Ancillary Services/Interconnected Operations Services (IOS)

The services necessary to effect a transfer of electricity between purchasing and selling entities that transmission providers must include in their open access transmission tariffs; IOSs are the voluntary services that transmission providers may offer to their customers (FERC Order 888, April 24, 1996). Ancillary services include regulation and frequency response; reactive supply and voltage control from generating sources, economic dispatch, and the like