A regional entity (RE) in the North American power transmission grid is a regional organization representing all segments of the electric industry : electric utilities (investor-owned, cooperatives, state, regional, and municipal), federal agencies , independent power producers , power market operators, and end-users of the energy. North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) delegates to REs authority to enforce reliability standards (which NERC has throughout the contiguous United States ), collectively REs, together with NERC, are known as an "ERO Enterprise" (from the Electric Reliability Organization ).
7-599: The Texas Reliability Entity ( Texas RE ) is one of the six Regional Entities under North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) authority. Each Regional Entity is tasked with compliance, monitoring, and enforcement on the behalf of NERC to ensure bulk power system reliability. Texas RE was formed on January 1, 2010 to succeed Texas Regional Entity as the Regional Entity for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). ERCOT
14-794: Is located in Texas , covering 75% of the state's land area and 90% of its electric load, making it the only Regional Entity that serves both a single interconnection (the Texas Interconnection ) and a single state. Users, owners, and operators within ERCOT are eligible for membership in Texas RE at no cost. Members are categorized in one of seven membership Sectors: Cooperative Utility, Generation, Load-Serving, Marketing, Municipal Utility, System Coordination and Planning, and Transmission and Distribution. As of May 2019, Fred N. Day, IV serves as
21-500: The MRC. The MRC directly advises the board with respect to Texas RE's annual budgets, business plans, and funding mechanisms. It also advises the board on the reliability of the bulk power system, the development of Regional Reliability Standards and Regional Variances, and other concerns related to Texas RE's purpose and operations. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has authorized Texas RE to serve as its Reliability Monitor for
28-455: The US, with REs playing the role of regional (state-like) components. As of 2021, there were six regional entities: The original list included eight entities, two REs were later dissolved: The reliability standard development process had Regional Entities developing regional standards, to be approved by NERC and FERC. By the 2010, the process was slow: just nine standards were developed, all by
35-463: The WECC. An RE approves the transmission plans and chooses the projects for regional (as opposed to per-local-pricing-zone) cost allocation. One of the important roles of an RE is suggesting to NERC (and FERC ) to include the facilities into - or exclude from - the list of "elements" that constitute the bulk-power system (BPS, also known as a "bulk electric system", BES), subject to the oversight of
42-427: The chair of the Texas RE board of directors. W. Lane Lanford serves as the president and chief executive officer. In addition to having a board of directors as well as officers, Texas RE has a Member Representatives Committee (MRC) consisting of 11 representatives. The MRC is composed of two representatives from each Sector, with the exception of Sectors with only one corporate member, which only have one representative on
49-600: The state of Texas and for ERCOT. Regional entity The regional entities, at the bottom of the structure for the development and enforcement of the reliability standards for the US electric grid, were established by the Section 215 of the Federal Power Act as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 . The statute tried to mimic the balance of power between the federal and state authorities in
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