Who is responsible for ensuring reliable power?
There are many entities that play a role in ensuring the reliability of the North American power grid. There are system planners, generation and transmission operators, grid overseers, and regional reliability organizations that monitor these parts of the power system for compliance with standards. Some other organizations that play a reliability role continuously monitor the transmission and generation network over wide geographic areas to insure reliable and efficient operations. On a local level, power generation and transmission companies operate their plants and lines and monitor their equipment to ensure that it is operating safely and reliably. NERC and eight regional reliability organizations in North America, including MRO, work with members of the power industry to benchmark best practices, develop standards for operation of the power grid, and monitor compliance with those standards. If it is found that standards are violated, we develop a plan to bring the member organizati
