Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§824w Joint boards on economic dispatch

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE › § 824w

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must form regional joint boards to study "security constrained economic dispatch" and will choose which regions each board covers. It will ask each state to name a representative and will appoint one of its commissioners to chair each board. Each board only studies how that operating mode affects reliability and costs and makes recommendations. Within 1 year after August 8, 2005, the Commission must send a report to Congress with the boards' recommendations and may combine recommendations from more than one board, including any joint suggestions for changes to laws or rules.

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Title 16, §824w

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(a)The Commission shall convene joint boards on a regional basis pursuant to section 824h of this title to study the issue of security constrained economic dispatch for the various market regions. The Commission shall designate the appropriate regions to be covered by each such joint board for purposes of this section.

(b)The Commission shall request each State to nominate a representative for the appropriate regional joint board, and shall designate a member of the Commission to chair and participate as a member of each such board.

(c)The sole authority of each joint board convened under this section shall be to consider issues relevant to what constitutes “security constrained economic dispatch” and how such a mode of operating an electric energy system affects or enhances the reliability and affordability of service to customers in the region concerned and to make recommendations to the Commission regarding such issues.

(d)Within 1 year after August 8, 2005, the Commission shall issue a report and submit such report to the Congress regarding the recommendations of the joint boards under this section and the Commission may consolidate the recommendations of more than one such regional joint board, including any consensus recommendations for statutory or regulatory reform.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 824w

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73