Unbundling electricity: Ancillary services
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
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.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 264198
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Power Engineering Review, Journal Name: IEEE Power Engineering Review Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 16; ISSN 0272-1724; ISSN IPERDV
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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