TY - CONF T1 - The Regional Transmission Organization Report Card: Wholesale Electricity Markets and RTO Performance Evaluation Y1 - 2006 A1 - National Rural Electric Cooperative Assocation AB -

Excerpt from the Executive Summary:

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) commissioned Christensen Associates Energy Consulting, LLC (CA Energy Consulting) to objectively examine the performance of Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and the markets they administer. This report is the first of a series of “RTO Report Cards” that will track the performance of major functional elements of selected RTOs over time. This initial Report Card focuses on the performance of the PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) RTO and the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (Midwest ISO). The Report assesses performance of RTOs and their wholesale markets, and only indirectly by implication examines their retail impacts. Consequently, the Report’s references to “customers” are generally to wholesale customers of RTO services and RTO market participants such as loadserving entities (LSEs), generators, and transmission customers, not to retail end-use customers. Nevertheless, what transpires in the wholesale markets ultimately impacts retail consumers, so any costs or savings produced by the creation of RTOs and their markets will ultimately be borne or enjoyed by retail consumers to some degree.

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