerard A. Alphonse GAA/ww:mcs Attachment [Similar letter sent to all Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.]
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