Reliability Councils

Reliability Councils
  Regional reliability councils were organized after the 1965 northeast blackout to coordinate reliability practices and avoid or minimize future outages. They are voluntary organizations of transmission-owning utilities and in some cases power cooperatives, power marketers, and non-utility generators. Membership rules vary from region to region. They are coordinated through the North American Electric Reliability Council.

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