Regional_Entity
Regional entity
Regional electric energy reliability organization
A regional entity (RE) in the North American power transmission grid is a regional organization representing all segments of the electric industry: electric utilities (investor-owned, cooperatives, state, regional, and municipal), federal agencies, independent power producers, power market operators, and end-users of the energy.[2] North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) delegates to REs authority to enforce reliability standards (which NERC has throughout the contiguous United States),[3] collectively REs, together with NERC, are known as an "ERO Enterprise" (from the Electric Reliability Organization).[4]