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Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992, a wholesale generator that is exempted from certain financial and legal restrictions specified in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935

Operating a system so that the single, most severe contingency is sustained without causing instabilities, voltage collapse or overloads

The price paid by a customer who switches to another electricity supplier

A specific contiguous electrical path from a point of receipt to a point of delivery for which transfer rights have been contracted

A fee paid by an independent power producer or its customer to use a transmission company's system

Costs that are not factored into ("internalized") electricity generation, such as the environmental costs of additional pollution

An electric system or systems bounded by interconnection metering and telemetry that controls generation to maintain its interchange schedule with other areas and the frequency regulation of its interconnection

An electric system's ability (maintenance, load following, planning for future needs, etc.) to supply the aggregate electrical demand and energy requirements of its customers at all times

the independent agency within the United States Department of Energy that regulates the transmission and wholesale sales of electricity in interstate commerce

A rural electric cooperative that generates or buys wholesale electricity to distribute to its customers in a service territory that may cover a wide geographical area; a cooperative is owned and operated by its members and may offer additional services