FERC Filings

FILING OF THE ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION ON THE FORMATION OF A STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION FOR THE WHOLESALE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY

INTRODUCTION

Electricity Market Design and Structure

Docket No. RM01-12-000

This filing responds to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (Commission or FERC) December 19, 2001, Order requesting that the “various participants in the wholesale electric industry agree on a single standards organization to develop wholesale electric standards.” Despite the best efforts of all involved in the Edison Electric Institute (EEI)-sponsored joint industry collaborative meetings, it has become clear that a single industry consensus for combining--through coordination and otherwise--all commercial and reliability standards hoped for by the participants and anticipated in FERC’s December 19th Order is not possible at this time. The need to create a single coordinated process that recognizes and accommodates the unavoidable linkage that exists between reliability requirements and business practices is the largest factor that separates the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) filing from others the Commission may receive.

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