Regional entity

The six North American regional entities in 2021. The striped area indicates the regions where the load-serving entities belong to one RE, and the transmission system operator to another.[1]

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.[2] North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) delegates to REs authority to enforce reliability standards (which NERC has throughout the contiguous United States),[3] collectively REs, together with NERC, are known as an "ERO Enterprise" (from the Electric Reliability Organization).[4]

  1. ^ NERC 2021, p. iv.
  2. ^ NERC 2013, p. 5.
  3. ^ Lawson, Ashley J. (June 10, 2019). "Maintaining Electric Reliability with Wind and Solar Sources: Background and Issues for Congress" (PDF). Congressional Research Service.
  4. ^ O’Connor, Patrick; Gest, Johnny; Dister, Carl; Browning, Tyson (2020), "A Networked Approach for Assessing Risks to the Electric Grid", DS 103: Proceedings of the 22nd International DSM Conference (DSM 2020), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 13th - 15th 2020, The Design Society, p. 125, doi:10.35199/dsm2020.13, ISBN 978-1-912254-12-5, S2CID 222521403