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Title: Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services

Abstract

The US electricity industry, dominated by vertically integrated, retail-monopoly, regulated utilities, is undergoing enormous changes. The industry, within the next few years, will evolve into a deintegrated, competitive-market dominated, less regulated industry. Part of this process involves unbundling electric generation from transmission, which raises the issue of ancillary services. Since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published its March 1995 proposed rule on open-access transmission, ancillary services have been an important topic. Ancillary services are those functions performed by the equipment and people that generate, control, transmit, and distribute electricity to support the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery. These services cost US electricity consumers about $12 billion a year. This article examines the functions performed by the equipment and people that generate, control, transmit, and distribute electricity to support the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery.

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
264198
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
IEEE Power Engineering Review
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GOODS AND SERVICES; INTERCONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RELIABILITY

Citation Formats

Kirby, B, and Hirst, E. Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.1109/MPER.1996.506375.
Kirby, B, & Hirst, E. Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPER.1996.506375
Kirby, B, and Hirst, E. 1996. "Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPER.1996.506375.
@article{osti_264198,
title = {Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services},
author = {Kirby, B and Hirst, E},
abstractNote = {The US electricity industry, dominated by vertically integrated, retail-monopoly, regulated utilities, is undergoing enormous changes. The industry, within the next few years, will evolve into a deintegrated, competitive-market dominated, less regulated industry. Part of this process involves unbundling electric generation from transmission, which raises the issue of ancillary services. Since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published its March 1995 proposed rule on open-access transmission, ancillary services have been an important topic. Ancillary services are those functions performed by the equipment and people that generate, control, transmit, and distribute electricity to support the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery. These services cost US electricity consumers about $12 billion a year. This article examines the functions performed by the equipment and people that generate, control, transmit, and distribute electricity to support the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery.},
doi = {10.1109/MPER.1996.506375},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/264198}, journal = {IEEE Power Engineering Review},
number = 6,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
}