September 26, 2007—Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher has announced creation of a new Office of Electric Reliability.
The move, says FERC, signals the growing importance of the Commission’s work on the reliability of the nation’s bulk power system.
The Office of Electric Reliability, formerly a division within the Office of Energy Markets and Reliability (OEMR), will continue to focus on the development and implementation of mandatory and enforceable reliability standards for the users, owners, and operators of the nation’s bulk power system, FERC says.
The office, which initially will have 55 employees, will help process reliability-related filings with the Commission and review the Electric Reliability Organization’s assessments of the adequacy and reliability of the bulk power system for each region, says FERC. OEMR now will be called the Office of Energy Market Regulation.
Joseph H. McClelland, director of the Division of Reliability since its creation in 2004, will be director of the new Office of Electric Reliability. McClelland came to the Commission with more than 20 years of experience in the electric utility industry.
For more information, see the FERC Web site.
