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Now Available! A series of guides explaining the operating procedures, protocols, and requirements of five key regional transmission organizations:
- PJM Interconnection
- New York ISO
- ISO New England
- ERCOT
- Midwest ISO
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The Alliance of Energy Suppliers, as a division of the Edison Electric Institute, is uniquely positioned to bring the generator perspective before a broad audience of electric power interests.
About the Alliance
Rules and Regulations: The Generator Perspective
The Alliance of Energy Suppliers is the electric generation industry’s most powerful advocate. As an active and highly effective voice before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other agencies, the Alliance promotes regulatory policy that allow generators to fairly compete in new markets.
Fuel Supply
Promoting policies that will assure the availability of an adequate and diverse fuel supply, encourage efficiency, and provide incentives for the development of alternative fuels are major initiatives of the Alliance.
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Fuel Diversity – Encouraging policies assuring the availability of a diverse fuel supply to include coal, nuclear power, hydro, wind, solar, natural gas, and other fuels as they become available.
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Natural Gas Quality/Interchangeability – Leading industry efforts to ensure that changes in the gas composition are consistent with generator's needs.
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Fuel Switching – Supporting the permitting and development of facilities that have “dual-fuel” capabilities.
Environment
Environmental regulations that preserve and protect environmental quality while ensuring regulatory certainty for the power industry are key objectives of the Alliance and EEI.
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Climate Change – Promoting voluntary initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a partnership with the Department of Energy, “Power Partners”, to address climate change.
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Multi-Emissions – Supporting a comprehensive approach that will produce major cuts in new emissions, streamline regulatory process, and maintain fuel diversity.
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Water - Partnering with government agencies to minimize adverse environmental impacts and to promote the sustainable development of aquatic habitats.
Managing Risk and Investor Relations
EEI and the Alliance are leading a broad-based initiative to encourage capital investment and increase liquidity in the marketplace.
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Boards of Directors Training – Promoting corporate responsibility through programs to educated the directors of member companies on critical issues impacting their industry.
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Energy Trading – Fostering structural, regulatory, and legislative solutions that encourage the use of trading.
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Risk Management – Encouraging the efficient management of resources through appropriate hedging of risk in energy markets. Promoting risk management practices through education of state regulators and other policy makers.
Products and Services
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Generation Fuels - 2007 Market Developments
The report tracks relevant information about the different fuels markets (coal, gas, nuclear, renewables and oil) for the previous year. It includes data and analyses on generation output and fuel price trends, as well as the most prominent factors behind them, such as domestic production, imports, global markets, and policy developments.
- Siting Power Plants: A Guide to the Permitting Process – state-specific step-by-step guides to the permitting process
- State Generation & Transmission Siting Directory: Agencies, Contacts, and Regulations – a resource containing regulatory contacts and summary information for siting of generation and transmission facilities in 50 states
- Wholesale Markets Guide – outlines the operating procedures, regulations, and market rules for regional transmission organizations (electronic subscription)
- The Master Power Contract – streamlines establishing a trading relationship; provides "real time" credit provisions; standardizes product definitions; and focuses traders on the transaction's basic negotiable elements, e.g., price, quantity, location, and duration.
- Master Netting Agreement – helps companies mitigate credit risk and increase liquidity. This standardized contract, available for use by all companies involved in energy trading, allows trading counterparties to "net" their collateral requirements when making wholesale power trades and offset positive balances of one transaction with negative balances of another Master Power Contract.
- Electric Industry Renewable Energy: Growth and Challenges – this guide provides an overview of recent trends and challenges presented by renewable energy sources, specifically wind power, bioenergy, geothermal energy, hydrogen power, solar energy, hydropower, and tidal power. While emphasizing the multiple benefits derived from renewable energy sources, the guide also focuses on a variety of key issues, such as federal funding policies, renewable portfolio standards and energy credits, transmission and distribution, as well as electric utility support. Each section comprises a description of the resource, its proportion of the total U.S. renewable energy sector, as well as the technologies and challenges associated with each resource. The final section also offers a brief overview of additional clean energy resources for generation, such as pulverized coal combustion, gasification technologies, and nuclear energy, among others.
Committees
The Alliance encourages members to participate in our EEI committees and task forces.
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Energy Supply Executive Advisory Committee (ESEAC) provides policy guidance and input to the EEI Energy Supply Policy Committee on the host of policy issues that impact energy suppliers and power marketers. The ESEAC in turn, provides guidance to the working group Energy Supply Policy Task Force. In its work, the Committee also provides advice and assistance to other EEI committees in areas relating to energy supply.
Task Forces
EEI Staff Contacts
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Jeffery Dennis, Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs, jdennis@eei.org or 202-508-5098
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Lola Infante, Manager, Generation Fuels & Market Analysis, linfante@eei.org or 202-508-5133
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- Karen Obenshain, Director, Fuels, Technology & Commercial Policy, kobenshain@eei.org or 202-508-5223
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