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Company Name Phone Links
Alberta Electric System Operator Janice Coffin 403-539-2462 News
California ISO Oscar Hidalgo 916-342-8603 News
Electric Reliability Council of Texas Christy Penders 512-791-3450 News
ISO New England Matt Kakley 413-535-3821 News
Midcontinent ISO Mike Deising 317-450-4855 News
New York ISO Zack Hutchins 518-356-7325 News
PJM Interconnection Susan Buehler 610-666-4215 News
Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator Andrew Dow 416-506-2823 News
Southwest Power Pool Derek Wingfield 501-614-3394 News

News Releases

The IRC occasionally issues news releases to announce studies, reports, and papers it publishes on issues that affect ISOs and RTOs as a whole.

Report from North America’s electricity system operators examines impact of emerging technologies

ISO/RTO Council (IRC) report examines how the future of the North American power grid depends on effectively adding renewables to the grid, the accuracy and availability of data from “behind-the-meter” resources, and coordinating these distributed energy resources at the grid operator level to preserve reliability.

2010 IRC Metrics Report – Presentation to FERC – Press Release

The CEOs of the six independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today appeared before the Commission to discuss the 2010 ISO/RTO Metrics Report filed in December. The metrics report provided FERC with extensive data on grid operations and power markets in their regions.

2010 IRC Performance Metrics Report Press Release

The independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today submitted to FERC a metrics report providing extensive data on grid operations and power markets in their regions.