Electric regions—electric region groupings for reliability measurements under the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 10

(a) The following is a list of electric regions for use with regard to the Act. The regions are identified by FERC Power Supply Areas (PSA's) as authorized by section 202(a) of the Federal Power Act except where noted. They will be reviewed annually by ERA. (1) Existing centrally dispatched pools and hourly power brokers; (2) Systems with joint planning and construction agreements; (3) Systems with coordination agreements in the areas of: (i) Generation reserve and system reliability criteria; (ii) Capacity and energy exchange policies; (iii) Maintenance scheduling; and (iv) Emergency procedures for dealing with capacity or fuel shortages; or (4) Systems within the same National Electric Reliability Council (NERC) region with historical coordination policies. (b) The PSA's referred to in the definition of electric regions in paragraph (a) of this section were first defined by the Federal Power Commission in 1936. The most recent reference to them is given in the

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 10:§ 500.3