Legal Opinion
Illinois Commerce Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 2013No. 11-3421, 11-3430, 11-3584, 11-3585, 11-3586, 11-3620, 11-3787, 11-3795, 11-3806, 12-1027PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Control of more than half the nation’s electrical grid is divided among seven Regional Transmission Organizations, as shown in Figure 1. These are voluntary associations of utilities that own electrical transmission lines interconnected to form a regional grid and that agree to delegate operational control of the grid to the association. See 18 C.F.R. § 35.34®, (k)(l)(i); Midwest ISO Transmission Owners v. FERC, 373 F.3d 1361, 1363-65 (D.C.Cir. 2004). Power plants that do not own any part of the grid but generate electricity transmitted by it are also members of these…
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