Program areas at EPSA
Regulatory affairs:regulatory affairs is responsible for implementing and articulating the Association's positions before regulatory agencies, primarily the federal energy regulatory commission (ferc). Policy issues related to the regulation and development of competitive wholesale electricity markets are addressed.
State issues:state issues involves monitoring competitive electricity policy developments at the state and regional levels, including matters before the national Association of regulatory utility commissioners that overlaps the Association's emphasis on federal policy issues. State issues coordinates with state and regional partner organizations and coalitions as well as selectively engages directly in high priority states.
Legislative affairs:legislative affairs is responsible for implementing and articulating the federal legislative positions of the Association as well as keeping Association members informed about federal legislative issues of interest. It also oversees the congressional lobbying efforts of the Association.
Defense of markets:the defense of markets effort was a policy driven campaign to reinforce the benefits of competitive markets to deliver lower cost, lower emission Power to customers. This effort was undertaken in response to a growing chorus of voices that questioned the value of competitive markets and even encouraged their termination in favor of cost-of-service regulation and a return to the models used previously to deliver Power but were found to be wanting which gave rise to competitive markets more than 2 decades ago.
Competitive Power summit:an annual event in which industry leaders and experts participate in panels and programming that highlight the importance of competitive markets and their roles in keeping reliability at the forefront of the energy system transformation.
Reliability effort: a campaign to amplify the importance of system planning and medium- and long-term outcomes, the resources needed to enable reliability, and how policymakers and regulators should think about how their policies impact resource adequacy and reliability challenges.